Udupi: Water supply restricted despite adequate resources: Raghupati Bhat


Udupi: Water supply restricted despite adequate resources: Raghupati Bhat

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Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (HB)

Udupi, Mar 14: Raghupati Bhat, former MLA of Udupi constituency on Thursday March 13 urged resolution of the water supply problem plaguing the city over the past few days.

He was addressing reporters during a spot inspection of Shirur and Baje dams organized by the Udupi BJP factfinding committee.

"People in the city have been suffering because of insufficient water supply over the past 10-15 days. In Baje and Shirur there are ample water resources, yet the municipality started limiting the supply. There is capacity to provide water round the clock till the end of May," he said.

Bhat also blamed the Congress party for the problem and alleged that it was a deliberate ploy. "In Baje, there is capacity to store 4.65 meters of water. In May 2012, they (administration) started water supply once in two days through eight pumps but now there is no need to cut down the water supply," he said.

"During the visit to Shirur and Baje dam with media persons, it was seen that the construction of the dam is not proper, it has some leakage issues. Dredging process should be stopped by the municipality as early as possible, otherwise localities of Baje will face severe water crisis. In the previous year, they had opened two gates but now they have not. Dredging work is still continuing and in the coming days they may face lots of problem due to this," said Prasanna Pandit of Shirur locality.

Suresh Naik, Sunitha Naik, taluk panchayat president were present and they also complained about drawbacks of the ruling party.

He further said that Shirur and Baje dams have enough of water sources, so there is no need to worry about insufficiency of water supply and instead there is a need to educate the public.

“The whole process itself shows that Swarna Project has failed and the municipality's functioning with regard to water supply is condemnable. It is a political conspiracy,” he added. M R Pai of BJP factfinding committee, Dinkar Shetty, Vasanti Shetty, Geetha Shet, Rashmitha Balakrishna, Ramprasad Sharma, and  Kiran Kumar were present.

Later, the city municipality conducted a meeting at Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC).

During the meet, CMC president Yuvaraj said that there is a lack of pressure pumps and promised to stop dredging work in order to to meet the demands of the public.

He said, “We have taken action to supply water to high areas like Rajivnagar, Palekatta, Bachanabailu, and Duglipadavu."

The ruling party said that there are 17,000 water connections of which 7,000 are new. Yuvaraj said the opposition party is trying to mislead the people.

Amrita Krishnamurthy, municipality vice-president, Selina Karkada, Vijay Manchi, and Ramesh Kanchan were present.

  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Katapadi/Bangalore

    Sat, Mar 15 2014

    BJP to look back what they had done when they were in power before commenting about the present administration.Stop commenting and learn to live with reality.Thanq.

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  • vinayak prabhu, mangalore

    Fri, Mar 14 2014

    @lukas. Bjp is just 25 year old party. How did they rule udupi for 60 years?

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  • Dr Kiran Acharya, Manipal

    Fri, Mar 14 2014

    Commenters please note: Swarna stage I supplied water to Udupi and neighboring places for four decades. Swarna Stage II too is designed for next few decades. However, due to the blanket ban on sand mining, even the silt in the reservoir has not been removed. Moreover, some Ruler-Contractor lobbies in Udupi want to spend thousands of rupees to bring elusive Varahi water to Udupi! To prove the necessity for such an absurd project all kinds of sabotage has been planned...not pumping water regularly, not filling the ground level reservoir at Manipal etc., But to write off Swarna water project as useless, would be malicious. Proper maintenance of pumping station, de silting the reservoir can make it useful for few decades, at a much lesser cost than Varahi project.

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  • Dr Kiran Acharya, Manipal

    Fri, Mar 14 2014

    ...Varahi will cost thousands of crores of rupees

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  • lukas, malpe

    Fri, Mar 14 2014

    BJP ruled almost 60 years in Udupi municipality, but they failed in providing drinking water.now they make politics in every issue like widening Roads,even so many houses having illegul water connection which they took direct without meter.

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  • rahul shetty, udupi

    Fri, Mar 14 2014

    Bhat talking nonsense , where was he before when he had his own municipality under power ,? those days also water crises we had, so it is same as before and making poor people fool when the time of vote! more shame for him to allowing corrupt lady who got the seat to contest from udupi

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  • Pavan Kumar, Mangalore

    Fri, Mar 14 2014

    Oh yeaya... You are there welcome back, you have many messages in your Inbox unanswered..during your absence so many things happen... Please log on regularly. Some request is waiting your ans...........!!!!!! Raghupathi Ragahva Raja.......!!!!!!

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  • Seby, Kinnigoli

    Fri, Mar 14 2014

    Jab jago tab savera

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  • Naiem, Uchila

    Fri, Mar 14 2014

    So finally Bhat is free from making movies & started to think of water ! Good ....

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  • ajith shetty, katapady

    Sat, Mar 15 2014

    Present MLA is silent, so former MLA is interested . Bhat is a man of development.

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