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Urban development authority to allot 6,561 sites in Shimoga
By Our Special Correspondent
SHIMOGA, Jan. 24. The Shimoga Urban Development Authority (SUDA) has prepared a master plan to allot 6,561 sites in the new layout to be developed at Alkola, Malligenahalli and Sominakoppa in an area of 631 acres.
Speaking to presspersons here on Wednesday, the SUDA Chairman, M.Nagendra Rao, said the land for this layout had been acquired and efforts were on to develop it on the Chandigarh model. The Government had accorded its approval for this layout.
Besides, he said, it was proposed to develop other layouts at Tevarachatnahalli and the second phase of Urugaduru. While 1,068 sites would be made available in the new layout at Tevarachatnahalli where the SUDA had acquired 98.24 acres of land, it was proposed to allot 600 sites at Urugaduru where it had acquired 52.25 acres.
Mr. Rao said the SUDA had allotted 27 public utility sites to various organisations, adding that 38 sites in this category were vacant. The Underground Development (UGD) work at the Gopalagowda area, approved by the Government, was being taken up at a cost of Rs. 1.45 crore.
Work on the proposed swimming pool in the Gopalagowda area for which the SUDA had earmarked seven acres was being delayed because of the ''needless'' queries by the Sports and Youth Services Department.
He said the Union Government had offered to meet 50 per cent of the expenditure on the swimming pool estimated to cost Rs. 1.80 crore, while the rest would be shared by the SUDA and the Shimoga Zilla Panchayat.
Mr. Rao said the SUDA had taken up various works at a cost of Rs. 9.38 crore in the past two years since he became the Chairman. It had allotted as many as 518 housing sites in Shimoga and Bhadravati in the past two years.
He said that in response to the request made by the swamiji of the Adichunchanagiri Math it had been decided to entrust 100 public parks in various parts of the city to the math for their maintenance. It was proposed to develop the public tank at Navile into a sports complex, he said, and added that it been decided to hand over 20 acres of the 38-acre tank to the cricket player, Brijesh Patel, to run a cricket training institute there.
To a question, he said the tank could not be retained for irrigation in view of the irrigation potential created in the surrounding area from the Tunga channel. The tank was likely to be encroached upon if it was not put to use.
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