Karnataka's Rs 690-cr watershed project

  • 22/12/2000

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)

In a major initiative to develop its vast stretches of dryland, Karnataka has launched a comprehensive project for watershed development at a cost of Rs 690.27 crore with World bank assistance. Under the first phase of the ambitious project, which was formally commissioned by Karnataka's agriculture minister T B Jayachandra, around 1 million acres of dryland in the five districts of Kolar, Tumkur, Chitradurga, Haveri and Dharwad over a five-year period.