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The State authorities issued directions to officials to instantly behaviour a survey successful the backwater areas of KRS reservoir and instrumentality indispensable actions to wide the alleged encroachments.
The government’s directions, issued connected the instructions of Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, who is besides the Minister for Water Resources, mention a ailment by Srirangapatna MLA A.B. Ramesh Bandisiddegowda and MLC Dinesh Gooligowda regarding the expanding fig of encroachment cases successful the backwater areas of KRS reservoir and the request for their contiguous removal.
Accordingly, Mr. Shivakumar has directed that a survey beryllium conducted instantly truthful that the encroachments are removed and the stones beryllium erected to demarcate the bound of KRS backwater areas.
A squad headed by Assistant Commissioner of Pandavapura Sub Division has been constituted to verify the records, behaviour an on-site inspection, hole a representation and taxable a elaborate study wrong 15 days.
The squad besides comprises Deputy Director of Land Records, Mandya, Executive Engineer of Cauvery Neeravari Nigam Limited, Srirangapatna, tahsildars of Srirangapatna and Pandavapura taluks, and the Assistant Director of Land Records of Srirangapanta and Pandavapura taluks.
Mr. Bandisiddegowda and Mr. Gooligowda, successful their caller missive to the Deputy Chief Minister, said KRS reservoir, built betwixt 1911 and 1931, is 2,621 metres agelong and 111 feet wide astatine the base. It is 130 feet tall.
The reservoir has a full retention capableness of 49.452 tmc and the h2o dispersed covers 130 sq. km with a perimeter of 320 km.
The reservoir provides irrigation facilities to astir 2.76 lakh acres of bid country successful Mandya and Mysuru district, too supplying drinking h2o to Mysuru city, Bengaluru, and different towns portion besides providing h2o to powerfulness procreation units, the missive said.
Backwaters
The backwater country of KRS reservoir covers 26,640 acres, the duo said portion pointing retired that it has been observed that encroachments had occurred successful these areas.
The 2 legislators alleged that landowners adjoining the reservoir were encroaching, by the day, upon authorities onshore successful the backwater zones of Srirangapatna, Pandavapura, and K.R. Pet taluk of Mandya territory and K.R. Nagar and Hunsur taluks of Mysuru district. Luxury resorts and constructions were expanding successful the backwater regions, they alleged.
Such an encroachment volition trim the retention capableness of the reservoir, adversely affecting the irrigation to thousands of acres of cultivation onshore successful tail-end areas successful Malavalli and Maddur taluks, portion besides creating drinking h2o shortages successful these areas, they said portion seeking a associated survey of the areas.
