Panel set up to study Yettinahole project.

The State government has set up a five-member committee to study the implementation of the Yettinahole drinking water project and availability of other water resources to mitigate water woes in drought-prone Kolar and Chickballapur districts.

The committee, headed by A.K. Bajaj, former chairman, Central Water Commission, has been asked to submit a report within six months.

The other members of the panel are B.N. Thyagaraj, former chairman, BWSSB; Ram Prasad, geologist, IISc., and A.N. Yellappa Reddy, environmentalist and Managing Director of Karnataka Neeravari Nigam/Yettinahole and Upper Bhadra Project Neeravai Nigam Ltd. (newly-formed corporation).

Besides the viability of water in the project, the committee will study the availability of water resources for drinking purposes in the Krishan valley, Mekedatu, Sharavati, Aghanashini, and supply of water by treating sewage from the Koramangala– Challaghatta valley to the two districts.


THE HINDU