The much-awaited connection to Ahmedabad under the UDAN 3 has commenced today with a bang from Belagavi.

Star Air commenced its service from today with a very good load factor as well.

The Load factor was around 86% for the 50 seater aircraft.

Load :
Belagavi-Ahmedabad—43 pax.

Ahmedabad-Belagvai–41 pax.

Schedule:

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The Sri Lanka A cricket team will tour India in May- June and 3 matches will be played at Belagavi KSACA stadium at Auto Nagar.

The squads:

For Sri Lanka series: Multi-day: Ishan Kishan (Capt. & wk), Anmolpreet Singh, Rituraj Gaikwad, Deepak Hooda, Ricky Bhui, Shubman Gill, Shivam Dube, Shreyas Gopal, Washington Sundar, Mayank Markande, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Warrier, Ishan Porel, and Prashant Chopra.

One-day: Priyank Panchal (Capt.), Abhimanyu Easwaran, Anmolpreet Singh, Ricky Bhui, Siddhesh Lad, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, K.S. Bharat (wk), Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Aditya Sarwate, Sandeep Warrier, Ankit Rajpoot, and Ishan Porel.

Fixtures for the Sri Lanka A series are as below:

1st Four day match: May 25-29, Belagavi
4th one-day match: June 13, Belagavi
5th one-day match: June 15, Belagavi

2nd Four day match: May 31-June 3, Huballi

1st one-day match: June 6, Huballi

2nd one-day match: June 8, Huballi

3rd one-day match: June 10, Huballi

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It has been a long journey with 5 flights in a day to Zero, and then again one Air India Flight to Bengaluru. Today Sambra Airport will witness one more historical event in its 77-year journey, the commencement of 2 Flights under UDAN 3.0. Belagavi has got 13 routes under UDAN and Three have commenced to date.

Today the Starair Ahmedabad and the Alliance Air Pune Flight commenced its services taking the total number of flights to 6 a day except for Tuesday.

We now have 6 Flights a day (except Tuesday) namely 3 to Bengaluru, One each to Hyderabad, Pune, and Ahmedabad.

When all the SpiceJet flights got diverted and we the people in Belagavi started showing a lot of resentment over it, but this criticism raised some strength, in understating to take this battle to next level, the battle to mass and the political class where it needs to be heard rightly and hit strongly.

However, the most awaited Mumbai is yet to be commenced.

This article is a tribute to all the contributors for a cause cannot though draft all the names, and much more left still to fight for and to bring the glory back to our lovable liveable city “Belagavi Belgaon Belgaum”, well signing off with words of praise to them.

Belagavi a city will reap more benefits and value to rise to new heights, the skies of Belagavi will be busy again.

Routes under UDAN 3.0 for Belagavi

1. Belagavi to Hyderabad – InterGlobe (Indigo), SpiceJet, Turbo Megha (TruJet) – Spicejet Commenced
2. Belagavi to Tirupati – Ghodawat (Star Air), Turbo Megha (TruJet)
3. Belagavi to Mumbai – SpiceJet, Ghodawat (Star Air)
4. Belagavi to Pune – Alliance Air Commenced
5. Belagavi to Surat – Ghodawat (Star Air)
6. Belagavi to Kadappa – Turbo Megha (TruJet)
7. Belagavi to Mysuru – Turbo Megha (TruJet)
8. Belagavi to Indore – Ghodawat (Star Air)
9. Belagavi to Jodhpur – Ghodawat (Star Air)
10. Belagavi to Jaipur – Ghodawat (Star Air)
11. Belagavi to Ahmedabad – Ghodawat (Star Air) Commenced
12. Belagavi to Ozar (Nasik) – Ghodawat (Star Air)
13. Belagavi to Nagpur – Ghodawat (Star Air)

See Complete Flight Schedule from Belagavi to Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and Ahmedabad and return.

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MLA Belagavi North Mr. Anil Benake today took a press meet on the occasion of the completion of one year as an MLA and he presented his report card.

He said I am extremely thankful to all the citizens of Belagavi for your strong support, co-operation and trust. In the future, I work hard for the betterment of Belagavi.

Since the last one year, not even a stone has been pelted and works worth 70 crores have been initiated.

Silt removal of Rakakskop is essential so that more water can be stored.

About the issue of the Vegetable market and loss of jobs of 10,000 people, only the committee members are responsible for all this. If the association members had approached me or South Mla we would have sorted the issue amicably, Benake said.

