Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Jan 1: The city corporation, at its general session held here on Thursday December 31 that was presided over by mayor Diwakar, decided to seek ten acres of land for supplying drinking water from the new dam at Adyar.

A new dam is being constructed downstream of the new dam at Thumbe. This will help augmentation of water storage between the two dams at Thumbe and Adyar. In order to create infrastructure needed to supply water from here to the city, city mayor Diwakar has written to Dakshina Kannada district deputy commissioner, seeking to hand over ten acres of land that is currently available at Adyar, to the city corporation. This was stated by whip, Premananda Shetty.

Mescom's express feeder line has been connected to the Thumbe pumping station. Still, unscheduled load shedding is resorted to frequently. Therefore, water supply to the city gets adversely affected, said Naveen D'Souza of the Congress. The mayor, who sought clarification from Mescom officials, asked them to resort to power cuts only after giving advance information to the water department of the corporation.

Deputy mayor Vedavathi, standing committee chairpersons Jagadish Shetty, Kiran Kumar, Sharath Kumar and Poornima were present.

Sudhir Shetty Kannur noted that the New Mangalore Port Trust president has volunteered to allot five acres of land to create facility to provide shelter to stray cattle and also to manage the facility. He said that this should be undertaken as soon as possible. Varun Chowta, who said that over a thousand cattle have been aimlessly moving around in Panambur area, therefore felt that opening of a cattle shelter for them is the need of the hour.

Abdul Ravoof, leader of the opposition, urged the corporation council to pass a resolution to rename the central railway station as Brahmashree Narayana Gurudev railway station. Sudhir Shetty Kannur pointed out that the Dalit Sangharsh Samithi has already demanded to name this station after Dr B R Ambedkar.He therefore expressed the view that it would be better if a suitable decision is taken after detailed discussion.