An action plan to supply 61 million litres of water every day to Ramanagaram city at a cost of Rs 330 crore will be sent to the Centre after getting the State Cabinet’s nod, District and Energy Minister D K Shivakumar said on Monday.

He told reporters that while 75 per cent of Kanakpura town gets water daily, Magadi town gets it once in three days, Channapatna once in two days and Ramanagaram city once a week.

Shivakumar said around 16 MLD (million litres per day) of water is supplied to Ramanagaram city against its daily requirement of 25 MLD. The action plan to draw 61 MLD from the Cauvery will take care of the drinking water needs of the city till 2045. The pipeline work to bring water to Bangalore was stopped, and the same facility will be used to bring water to Ramanagaram.

The minister said the district administration has been instructed to drill more borewells in villages.

Tank Filling

Shivakumar said the work on filling tanks is on. Ten tanks in Kanakpura taluk were filled with water from Arkavathy river. The other tanks will be filled soon.