BENGALURU: An all-party delegation led by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a drinking water canal project in the state's northern region. "We all are meeting Modi in New Delhi to convince him for central intervention to implement the Kalasa-Banduri drinking water supply project," Siddaramaiah told reporters after an all-party meeting here.
The project involves building barrages across Kalasa and Banduri tributaries of Mahadayi river to divert 7.6 tmc (thousand million cubic) feet of water to Malaprabha river for supplying it to Belagavi, Dharwad and Gadag districts. As the 77km-long Mahadayi or Mandovi river flows to Goa from Karnataka on the west coast to the Arabian Sea, the former has been objecting over sharing its water, as 52km of it stretch is in its state and is a lifeline for its people.
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