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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (DV)
Mangaluru, Sep 11: “Eight primary health centers (PHC) have been completed and one centre is being built in Dakshina Kannada. In Udupi district one PHC was completed and eight more are in progress”, announced health minister, U T Khader.
He was addressing a press meet Circuit House here on Friday September 11.
Speaking about the work at Lady Goschen Hospital, he said, "The contractors have to finish the work on the ground floor of new the building as soon as possible and the hospital should shift to the new building within a month so that work on 60-bedded mother and child wing could be started at the hospital premises. If the work is not completed in a month, tender will be cancelled."
Though he called the press meet to announce the health department's plans, the media persons bombarded him with questions on Yettinahole right from the beginning, and the discussion went for over 30 muinutes.
"I will urge the government and the technical experts of the state major irrigation department to join the 'Yettinahole - Uttara Needi (Yettinahole - Give Answers)' campaign of 10 question posed by the Sahyadri Samrakshana Sanchaya and clear the doubts of the people of the Daskhina Kannada on the ongoing Yettinahole project," he said.
He also said that he will bring the present issue to the notice of chief minister and urge the state minister for major irrigation and his department experts to clear the doubts of the people Dakshina Kannada.
"No one can stop the Yettinahole project. This project was sanctioned in the assembly during the tenure of former chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda. Why were BJP representatives silent on the issue back then?" he said.
On the Bengaluru-Mangaluru national highway bandh and jail bharo planned at Uppinangady by Anti Netravati River Diversion Action committee, U T Khader said that the protesters should drop the protest till September 19, the deadline given to elected representatives to answer the 10 questions on the project posed by Sahyadri Samrakshana Sanchaya.
He also stressed that if doubts about the project were still not cleared by then, he would come out with proper action plan on the project.
He also informed that a detailed project report has been prepared to provide water from Challaghatta Valley of Bengaluru to Kolar district to meet its water demand. The administration has already given the nod for the project, he said.