Foundation stone laid for ₹47.85-crore project to draw water from Khachur Barrage for Sedam in Karnataka

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Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil participating successful  a ground-breaking ceremonial  for a drinking h2o  task  successful  Sedam connected  November 11, 2025.

Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil participating successful a ground-breaking ceremonial for a drinking h2o task successful Sedam connected November 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Minister for Medical Education and Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Sharan Prakash Patil laid the instauration chromatic for a caller drinking h2o proviso task to gully h2o from the Khachur Barrage for Sedam municipality successful Karnataka, connected November 11.

After performing the bhoomi puja astatine Survey No. 705, Ashraya Colony, Dr. Patil said the project, being implemented nether the Centrally sponsored AMRUT 2.0 strategy astatine an estimated outgo of ₹47.85 crore, would supply a imperishable solution to the town’s long-pending drinking h2o problem.

“At present, Sedam depends connected h2o from the Sattapatnahalli barrage, which often faces proviso issues. This caller task volition guarantee each nonmigratory gets 135 litres of cleanable h2o regular wrong the adjacent one-and-a-half years,” the Minister said.

As portion of the project, 5 caller overhead h2o tanks are being constructed crossed the municipality – astatine Ashraya Colony, Chincholi Road, and Kalaburagi Road, among different locations – to heighten retention and proviso efficiency. Dr. Patil instructed contractors and officials to guarantee high-quality execution of the work.

Highlighting assorted ongoing developmental initiatives, helium said the Sedam Taluk Hospital’s furniture capableness has been accrued to 150, and ₹5 crore further grants person been sanctioned for its upgradation. “Under Kalyana Patha and Pragathi Patha projects, roads connecting Sedam person been redeveloped astatine a full outgo of ₹500 crore,” helium added.

The Minister said his extremity is to make Kalaburagi into a ‘Health Hub’ of Kalyana Karnataka, and expressed restitution implicit the functioning of Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Super Specialty, and Trauma Care Centre and different premier wellness facilities successful Kalaburagi, urging radical to utilise them alternatively of turning to backstage hospitals.

Dr. Patil said that strengthening of the underground drainage web successful Sedam is underway, with lone 800 metres of enactment remaining nether the ₹56-crore project, which besides includes a Sewage Treatment Plant (STP).

Executive Engineer Narasimha Reddy, Chief Officer Sanjeev Kumar, Assistant Commissioner Prabhu Reddy, Tahsildar Shreyank Dhanashree, Town Municipal Council president Virendra Rudanoor, vice-president Saizadabi, and respective others were present.

Published - November 12, 2025 10:17 americium IST

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