Heavy rainfall forecast for capital
The Hindu
District administration is taking precautionary measures to deal with exigencies
Faced with the possibility of heavy rainfall during the next few days, the district administration is taking precautionary measures to deal with exigencies.
The India Meteorological Department has sounded orange alert in the district for Wednesday and Thursday, and yellow alert for Friday.
District Collector Navjot Khosa, who convened an emergency meeting, has designated deputy collectors and the sub-collector as charge officers to coordinate disaster mitigation activities in each taluk.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.