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Karnataka
By Our Special Correspondent
Replying to P.Ramiah during Question Hour in the Legislative Council today, the minister said all ongoing projects in the Cauvery Basin were scheduled to be completed by 2005. The State Government, as announced in the recent Budget, would constitute the Cauvery Neeravari Nigam to raise funds for the projects. The State Government was confident of raising the funds, he said. The major irrigation projects in the Cauvery Basin were the Kabini, the Harangi, the D.Devaraj Urs Canal (Varuna Canal), the Hemavathi, and the modernisation of the Krishnaraja Sagar Project. The medium projects were the Taraka, the Uduthorahalla, the Chiklihole, the Manchanabele, the Arkavathi, the Vatehole project, the Yagachi, and the Igluru Barrage. In reply to a question by Basavaraj Patil Itagi for constructing a barrage across the Krishna, near Raichur, Mr. Patil said the construction of the barrage would be taken up on priority. The barrage would provide drinking water to around 50 villages apart from meeting the water requirement of the Raichur Thermal Power Station. From the proposed location of the barrage, the Krishna traversed a few kilometres downstream before entering Andhra Pradesh where the Jurala Project was being constructed. Mr. Patil said the State Government was conducting a survey to ascertain the places where barrages could be constructed across some of the major rivers flowing in the State. For the Raichur barrage, the Government would hold discussions with the RTPS and request it to undertake the project or at least share the costs with the Irrigation Department. Replying to Ramachandra Gowda (BJP), the minister said the Government was hopeful that the Union Government would constitute a tribunal to determine the sharing of surplus waters in the Krishna.
The Bachawat Tribunal had itself awarded 50 per cent of the surplus waters to Karnataka. However, the Supreme Court had recently directed that the Centre constitute a tribunal on sharing the surplus waters. Members of the BJP, led by the Opposition leader, D.H.Shankaramurthy, staged a walkout at the fag end of the Question Hour when the Agriculture Minister, V.S.Koujalgi, sought more time to reply to a question pertaining to suicide by farmers. Mr. Koujalgi said he had to collect details from the Home Department and ascertain whether the suicides were because of crop loss or due to other reasons. It was only after that the department concerned could pay the compensation of Rs. 1 lakh to the kith and kin of the victims. The BJP's charge against the Government was that the whole effort was aimed at hoodwinking innocent farmers.
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