Bhendi Bazar widening will be commenced after the election results.

With respect to the 272 houses built 4 years ago under the Rajiv Gandhi Awas yojna, a new list of allottees will be prepared and they will be allotted the house.s

1. Secure and fear-free environment for Women, children and senior citizens

2. Trying to get more funds under the smart city for Mal Maruti Extension area.

3. Comprehensive steps to make city drug abuse free

4. 100% literacy rate must be achieved and for this upscaling of the schools and colleges.

5. Basic needs such as road, water, sanitation

6. Development of major circles in the constituency

7. Development of historic temples by the Tourism department

8. Development of Fort Lake under Smart city

9. Hitech Bus stand and Library at major places

10. 125 lakhs for development of minority colonies

11. 100 lakh from MLA fund for city development

12. 285 lakhs for development of schools and colleges

13. 775 lakhs for PWD works, work will be started after elections, few in DPR stage

14. 28 lakhs for solid waste management at Ram Teerth nagar

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A group of like-minded youth are on a mission to protect old forts and have cleaned up the 300-year-old Sada Fort located in Sada village situated in Chorla gram panchayat limits, 31-km away from Belagavi city.

They removed wild weeds, creepers, shrubs and small trees growing in and around it. The fort had been neglected and urgent attention was required and the movement undertaken by these youths is worth a praise.

Located amid serene surroundings, the village is blessed with greenery and waterfalls. The fort earlier belonged to Desai Sardar, a soldier in Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s army. Most youngsters here work in Goa, while their parents stay in the village and practice agriculture. According to the villagers, Chatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj and Rajaram Maharaj, sons of Chatrapati Shivaji, would visit this fort to keep a watch on surrounding areas.

While there are no actual records depicting the history of the fort, the villagers said that whatever is known about it has been passed down through the generations. Now, however, the fort walls are deteriorating due to negligence.

Satkaryottejak Mandal of Sada village and Durgaveer Pratishthan, a group of youths engaged in fort conservation, have started cleaning the fort up by restoring its walls, in the hope of making it a tourism hub.

They have been working on weekends for the past two weeks, and are hopeful of completing the work soon. Ravi Desai, a villager, said, “Our village once had about 700 houses and was prosperous during Shivaji Maharaj’s time. But today, only 20 homes remain here, and basic amenities like health care, electricity, etc, are not available. The fort has also been neglected. Saddened over this, we approached the Durgaveer Prathishthan to take up restoration work. We want the help of authorities or philanthropists to bring back the lost glory of our village,” Abhijeet Ashtekar from Durgaveer Pratishthan, said, “We have a group of about 40 people from Belagavi, Sankeshwar and Goa taking part in conservation activities. We had organized two drives last Saturday and Sunday, and will be organizing two more to complete the work.”

For details Contact: Ravi Desai 9764392822

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Two petrol pump employees in Kittur were brutally murdered and the culprit fled away with the cash.

The culprit fled away with 1 lakh cash and has been captured in the CCTV camera. The police are investigating this murder and they hope to close it soon.

Within a day of the murder, the killer has been caught by the CCTV cameras in Shiva Petrol Pump near Kittur where the gruesome murder of the workers took place.

Ushtaq Beedi and Mallikarjun Pattanshetty who were working at the pump during the night were killed.

The photograph of the killer had been sent to all police stations and also flashed on social media channels and this massive circulation will help the police trace him soon.

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The Farmers of Shahpur today protested against the acquisition of the fertile land for the Halga Macche bypass, but under police protection, the NHAI destroyed standing crops and leveled the fields.

From a fortnight the police have been used by NHAI so that they can acquire the land. Standing crops have been destroyed and the farmers have lost their yield and also their land but none of the elected representatives have come to hear the entreaty of the farmers.

For a couple of days, work was stopped saying resurvey would be conducted but it was an eyewash.

Today police arrested the protesting farmers. Bhomesh Birje, Nilam Birje, Tanaji Halgekar, Prakash Naik, Pintu Kangralkar were arrested by the police. The police did not disclose as to in which police station the arrested have been detained, the other farmers said.

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Former MLA of Belagavi South Sambhaji Patil passed away today evening at around 8.50 pm following a kidney ailment at the age of 68.

Sambhaji Patil was the only Mayor in the country to be elected 4 times.

