Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said that steps had already been taken to declare the Upper Bhadra project as a national project and the Union Cabinet would give its consent to it in May. Once declared as a national project, ₹16,000 crore would be made available for the project, he said.
He was addressing a public gathering at Jagalur in Davangere district after initiating work on 19 projects worth ₹1,383.10 crore related to the Upper Bhadra project, including filling of village tanks and irrigating 18,000 hectares, and inaugurating 18 works worth ₹21.05 crore on Friday.
Mr. Bommai said that through the Upper Bhadra project, the barren land of Jagalur taluk would be converted into a water-rich land. Nearly 40,000 acres of farmland in the taluk was being irrigated through drip irrigation and nine tanks were being filled. The works related to filling 57 tanks in Jagalur taluk had been completed and the tanks would filled in June or July, he said.
