Municipal Administration and Minority Affairs Minister Qamarul Islam said that the Kalaburagi City Corporation has approved the action plan for Rs. 50 crore released as the first instalment of the third tranche of the CM’s special package.
Presiding over a review meeting to study the drinking water problem here on Friday, Mr. Qamarul said that the government had decided to release Rs. 100 crore for tier II cities to improve infrastructure.
As per the approved action plan, Rs 21.19 crore has been earmarked for underground drainage (UGD) connections, Rs. 10 crore for widening and improving the main road from Sardar Vallabhai Patel Chowk to Jagat Circle and the remaining for various other development works.
The meeting was attended by Gulbarga South MLA Dattatreya Patil, Mayor Bhimredddy Patil , chairman of the Kalaburagi Urban Development Authority (KUDA) Mohammad Azgar Chulbul, Regional Commissioner Aditya Amlan Biswas and other senior officials from the Revenue department, City Corporation and Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board.
Mr. Dattatreya Patil said that most of the localities in the city faced severe shortage of water and the corporation and the Water Board had failed to tackle it.
While four wards in the city corporation are covered under the 24x7 drinking water supply scheme, 25 were being provided drinking water on alternative days and the remaining 26 wards were provided water once in three days and at times once in four or five days. Mr. Qamarul said that the water board should ensure that all the localities are provided drinking water uniformly on alternative days till the situation improved and there should not be any discrimination in the supply of drinking water to the localities.
