District administration to allot sites for SWM units

As 118 gram panchayats in Dakshina Kannada are yet to allocate sites for setting up solid waste management units, the district administration will take up a drive to complete the process of allocation in another 20 days. The drive will also be for identification of sites for construction of houses for the houseless, according to the Deputy Commissioner K.V. Rajendra. During the quarterly Karnataka Development Programme Review Committee meeting, chaired by District In-charge Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary here recently, Dr. Rajendra asked an official from the Survey Department to depute a surveyor each from the office of tahsildars of seven taluks for surveying of government land for setting up solid waste management units and for building houses. “The survey work should be completed in another 15 days,” he said.