Water supply hampered to Mangaluru as water level increased in Netravati river: Mayor
Mangaluru, August 17: Mayor Bhaskar Moily said that water supply to the city was hampered as the water level in the Tumbe dam is increased due to flood situation in Netravati river.
After visiting the newly constructed Tumbe dam along with deputy mayor Muhammad K, standing committee presidents and officials on Friday, he told media persons that as the water level was increased to 9.1 mts in the dam, pumping was stopped on Thursday night. But late night, pumping was started. Mescom was supplying power to the Tumbe dam from Bantwala sub-station. The power line passed below near the dam and when the water level increased to 9.1 mts in the dam, the power line would touch the water. So, as a precautionary measure, the MESCOM would disconnect the power supply as soon as the water level increased to 8.5 mts height due to which water supply was hampered, he said.
On August 14 night, the water level in the dam was increased to 8.2 mts and the MESCOM had disconnected the power supply. On August 15 from 3.45 am to 7.10 am, the water level again rose to 8.8 mts and on August 16 at 6.35 pm, the water level increased to 8.9 mts. As the power connection was hampered during this time, water was not pumped. On Friday morning, the water level came down to 7.9 mts and water pumping was started. As and when the water level increased in the dam, the water supply to Mangaluru city, Ullala and Bantwala get disruption in water supply, he said.
Tumbe gets record 11.9 mts water level!
Presently, there was no problem due to increase in water level in the dam. In 1974, Tumbe old dam had recorded 11.9 mts water level which is the highest water level recorded in the history of the dam, he said.
City Corporation chief whip Shashidhar Hegde, standing committee presidents Praveen Chandra Alva, and Naveen D’Souza, corporator Deepak Poojary, Commissioner Muhammad Nazeer, officers Linge Gowda and Naresh Shenoy were present.
Poligio fibre bags to check collapse of dam retention wall!
The retention wall of the Tumbe dam pump house was collapsed in some places. Around six months ago, around 35 mts long retention wall was collapsed and now, another 20 mts was damaged. In order to stop this temporarily, poligio fibre bags (huge sand-filled bags) which were placed in the sea erosion places in Ullala, would be placed. The experts of the Hyderabad-based company which laid the bags at Ullala, visited the Tumbe dam on Thursday and reviewed the situation. Once they give the proposal, the work to lay the sand bags would start by December. The work has to take up when the water level decreased to 4 mts. In order to construct permanent retention wall, the city corporation would require Rs 15 crore and the corporation has submitted a proposal for Rs 10 crore to the government, said deputy mayor Muhammad K.
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Maharashtra Congress chief Patole meets Kharge, dismisses resignation talk as 'rumours'
New Delhi, Nov 25: Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Monday dismissed as "rumours" talk of his resignation following the assembly polls debacle and stressed on "collective accountability" for the defeat.
Patole made the remarks after meeting Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge during which he conveyed that the result had not reflected the sentiments of the people of Maharashtra.
"Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and other national and state leaders were leading Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) from the forefront during the assembly polls. So, we were sure that the trends were in favour of Maha Vikas Aghadi, even the citizens believed that," the Maharashtra Congress chief said.
"If I talk about Nanded, the Lok Sabha bypolls and assembly elections were held on the same day. In Lok Sabha bypolls, our candidate was winning in six assembly seats, whereas, in the assembly elections, we are not winning even a single seat," he said, adding that there cannot be such a "huge difference".
This is the sentiment among the people also and they have stated that this government in Maharashtra was not being formed on their votes, he claimed.
"So, I spoke to Mallikarjun Kharge on this," he added.
Asked whether he had offered to resign or the party had asked for his resignation after the Maharashtra assembly polls defeat, Patole said, "These are all rumours and there is no truth in them. There is collective accountability."
Patole also said he will meet Rahul Gandhi in a day or two and discuss all issues.
"Democracy is being finished. We have discussed that... there was no talk of resignation," he said.
The MVA alliance, comprising the Congress, NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) and Shiv Sena (UBT), was restrained to 46 seats by the Mahayuti that reaped a rich harvest of 230 seats in the 288-member House.
