From special correspondent

Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, Feb 28: Coastal Dakshina Kannada district will get one more taluk with State Government deciding to create the new taluk of Mulki as part of the measures to take the administration closer to the doorsteps of the people.

Revenue Minister R V Deshpande, who addressed a news conference in Bengaluru on Thursday, said the State Cabinet has approved the formation of nine new taluks, including Kushalanagara and Ponnampet in Kodagu district.

The new taluks are: Harohalli (Ramanagara), Chelur (Chikkaballapura), Theradal (Bhagalkot), Kalasa (Chikkamagaluru), Alamela (Vijayapura), Mulki (Dakshina Kannada) and Yeragatti (Belagavi district).

Deshpande said that the previous Congress government had taken decision for the formation of the new taluks. The minister said the Stare Government has decided to resurvey of lands and properties in the State by employing state-of-the-art technologies, including that of use of drone and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), by roping in Survey of India.

The state government has entered into an agreement with the Survey of India to resurvey and properties.

In the first phase, it has been decided to conduct the resurvey of land and properties in five districts - Tumakuru, Hassan, Uttara Kannada, Belagavi, Ramanagara and Bengaluru city.

While the Union government would spend Rs110 crore to conduct survey in five rural district, the cost of Rs 15 crore for survey work in Bengaluru city would be borne by the State Government.

Girish Kumar, director general, survey of India, said, Karnataka is the pioneer state to deploy drone and UAVs for survey work in the country”. The first phase work would complete in two years, he said.

Deshapande made it clear that the state government has not diluted the 2013 Land Acquisition Act, which would ensure fair compensation to be payable to the land losers.