Patil was mayor from 25-04-1990 to 29-06-1991, 26-12-1992 to 28-12-1993, 30-03-1999 to 17-04-2000 and 30-06-2003 to 03-09-2004.

He was also termed as the king maker at times and had a good hold on the local politics.

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The New Indian Express has made this story a hidden camera was found in the women’s washroom of a noted foreign-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) located at Tilakwadi in Belagavi, recently.

The Paper further states, a woman sweeper found the mounted hidden camera while cleaning and told other women employees.
According to sources, the sweeper had accidentally hit the hidden camera, which then fell into the water.

The frightened sweeper rushed out of the washroom and told the other women employees that she had accidentally broken something. When they went to check, they discovered that it was a hidden camera.
Responding to the incident, the owner, who lives abroad,  came down heavily on the center’s manager for his administrative negligence. The BPO which was loss-making shut down.

Meanwhile, the incident of the hidden camera which was aimed at recording women in the washroom reached the city police commissioner.

He then deputed a special police squad to investigate the case. Sources say that the police have already started an inquiry. They have also taken one accused in their custody and are thoroughly interrogating him. However, no case has been registered in connection with any police station.

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Prashant Rao Aihole, a resident of Athani and husband of the Belagavi Zilla Panchayat president was arrested by Belagavi district police on the charges of cheating, breach of trust, intimidation and financial misappropriation.

Prashant is the president of the Sri Lakshmi Multi-purpose Credit Society in Athani.

Sanjay Eknath Satpalkar had filed a complaint against Prashant on April 17 alleging that the latter had cheated him to the tune of Rs 2 lakh in the pretext of giving a site through his Shri Mahalaxmi Multi-Trade Distribution Pvt Ltd in 2012, reports the Times Of India.

SP Sudheerkumar Reddy stated in a release that sufficient documents had been collected to prove the complicity of the accused in the crime before taking him into custody.

The society also faces allegations of collecting deposits from the public and not returning them on maturity. Some depositors have complained that Prashant had allegedly collected money on the pretext of distributing housing sites in Athani, and failed to do so.

In complaints filed to the Athani police earlier this month, depositors complained that the accused had collected money from more people than he could distribute sites for.

They also accused him of buying agricultural land but not getting converted it into non-agricultural land, reports the Hindu.

A few months ago, a group of depositors had staged a dharna in front of the zilla panchayat and tried to gherao Asha Aihole, ZP president.

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Each neighborhood had a lake where you and your siblings went swimming and fishing is now a garbage dump and new visitors can’t even imagine a lake there. You yourself can remember the place as one where you sailed your little paper boats and from where you excitedly brought home guppies and tadpoles to put into your house pond.

With urbanization and newer methods to get water, the ground water level has depleted to a great extent. Now there are few NGO’s and the group who have come forward to rejuvenate such dead lakes by which the groundwater level rises.

PYAAS FOUNDATION is working on the Bailwad lake in Bailhongal. The lake belongs to the hot and arid drought affected zone of Bailhongal. The village was once famous for the ancient temple dedicated to Siddabasaveshwara.

Pyas started working there was a mountain of hard rock and rubble. They were told that there were numerous attempts at the lake, and everyone gave up when they hit the hard rock surface.

Today two months later lake Bailwad stands evidence to the resilience of PYAAS, today one can in actual see a lake, derocked, desilted, with a layer of compressed black soil to prevent loss of water, with a live spring pouring water in hot blazing sunlight.

PYAAS FOUNDATION has also taken up the rejuvenation of the Macche lake and work is in full swing. The foundation has already rejuvenated a couple of lakes last year.

The new multipurpose project designed by a group led by Kiran Nippanikar is expected to give a new dimension to the tiny Peeranwadi village. It is just not rejuvenation of the lake, but a project which can provide shelter to the stray cattle, encourage fish farming, organic farming and more. When the project was brought before Jai Bharat Foundation of Jayant Humbarwadi and a few more industrialists, they were convinced and ready to fund it. Jaybharat Foundation has taken the lead along with Polyhydron Foundation, Vega, Belgaum Ferrocast Pvt Ltd, Abhishek Alloys, Sneham International as a group have come forward to undertake the lake rejuvenation work as a CSR activity. Around 30 trees also were translocated with the help of PWD.

