Yaragola water project: HC notice to ministers

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court issued notices to Railway Minister of State K H Muniyappa, Textile Minister R Varthur Prakash, principal secretaries of Irrigation, Forest and Housing and Urban Departments, following a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Human Relevant Research Institute for non-completion of  Yaragola drinking water project in Kolar that was scheduled to be ready by 2010.A Division Bench comprising acting Chief Justice V J Sen and Justice A S Bopanna on Wednesday issued notices to the ministers and officials. The PIL alleged that though `230.13 crore was allocated for the project in 2006, the government had not sanctioned the required land and the officials had just purchased pipes for `55.25 lakh.