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A committee headed by the Assistant Commissioner of Pandavapura Sub-Division successful Mandya territory volition soon statesman survey enactment to wide encroachments connected KRS backwaters.
Mandya Deputy Commissioner Kumar, who chaired a gathering of the committee successful Mandya connected January 6, instructed officials to instrumentality indispensable enactment for the extortion of the backwaters from encroachment.
The survey enactment was ordered aft A.B. Ramesh Bandisidde Gowda, Srirangapatna MLA, and Dinesh Gooli Gowda, MLC, successful a missive to Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, who besides holds the Water Resources portfolio, highlighted the expanding instances of encroachment determination and sought their removal.
Mr. Shivakumar issued instructions to instantly region the encroachments and erect bound stones, aft which a committee headed by the Assistant Commissioner of Pandavapura Sub-Division was constituted.
The gathering chaired by the Mandya Deputy Commissioner connected January 6 took enactment of the information that KRS dam is 1 of the State’s large h2o resources and is indispensable for drinking h2o supply, agriculture, and powerfulness procreation for respective districts, including Mysuru and Mandya.
“Unauthorised encroachments connected the backwater country of the dam are reducing the reservoir’s retention capableness and expanding the hazard of flooding during monsoon. This is causing harm to nationalist spot and adversely affecting ecological balance,” said an authoritative connection issued astatine the meeting.
“Therefore, arsenic it is highly indispensable to instantly place the nonstop locations, extent, and quality of encroachments, instructions were issued to the Water Resources Department and Land Records Department to jointly commence survey enactment without delay, intelligibly demarcate the boundaries betwixt authorities onshore and backstage onshore done the survey, papers illegally occupied areas, and taxable an close report,” the connection added.
The gathering was attended by the Deputy Director of Land Records, the Assistant Commissioner of Pandavapura Sub-Division, Executive engineers of the Cauvery Neeravari Nigam Limited (CNNL), and the tahsildars of Srirangapatna, Pandavapura, and K.R. Pete taluks.
