Date:09/02/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/02/09/stories/2007020922840400.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Plan to prevent water contamination

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Lok Adalat was on Thursday informed by the Bruhut Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Bangalore Development Authority, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board and other civic agencies that they had drawn up a comprehensive plan to prevent water contamination in and around villages adjacent to the Vrushabhavati, K and C and Hebbal valleys. The Lok Adalat Bench of Justice K.L. Manjunath and member Yellappa Reddy was dealing with a petition by the Bellandur Panchayat seeking supply of potable water.

Secretary of Urban Development Department Lakshmi Venkatachalam said the BBMP, KSPCB, BDA, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewarage Board had met and chalked out a short-term and long-term plan to tackle water contamination and provide clean water. BBMP Commissioner K. Jairaj, BDA Commissioner Shankarlinge Gowda, BWSSB Chairman N.C. Muniyappa, and KSPCB Chairman Sharat Chandra spoke.