Health and Family Welfare Minister U.T. Khader, who is also the MLA from Mangalore (Ullal) Assembly, asked Ullal Town Municipal Council (TMC) members to take the responsibility of clearing dues in electricity supply and water supply charges in the area.
During the review of works in Ullal on Monday, an official from Mangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (Mescom) said as much as Rs. 2 crore was pending from Ullal TMC, which is the highest among the pending dues to Mescom in the district. The official sought Mr. Khader’s intervention in clearance of dues.
During the discussion of water scarcity in the TMC area, another official pointed out that the TMC owed around Rs. 20 lakh to the Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) towards water charges.
Each of the 27 councillors should part with a portion of the funds allotted for development works towards clearance of dues. Clearance of dues should be top priority for councillors, he said.
The councillors pointed out the problems caused to people because of bad condition of roads in Ullal due to haphazard work of laying pipes for drainage line.
Mr. Khader directed the Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board (KUWSDB) officials to take up repair of earmarked roads on a priority basis. The officials said they had started the work and it would be completed in another 20 days.
He said he had proposed to have water purification units in about five places in his constituency to meet the water requirement.
