Hiriyur: Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar laid the foundation stone on Tuesday for the construction of a new KSRTC bus station at Dharmapura in Hiriyur taluk, Chitradurga district, his media team said.
Ministers T. Raghumurthy, K.S. Basavanthappa, Eshwar Khandre, K.H. Muniyappa, Zameer Ahmed Khan, Dr Ajay Dharam Singh and H.C. Balakrishna, and T.B. Jayachandra, the Karnataka government’s special representative in Delhi, were present, according to the note.
MLAs B.G. Govindappa, Veerendra Puppy and Dr Kunigal Ranganath, Legislative Council member D.T. Srinivas, former MP B.N. Chandrappa, former minister H. Anjaneya, former MLA Purnima Srinivas and Congress leader Suhas Sudhakar were also among those present. Several heads of boards and corporations attended, including the district guarantee implementation authority chairman Shivanna, grape board chairman G. Yogesh Babu, Adi Jambava Development Corporation chairman G.S. Manjunath, Safai Karmachari Commission chairman P. Raghu, Bayaluseeme Area Development Board chairman H.T. Manjappa, Bhovi Corporation chairman Ramappa and Kadu Golla Development Corporation chairman Mahesh.
The note did not give the cost of the bus station or a completion date.
