It was resolved at a meeting of the Shivamogga Zilla Panchayat here on Thursday that pure drinking water supply units should be set up in 31 villages during 2015-16.
K.B. Ashok, member, who raised the issue, said that pure drinking water supply units had been established by the government on the premises of the bus terminal of Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, McGann Hospital and Nehru Stadium here, recently. Similar units should be set up in villages that were facing acute drinking water shortage, he said.
Kalagodu Ratnakar, president of the zilla panchayat, in his reply, said that pure drinking water supply units would be established in one village each in all the 31 ZP constituencies. A proposal in this regard would be included in the action plan of the zilla panchayat for 2015-16, he said.
The zilla panchayat had identified 1,316 human habitats in the district as vulnerable to drinking water problem during this summer. A sum of Rs. 89,000 each had been provided by the zilla panchayat for all the 261 gram panchayats in the district to take up schemes related to drinking water supply immediately, he said.
Jyoti Muralidhar, president of Sagar Taluk Panchayat, said that high concentration of fluoride, nitrate and other chemicals had been noticed in the drinking water sources in 14 villages in Sagar taluk. Although the Sagar Taluk Panchayat had appealed to the zilla panchayat to set up pure drinking water supply units in these 14 villages, no action had been taken in this regard, so far.
Mr. Ratnakar promised to apprise the government of the problem. Shubha Krishnamurthy, member, requested the officials of the Department of Health and Family Welfare to provide the primary health centres in rural areas of Hosanagar tuluk with adequate quantity of anti-rabies and anti-snake bite vaccines.
The meeting paid homage to people who had died in Nepal recently due to earthquake.
R.K. Siddaramanna, M.B. Bhanuprakash and P.V. Krishna Bhat, MLCs, were present.
1,316 places in Shivamogga district identified as prone to drinking water crisis this summer
Water sources in 14 villages in Sagar taluk found to have high fluoride, nitrate content
