Minister directs officers to ensure supply of quality water

Urban Development Minister BS Suresh has directed the Raichur City Municipal Corporation officials to ensure provision of quality drinking water to citizens.

He was addressing a development process meeting at the District Administrative Building in Raichur on Wednesday.

The state government is responsible for providing pure and quality drinking water to the people and this should be the top priority. He said that a grant of at least ₹ 40 lakh should be allocated for water supply, repair of pipelines and necessary maintenance.

Upon the Minister receiving information about the supply and quality of water, the officers explained to the Minister that drinking water was supplied after frequent necessary inspections were carried out in a laboratory at the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS).

Corporation Commissioner Jubin Mohapatra said significant progress has been made in collecting taxes under CMC limits due.

Mr. Suresh called the officer concerned and suggested immediate steps to appoint 75 pourakarmikas in Raichur CMC when Deputy Commissioner Nitish K. raised this issue and said that there was a proposal to appoint required pourakarmikas since the upgradation of CMC.

The Minister specifically directed to clear encroachments on the company’s properties and ensure that such encroachments do not occur in future.

Highlighting the shortage in drinking water supply, MLA Shivaraj Patil appealed to the Urban Development Minister to prepare an action plan to provide additional 20 MLD water to the existing supply of 52 MLD to meet the increasing demand of 3.20 lakh population.

He also urged the Minister to distribute e-Khatas to slum dwellers as Raichur city has 36 slums, the highest number after Mysuru.

MLA Basanagouda Turvihal, Rajshekhar Ramswamy, Police Inspector Puttamadaiah, Santoshi Rani, Srikrishna and other officers were present.