Hiriyur: Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar performed the bhoomi puja on Tuesday at Dindavara in Hiriyur taluk, Chitradurga district, for work to fill 16 lakes in Javanagondanahalli hobli and the Gayatri reservoir with water, and addressed the gathering, his media team said.
Ministers T. Raghumurthy, Basavanthappa, Eshwar Khandre, K.H. Muniyappa, Yathindra Siddaramaiah, 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. Board and corporation heads including 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 Harogere also attended.
Minor Irrigation Minister Dr Ajay Dharam Singh had said on Monday that the project to fill 16 tanks and the Gayathri Reservoir in the hobli would cost ₹244 crore. Tuesday’s note did not give the cost. It also did not say whether the work is connected to the separate work to fill 53 lakes for which the Chief Minister laid the foundation at Aimangala lake in Hiriyur later the same day.
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