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Work on Mahadayi basin projects delayed due to inaction of Centre: Karnataka CM

Work on Mahadayi basin projects delayed due to inaction of Centre: Karnataka CM

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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Ministers and others riding an electric buggy to reach the stage at an event to distribute agricultural implements in Belagavi on April 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: P.K. BADIGER “Work on Mahadayi basin projects has been delayed due to the inaction of the Centre. The delay has not been caused by us. The government of Karnataka is ready to take up work in the Mahadayi basin. If the Union government were to issue all the necessary clearances today, we will start work tomorrow,” Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said at an event to distribute agricultural implements worth ₹400 crore to farmers from Belagavi revenue division, on April 20. “A major problem in farming is the reduced rainfall and dry land farming. We have to find a longstanding solution to this problem. It includes providing water through major and medium, minor and micro irrigation schemes. The government of Karnataka is spending over ₹23,000 crores on irrigation projects. However, the Union Government is not cooperating with us. We have not received a single rupee for the …

Karnataka may take an all-party delegation to PM to seek justice on Mahadayi issue

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A file photo of the Mahadayi river diversion project site in Belagavi district. | Photo Credit: The Congress government in Karnataka is likely to lead an all-party delegation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to seek justice in the Mahadayi issue for the State after the Central Wildlife Board deferred the decision on the water project while approving a power line in Goa that requires forest land. At the post-Cabinet meeting press briefing, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H.K. Patil said the recently held 79th meeting of the wildlife board decided to defer the decision on the Mahadayi issue. The National Tiger Conservation Authority’s (NTCA) opinion was sought on the matter, which cited the matter as sub judice and did not give its opinion to the board. “However, the board has approved the 400-kV power line in Goa that will require 435 acres of forest land. We were anxiously waiting for the approval for the Mahadayi project. The next meeting will be held six months later.” Stating that the Cabinet has taken a serious stand about …

National Board for Wildlife defers decision on Kalasa-Banduri project in Mahadayi basin

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A file photo of the work on the Mahadayi river diversion project in Belagavi district. | Photo Credit: The National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has deferred Karnataka’a application for the diversion of forest land for the construction of the Kalasa nala irrigation projects in the Mahadayi basin. In a meeting held in New Delhi on January 30, the NBWL’s standing committee cited multiple reasons such as the matter pending before courts and non-receipt of approval from the National Tiger Conservation Authority as the reasons for the postponement of the decision. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the Chairman of the NBWL, Yogendra Yadav, Minister for Forests and Ecology, is the chairman of the standing committee. Mr. Yadav headed the January 30 meeting. For use of forest land The proposal was for the use of around 11 hectares of forest land situated on the tiger corridor between Kali and Sahyadri tiger reserves. This is supposed to be for the construction of a diversion weir, jack well-cum-pump house, electrical substation, pipeline and power line at Kanakumbi and …

BJP “Bluffing” People Of Goa Over Mahadayi River Dispute: Sharad Pawar’s Party

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NCP national spokesperson Clyde Crasto said BJP is bluffing the people of Goa. Panaji: The Nationalist Congress Party on Tuesday alleged that the ruling BJP in Goa was fooling the people of the state on the Mahadayi river dispute with neighbouring Karnataka. Earlier in the day, leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Goa claimed that Karnataka officials stopped them when they visited the site of the proposed dams on the river’s tributaries that have become a bone of contention between the two states. “By declaring that they will start a signature campaign to ask the Central Government to withdraw approval given to Karnataka’s DPR (detailed project reports) of the Kalasa-Bhandura dam project on Mahadayi, BJP is bluffing the people of Goa,” said NCP national spokesperson Clyde Crasto in a statement. With the BJP being in power in the Centre as well as in Karnataka and Goa, it did not need a signature campaign to put pressure on the Union government, he said. Karnataka cannot divert the water of the Mahadayi river because under …