Bengaluru: Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, during his maiden budget speech, announced some important announcements in connection with irrigation projects.

CM Bommai has said that his government would give priority to the Upper Krishna stage three projects, Yettinahole, Mahadayi, Mekedatu, and Upper Bhadra.

He also announced the construction of a balancing reservoir across the river Tungabhadra near Navali village in Koppal. The state government had decided to implement the old plan to construct a reservoir with a storage capacity of 40 TMC along the Tungabhadra river.

The ambitious and big project of North Karnataka, upper Krishan stage three work, was also mentioned by the CM during his speech. He said that he would give priority to this work. It denotes the government's commitment to infrastructure development, dam capacity enhancement, and other projects.

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The CM also stated that the NWDA will prepare a detailed project report under the National Perspective Plan to use a total of 22 TMC of water under the Bedti-Varada river linking project.

He also proposed for reconstruction and development of 58 dams of the state cost of Rs 1,500 crore under the World Bank-supported DRIP project.

CM also announced a separate policy for the system operation and management of lift irrigation projects and micro and drip irrigation projects.

Under the master plan for the Paschimavahini project, as many as 1,348 vented dams would be constructed said CM and a grant of Rs 500 crore were kept aside for this project. He announced the development of a park downstream Kabini dam of Mysuru District at an expenditure of Rs.50 crore through Kaveri Niravari Nigama.

The CM said that the revenue collection target of Rs 7, 515 crores were fixed for the Transport Department for the year 2021-22.

To strengthen the public transport system, the CM said that his government will aim to take maximum advantage of the ‘Augmentation of City Bus Service Scheme’ a project launched by the Union Government.

He announced that the "One Nation, One Card" scheme would be implemented before this August. The card user can use this card on both Namma Metro and BMTC buses. Steps for the collection of automatic fares on BMTC buses would be launched, he said.

Steps would be taken to provide public service through contactless, faceless, and cashless systems in the transport department said CM.

The Chief Minister, who loves technology and is also tech-savvy, announced that 66 offices of the Transport Department would be made paperless offices and all the records would be digitized.

Chief Minister Bommai gave the good news to the women labourers working in the garment sector and announced the launch of the "Vanitha Sangathi" program, which provides BMTC buses at a concessional rate to them. He also announced the construction of 52 bus stands and 16 bus units in the state.