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Karnataka Government has released Rs 31 crore for providing drinking water in rural areas during this summer, the Minister for Rural Development, Mr Jagadish Shettar, said here today.
Around 170 constituencies have been granted Rs 15 lakh each for providing drinking water, he told reporters.
Districts such as Chamarajanagar, Kolar, Tumkur, Chikkaballapur and Bangalore Rural, where the drinking water problem becomes acute in the coming months, would get an additional Rs 25 lakh each, Mr Shettar said. The Government has set up a task force under the chairmanship of MLAs to monitor drinking water supply, he said. The Minister said there was no shortage of funds for implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme and workers were being paid their wages, adding that so far, the Government had spent Rs 2,400 crore under the job guarantee scheme.
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