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Deputy Chief Minister and Water Resources Minister D.K. Shivakumar has ordered the Deputy Commissioners of Mandya and Mysuru districts and the managing manager of the Cauvery Neeravari Nigama Ltd. (CNNL) to behaviour a survey and instantly wide encroachments successful the backwaters of the Krishnaraja Sagar and taxable a study aft marking the bound stones.
Water retention capableness of the reservoir reduced owing to the operation of luxury resorts and onshore encroachment successful the KRS backwaters. Congress legislators Ramesh Babu Bandisiddegowda and Dinesh Gooli Gowda person urged Mr. Shivakumar to contented strict instructions to the departments acrophobic to wide the encroachments.
In Srirangapatna, Pandavapur, K.R.. Pet taluks of Mandya territory and successful K.R. Nagar, Mysuru and Hunsur taluks of Mysuru district, landowners connected the borderline of the reservoir person encroached upon the onshore and constructed luxury resorts, the legislators had claimed.
As encroachments successful the backwater country person reduced h2o retention successful the dam, it has adversely affected thousands of farmers successful Malavalli and Maddur and the canal tail-end region.
The backwaters of the KRS are astir 26,640 acres, and astir 2.76 lakh acres of the backwater country of Mandya and Mysuru districts are being irrigated from the reservoir. The dam is besides a large root of drinking h2o for Mysuru metropolis and Bengaluru and different cities and towns successful the Cauvery basin.
