Bangalore: While demanding early completion of lift-irrigation projects and proper drinking water supply in Channaryapatna taluk, several Farmers came out on a two-day protest march from Channarayapatna to Hassan.
The march had been begun on Monday and ended on Wednesday as the protest reaches to Hassan.
Former MLA and Congress leader C.S. Putte Gowda led the march. The protesters halted near Hema Gangothri on the first day and resumed their march Tuesday morning and reached Hassan by 11 am. They staged a dharna at Dairy Circle before reaching the Deputy Commissioner’s office.
While addressing the protesters, Putte Gowda said people of the taluk had been deprived of drinking water facilities. They were facing drinking water shortage even before the onset of summer. As lift irrigation projects in Hirisave, Kachenahalli, Nuggehalli, remained incomplete years after the work started, farmers were not getting irrigation facility.
He also said that people in the taluk were not getting sand for construction activities.
Despite repeated demands to clear problems in sand distribution, the district administration had failed to set things right, he alleged.
Deputy Commissioner Umesh H. Kusugal received the memorandum from the protesters.
Bureau Report
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