News updates - 1st - 8th January

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 Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president R.V. Deshpande on Thursday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had given instructions to release Rs. 500 crore of the Rs. 1,000 crore that he had announced for flood relief in 15 flood-hit districts of north Karnataka.

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Chief minister BS Yeddyurappa rejected demands from the opposition that farm loans of the flood-affected be waived

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Kurnool: Collector Mukesh Kumar Meena asked the housing officials to speed up the construction of houses for flood victims in 34 mandals. Reviewing the special housing programme here on Thursday, he said the temporary shelters should be completed while construction of permanent houses be commenced by January 18.

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 Work on the new villages where the flood-hit people will be relocated, in Gulbarga district, will begin on Wednesday. The foundation stones for houses in Jewargi taluk will be laid by Revenue Minister G. Karunakara Reddy and the head of the Pejawar Math, Visvesha Tirtha Swami.

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The process of relocating flood-hit villages in the district has come to a halt owing to shortage of funds, Deputy Commissioner Anbu Kumar said here on Monday.

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KURNOOL: MLA T.G. Venkatesh, Mayor S. Raghurami Reddy and additional Joint Collector B. Laxmikantam distributed kits to flood victims donated by the UNICEF here on Thursday.

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Members of the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS), who had begun a padayatra from Deodurga on Tuesday, reached Raichur on Wednesday and staged a dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office demanding that the Government set right anomalies in the disbursement of compensation to the flood victims.

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Kurnool: Nearly 300 families of weavers are trying to salvage their livelihood buried under the debris that still surrounds them. With their houses destroyed and looms beyond repair, many have been forced to turn into daily wage labourers.

http://www.thehindu.com/2010/01/02/stories/2010010250580300.htm

 Three months after the floods damaged their houses and crops putting normal life out of gear, several villages in Raichur taluk are yet to be relocated, thanks to the apathy of the authorities concerned.

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District Congress Committee urged the other political parties to spare the residents of Kurnool city from bandh in view of the shock caused by floods in October last.

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Save the Children, an international aid agency, proposes to start six more child friendly centres in the flood affected areas of Kurnool district. So far, seven centres were opened and six more would start functioning soon.

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The foundation stone for relocating two flood-prone villages in Ron taluk of Gadag district was laid on Saturday.