Most Welcome in Latur City

The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee who is on a two day visit to Latur arrived in the city today evening through a special aeroplane of Air Force. Governor of Maharashtra, K. Sankarnarayanan, guardian minister of Latur, Satej Patil, Governor of Punjab, Shivraj Patil Chakurkar, mayor Smita Khanapure welcomed him with bouquets.

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Additional revenue commissioner of Aurangabad region, Gokul Maware, incharge collector, B.L.Giri, Sandeep Bishnoi, SP B.G.Gaikar and others were present. The president and other dignitaries headed towards the government guest house after this reception programme. The president will attend the valedictory ceremony of Dayanand Education Society tomorrow (1 June) at 10:30 am. The valedictory programme will be attended by prominent and eminent dignitaries namely Governor K. Shankar narayanan, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chauhan, Governor of Punjab Shivraj Patil, School education minister Rajendra Darda, minister for higher and technical education Rajesh Tope, guardian minister

Satej Patil, MLC Diliprao Deshmukh, MLA Amit Vilasrao Deshmukh and others. The glittering vale-dictory ceremony would take place on the play ground of the society where a huge pandal has been erected. As many as four gates have been made for the entry. The gate number 5 is exclusively for the entry of VIPs, gate number 6 for the entry of journalists and special invitees, gate number 7 for the students, while gate number 8 for the general invitees. The president of Dayanand Education Society, Lakshmiraman

Lahoti, secretary Ramesh Biyani, and convener of valedictory programme Arvind Sonwane have appealed to the public not to carry cell phones, carry bags, cameras or any other electronic gadgets during the programme. The people have been advised to carry their Identity cards. Entry passes have been already distributed to all the invitees.

30 Latur villages for water supply scheme fixed

The leakages in 30 villages water supply scheme were recently fixed by the officials of irrigation department. The water is supplied from the Makni project. The villagers from Killari had time and again complained to the authorities regarding the leakages in the water supply pipelines which resulted into loss of precious water.

Killari had to get the water after a gap of every 20 days due to this leakage problem. The irrigation officials recently fixed the leakages. Now, water supply to Killari has been restored.

For the last many days Killari village was supplied water after a gap of every 20 days due to many reasons like leakages in the pipelines, frequent technical snag in power motors and other villagers drawing more water by tampering the valves etc

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Overall Killari used to receive water at a very low pressure. A team of irrigation department comprising sub regional engineer B.R.Shelar, branch engineer S.P.Aghor and others recently inspected the area from Killari to Malkondji filter and closed all the valves. In addition to this, the pipeline leakages were fixed.

The engineers added that the water supply scheme to 30 villages costs almost Rs 4 lakh per month including power bill, repairs and maintenance, labor costs etc. The villagers do not pay the water tax bill regularly. The recovery of water bills is not satisfactory, and water bill of Rs 1.44 cores is still pending with the villagers.

Seeds free of cost to farmer in Latur City

Owing to drought condition in the district, the Maharashtra State Kisan Sabha has demanded the government to supply seeds and fertilizers free of cost to the farmers for this Kharif season. Besides, an interest free loan of Rs 1 lakh per hectare should be dis bursed to farmers, demanded the Kisan Sabha in its recently concluded district convention.

The district level convention of the sabha recently concluded at Kharola (Renapur). It was inaugurated by state joint secretary Pandurang Rathod. Dr Vitthal More and Prem Gin i were present as the chief guests The newly elected district body of the kisan Sabha was also declared in this convention. The body consists of President Sudhakar Shinde, voice president:

Bhimrao Latpate, secretary: Datta Rautrao, joint secretary: Prabhu Gore,treasurer: Vikas Gin i and members namely Dhanu Adude, Santosh Bande, Pappu Lohar, Jeevanrao Deshmukh,and D.P.Kamble. VikaS Gini delivered the introductory speech. Prof D.P. Kamble conducted the proceedings of the programme, while Datta Rautrao pro posed a vote of thanks.

Rs 5 crore grant to LMC for infrastructure development

The Latur Municipal Corporation (LMC) has received grants worth Rs 5 crore out of the special financial assistance from the State Government for development of the basic infrastructure of the corpo ration.

The city would witness development works like roads, drainage system, water supply, power man -agement out of these granted funds. The LMC recently passed resolutions to this effect in its special meeting. A special meeting of the LMC was summoned recently at the Yashwantrao Chauhan assembly hall under the chairmanship of mayor Smita Khanapure. The meeting passed four resolutions to take an unan imous decision for utilization of Rs 5 crore funds received from the State Government for the basic infrastructure development of Latur, to submit a propos al seeking funds for develop ment of minerals, to make a provision for constructing an art theatre on the land of ITI College and to install a life-size statue of late Vilasrao Deshmukh.

The proposed theatre on the land of the ITT College will come up near Shivaji chowk. The LMC will receive a grant of Rs 3.75 crore from the government for this purpose and other expenditure will be borne by LMC. The proposed the atre is a joint project of ITT and LMC. A resolution effecting an additional pro vision for Rs 8.41 crore for the construction of the pro posed theatre was made by the LMC.

The LMC may utilize funds up to Rs 2 crore for the development of drinking water simply scheme, water conservation and enhancement of underground water reserves. 20 percent of the granted funds may be utilized for environmental conservation and balance which may include forestation, capacity building for maintaining the ground water level etc. Overall Rs 5 crore grant will help the LMC to prepare a road map for the development of infrastructure in the city