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Karnataka minister reviews Yadgir drought and drinking water crisis
Karnataka's Minister for Medical Education and Yadgir district in-charge, Sharan Prakash Patil, chaired a drought review meeting in Yadgir on 5 August, his first visit to the district since Chief Minister D.K.…
Karnataka's Minister for Medical Education and Yadgir district in-charge, Sharan Prakash Patil, chaired a drought review meeting in Yadgir on 5 August, his first visit to the district since Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar tasked him with assessing the drought situation, The Hindu reported. Patil directed Revenue and Agriculture officials to submit a crop-damage report and ordered nodal officers at the district and taluk levels to handle drinking-water complaints. He said the Chief Minister had sanctioned Rs 1 crore for emergency borewells and reverse-osmosis plants, and Zilla Panchayat CEO Lavish Ordia said 33 villages were being supplied from 45 rented borewells. Agriculture department official Ratendranath Sugur reported a 25 percent rainfall deficit from June to August, with 75 percent sowing completed. Four MLAs criticised the power utility GESCOM over repeated outages and delayed transformer repairs, and Patil gave GESCOM a 24-hour deadline to fix the grid.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Patil's directions, the sanctioned borewell funding and the 24-hour deadline he set for GESCOM are concrete steps ordered at this one meeting, but a review meeting's instructions do not by themselves confirm that water supply, power or crop relief actually improved afterward, only that officials were told to act. The rainfall and sowing figures Sugur gave describe conditions in Yadgir only up to early August, a stage in an unfolding drought that moves on in the following weeks. A heated exchange in which Gurmitkal MLA Sharanagowda Kandkur complained that Zilla Panchayat CEO Lavish Ordia and Panchayat Development Officers were not answering calls drew Ordia's reply that action against false attendance by PDOs had sharply reduced complaints. Patil's deadline gave GESCOM 24 hours from the 5 August meeting to resolve all power grid issues and restore steady electricity.
Source: www.thehindu.com
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