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Water level touches 518.8 m. in Alamatti

By Our Staff Correspondent

BAGALKOT SEPT. 3. Bagalkot observed a bandh on Tuesday in support of the demand that the entire town should be shifted to Navanagar even as water level in the Alamatti Reservoir touched 518.8 metres. The maximum level of the reservoir is 519.6 metres.

While the inflow into the reservoir was 18,100 cusecs on Tuesday, the outflow was nil as all gates were closed.

In Bagalkot, which has now been partially submerged in the Alamatti backwaters, all shops, hotels, schools, and colleges remained closed in response to the bandh, called jointly by the Bagalkot Nagara Punaruthana Yuva Horata Samiti (BNPUHS) and the Bagalkot Nagara Vanijya Samiti (BNVS).

Various organisations in the town have been demanding that the entire town should be relocated at Navanagar, a rehabilitation township developed six km. away.

Their contention is that because of partial shifting of the town, the health of those who remained in the old city had been affected due to unhygienic conditions created by "stagnant" backwaters. In addition, education and commercial interest of the people of the new and the old towns had been put to jeopardy. The fall in population had adversely affected trade and business.

In Eighties, the Government decided to shift the entire town. However, following the Supreme Court's direction to restrict the height of the dam to 519.6 metres, the Government decided to evacuate only those whose dwellings were bellow the mean sea level (MSL) of 521 metres, because of which one-third of the habitation was shifted to Navanagar.

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