News: Mounesh Vishwakarma
Pics: Karthik Studio, B C Road
Daijiworld Media Network – Bantwal (SP)
Bantwal, Aug 24: Chief Minister, B S Yeddyurappa, blamed lack of vision and planning on the part of the previous governments in the state, for the crippling power shortage the state has been suffering from. He informed that the state government has decided to buy 1,000 mw of power for the next three years to ensure that its citizens do not suffer for want of electricity.
He also promised to sanction a new mini Vidhan Soudha for the taluk within the next three months, and see that its construction is completed within the next 18 months.
He was speaking after laying foundation stones for Small and Medium Towns Development Programme, emergency treatment unit at the local community health centre, fire brigade and the local maintenance division of Mescom. He also promised to set up a new police subdivision with Bantwal and Beltangady as its centre, to hasten construction of a 100-bed hospital that is pending since long, release of a grant of five crore rupees for building foot bridges, and to sanction grant for building a check dam for drinking water purpose.
He also inaugurated the new building of community health centre at Vamadapadav in the taluk. He hailed the medical officer and staff of the hospital for working to build a government hospital that looks like a private nursing home, and a model for the others in the state to emulate.
MLA, B Ramanath Rai presided. Minister, Krishna J Palemar, MLCs, Ganesh Karnik and Kota Srinivas Poojary, MLAs, Yogish Bhat and U T Khader, Coastal Development Authority chairman, B Nagaraj Shetty, zilla panchayat president, Santosh Kumar Bhandary, taluk panchayat president, Babu M etc., were present at the programme.