Digital assessment process zone to come up in Bidar

Source: The Hindu.   

Tata Consultancy Services will set up an iON digital assessment process zone in Bhemmanna Khandre Institute of Technology in Bhalki on August 6.

R.V. Deshpande, Minister for heavy industries and tourism will inaugurate it. Ganesh Subramanian, head, DEMAT services, TCS; Rajshekar Patil, MLA; Sharanappa Mattur, MLC; Khaji Arshed Ali, chairman, Bidar Urban Development Authority; and Eshwar Khandre, MLA, and president of the college committee, will be present.

Mr. Deshpande will also inaugurate the new building of the government polytechnic. Umashree, district in-charge Minister; Gurupadappa Nagamarapalli, MLA; and Anurag Tewari, Deputy Commissioner; would be present, said a press release issued by Hosalli Prabhu, principal.


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Bidar ZP starts ‘shramdan’ to clean wells

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The Bidar Zilla Panchayat has begun a ‘shramdan’ programme across the district.

Workers and farmers can enrol in schemes under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and they will be paid wages even if they clean wells or create water harvesting structures such as farm ponds on their own farm. Open wells on public or private land will be taken up for cleaning.

The project was launched on Sunday and the first well to be cleaned was in Sirgapur village in Basavakalyan taluk. Sharat B., Bidar Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer, got down into the well and began removing stone, silt, garbage and weeds. Other officers joined him too.

The well was cleaned after four hours of labour. Heavy rain had breached the Sirgapur tank bund last year, carrying silt and small stones into the wells.

“We are using village heralders to spread the message. We are urging village residents to utilise the facility and get job cards,” Mr. Sharat said. Work on dredging 36 of the 120 major tanks was under progress, he said. One third of the 600 villages are suffering from water scarcity in Bidar district that has received only 60 per cent of the aggregate annual rainfall this year. According to sources, most of these villages have drinking water schemes or locally available groundwater sources that can be harnessed. Existing borewells will be flushed and cleaned to increase yield.

According to a report sent to the State government, the district has 826 rural drinking water schemes. They consist of large cisterns in which water from nearby borewells was being filled. Water flows as an effect of gravity to mini-water tanks in different residential areas.

The problem, however, is that only 322 of these schemes have power supply. Taluk panchayat executive officers have requested the Gulbarga Electricity Supply Company to provide power supply to these units.

The power distribution agency has approved only 74 requests till now.

Meanwhile, fodder is in short supply in the district. Veterinary Department officials estimate that standing green grass and fodder stock can last only six weeks.

“We have plans to set up fodder centres and cow sheds in case of fodder scarcity,” officials said.

One third of villages suffering from water scarcity in the district

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Demand to declare Bidar drought-hit

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Members of the Bidar Zilla Panchayat have urged the State government to declare the district as drought-hit and start relief works. At a general body meeting on Wednesday, the members complained that water scarcity and crop loss were troubling farmers.

Venkat Rao Biradar said that women were breaking off marriage in some villages as they were tired of collecting water after walking several km every day. Chandrashekar Biradar, member, asked officials to start dredging of open wells and tanks. Some members complained that though borewells were drilled in some places, they did not have pump sets or pipelines to supply water to houses.

Sharat B., Chief Executive Officer, said the demand had been conveyed to district in-charge Minister Umashree, who has promised to raise the issue with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.

Mr. Sharat said the district administration and the zilla panchayat had taken up dredging of tanks under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act. Agriculture Department officials said the district received only 156 mm rain, against the average of 296 mm and the deficit was 48 per cent.

Of the targeted 3.4 lakh hectares (ha), sowing had been completed only on 2.9 lakh ha, officials said.


‘Women breaking off marriage as they are tired of collecting water after walking several km’


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