Speed up rehabilitation exercise, officials told
The Hindu
High-level meet discusses action plan
District Collector Ch. Hari Kiran on Saturday directed the officials to speed up the grant of the land-to-land component and rehabilitation exercise in the 53 habitations being affected by the Polavaram irrigation project in the East Godavari Agency.
A high-level meeting was convened here to prepare an action plan to speed up the pending works and construction of the Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R) colonies.
Mr. Hari Kiran directed the Rampachodavaram and Chintoor ITDA authorities to submit a report on the status of the R&R exercise.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.
The former BJP MLA of Udupi K. Raghupathi Bhat claimed on Saturday that he contesting the Legislative Council elections from South West Graduates’ Constituency as rebel candidate made the saffron party field its party leader C. T. Ravi in the biennial elections to the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly.