In the name of Allah, most gracious and most merciful.
I heard once a government officer saying “whenever the matter of costal twin districts (Udupi and Dk) comes in Vidana Souda answer is same (Bundivantarappa enadauru avare madkolthare) intelligent people they may do anything by their self.
This image of “Intelligent people” very smartly used by our politicians they use it as butter to apply on us whenever we talk about our requirements
Mangalore is the biggest city of Karnataka which is connected through all the three ways of transport. New Mangalore port is only major port of Karnataka. Even though the development of Mangalore is not as expected this is only because Mangalore development depends on its own strength Karnataka government not shown any interest towards development of Mangalore.
The only resources which flow to Mangalore from East is Netravathi River, here also our politicians started to show their smartness they think that intelligent people can live without water. They divert Netravathi River.
When it is asked with UT Khader he said ““There is nothing we can do now. Allocation was made in the last budget (for detailed project report) and it was approved by the Assembly. We have continued it by allocating money. The 13 MLAs from the area cannot oppose this. This is the reality. The train has already left. We cannot stop it,”
Mr. Khader said that the project should have been stopped when “our man” (D.V. Sadananda Gowda) was the Chief Minister. “Mr. Sadananda Gowda had all the powers. But he thought otherwise and allocated funds for the project.” “We need to continue it. The project cannot be shelved,”
And when it comes about minister in charge of D.K Mr. B. Ramanath Rai he says ““I am a Cabinet Minister and I cannot say anything on the Cabinet decision. I personally feel the diversion will lead to decrease in the ground water level in the areas where the river is flowing.” Mr. Rai said his concern about the project was same as that of a common man from the region. “But I cannot do anything. The previous government took a decision to go ahead with project,”
Prof S G Mayya, Chairman, Civil Engineering department, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Suratkal says
“Netravati’s origin is Yettinahole. Later Kumaradhara joins. There is severe water shortage for eight months in many parts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi. Netravati is the lifeline of these districts. I do not see any merit in the inter-basin water transfer scheme.
When the river water is going to Arabian Sea, why not be made use of it? For this, Mayya says such arguments doesn’t make any sense because when the coast is parched for eight months in a year, the government must be providing water to the downstream rather than planning to divert water.
“River water has to flow to sea. Why are we forgetting aquatic life? Fishermen will be in trouble if the inflow to sea reduces. The G S Paramashivaiah committee too had recommended diversion of rivers. I had raised many pertinent questions for which Paramashivaiah had no answer. Of course, technically there is nothing impossible. No doubt, Kolar and other districts have severe water shortage problem. But the situation in the coast is no better.”
Now the intelligent people are really helpless unless they wake up and stand firm against this.
"A risen voice or a written word is not less significant than a swing of sword"...Shafilovesu08
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
I heard once a government officer saying “whenever the matter of costal twin districts (Udupi and Dk) comes in Vidana Souda answer is same (Bundivantarappa enadauru avare madkolthare) intelligent people they may do anything by their self.
This image of “Intelligent people” very smartly used by our politicians they use it as butter to apply on us whenever we talk about our requirements
Mangalore is the biggest city of Karnataka which is connected through all the three ways of transport. New Mangalore port is only major port of Karnataka. Even though the development of Mangalore is not as expected this is only because Mangalore development depends on its own strength Karnataka government not shown any interest towards development of Mangalore.
The only resources which flow to Mangalore from East is Netravathi River, here also our politicians started to show their smartness they think that intelligent people can live without water. They divert Netravathi River.
When it is asked with UT Khader he said ““There is nothing we can do now. Allocation was made in the last budget (for detailed project report) and it was approved by the Assembly. We have continued it by allocating money. The 13 MLAs from the area cannot oppose this. This is the reality. The train has already left. We cannot stop it,”
Mr. Khader said that the project should have been stopped when “our man” (D.V. Sadananda Gowda) was the Chief Minister. “Mr. Sadananda Gowda had all the powers. But he thought otherwise and allocated funds for the project.” “We need to continue it. The project cannot be shelved,”
And when it comes about minister in charge of D.K Mr. B. Ramanath Rai he says ““I am a Cabinet Minister and I cannot say anything on the Cabinet decision. I personally feel the diversion will lead to decrease in the ground water level in the areas where the river is flowing.” Mr. Rai said his concern about the project was same as that of a common man from the region. “But I cannot do anything. The previous government took a decision to go ahead with project,”
Prof S G Mayya, Chairman, Civil Engineering department, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Suratkal says
“Netravati’s origin is Yettinahole. Later Kumaradhara joins. There is severe water shortage for eight months in many parts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi. Netravati is the lifeline of these districts. I do not see any merit in the inter-basin water transfer scheme.
When the river water is going to Arabian Sea, why not be made use of it? For this, Mayya says such arguments doesn’t make any sense because when the coast is parched for eight months in a year, the government must be providing water to the downstream rather than planning to divert water.
“River water has to flow to sea. Why are we forgetting aquatic life? Fishermen will be in trouble if the inflow to sea reduces. The G S Paramashivaiah committee too had recommended diversion of rivers. I had raised many pertinent questions for which Paramashivaiah had no answer. Of course, technically there is nothing impossible. No doubt, Kolar and other districts have severe water shortage problem. But the situation in the coast is no better.”
Now the intelligent people are really helpless unless they wake up and stand firm against this.
"A risen voice or a written word is not less significant than a swing of sword"...Shafilovesu08
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Good Job Mr Shafi
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