These groups have come up and are putting all their efforts to raise the water level with their good deeds. But time has now come that such activities must also involve the local villagers who will do Sharma Daan as Satyamev Jayate Water Cup which is essentially a competition between different villages to see who can do the maximum work for watershed management and water conservation in the period of the competition. The Water Cup creates a platform for villagers to apply their learning from our training program and make their villages water-abundant.

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With the advent of summer, each one thinks of the heat and the availability of potable water. This year with less rainfall and drought situation in the nearby districts the current water level in Rakaskop and Hidkal would be sufficient up to Mid June.

Belagavi city was dependent on well water before the commencement of Rakaskop scheme. Most of these wells were constructed before and during the British Raj almost 100 to 200 years back.

Dr. M. Vishveshwarayya who designed the Rakaskop Scheme had mentioned in the Preamble to his report that “Belagavi water supply can be maintained by a chain of wells.”

In the year 1995, the Rakaskop Reservoir was the only source of potable water for Belagavi city. Wells had fallen into disuse over the forty years of piped supply of water. Rains were delayed till July 22nd and the Reservoir was completely empty. Alternate sources of water had to be found.

Belagavi’s attempt at water security for all its citizens by harnessing local resources falls into the latter category.

In 1964, when piped water was introduced in Belagavi, households were uncertain about getting connected to the pipeline. When efforts to woo residents failed, the then divisional commissioner had what he thought was a brainwave. Since residents were refusing piped water,  he ordered the closure of the wells. Ironically, 50 years later, the same government machinery had to work hard to reopen wells.

The Open Well Project represents a local initiative undertaken through local innovation to radically transform a public service to solve a local problem and benefit a Tier II city.

This effort is presented, in all humility, merely because it is a replicable effort for almost everywhere there are unmapped and untapped underground water resources.

Design of mini filter, alum dozer, chlorinator, pumps, connection to the existing network for supply of water. Involvement of community, social organizations, N.G.O.’s, Private entrepreneurs and donors to execute the project.

Engineer R S Nayak was spearheading this project and he implemented it successfully and also got many awards for this scheme and the same was replicated in many other cities as well.

The well at Veerbhadra Nagar was constructed by the British in 1908 and has a water column of 100 feet. The source of water for this well is a stream coming from nearly 5 km away between two trap rock layers and opening at this point. Three wells were constructed at this place and are connected by a tunnel which is six feet in height.

The well at Shetty Galli was constructed by the British in 1885. The well is perfectly rectangular in shape and the dimension of the well is exactly the same both at the top and the bottom (in mm). The well at Math Galli was constructed by the British in 1883. The Fire Station was located near this well. The well at Kirloskar Road is a high yielding open well centrally located in the city. The Borough Municipality was supplying water from this well by constructing a small overhead tank.

The well at Goods Shed Road was constructed by the British and has a water column of 90 feet. It was observed that almost all these wells were surrounded and protected by a layer of laterite.

The well at Math Galli was constructed by the British in 1883. The Fire Station was located near this well. The well at Kirloskar Road is a high yielding open well centrally located in the city. The Borough Municipality was supplying water from this well by constructing a small overhead tank.

The ‘Congress Well’, then known as ‘Pampa Sarovar’, was constructed in 1924 during the Congress Party’s historic convention which was presided over by Mahatma Gandhi.

Cost of construction of the well at that time was Rs. 4370 and 3 annas. This well supplied water to lakhs of people who had assembled for the Convention.

Many wells in the recent past have been rejuvenated which has helped in the restoration of water supply in many areas.

The Sheri Galli corner well, 12 Puleyed well at Hutatma Chowk (Bara Ghadghadyachi Vihir) and a well in School no.2 in Ganpat Galli have been reopened now.

High yielding wells

1. Open well at Veerbhadranagar.
2. Open well at Goods shed Road Shastrinagar.
3. Open well at Congress Road.
4. Open well at Shetty galli.
5. Open well at Kirloskar Road.
6. Open well at Shivaji Garden, Shahapur.
7. Open well at Math galli.
8. Open well at Nazar camp, Vadgaon.
09. Open well at Rayat galli, Vadgaon.
10. Open well at Polytechnic premises Kakatives.
11. Open well at Darga premises Kamat galli.
12. Open well at Khanjar galli.
13. Open well at Kasai galli.
14. Open well at Joshi Mala.
15. Open well at Teggin galli, Vadgaon.
16. Open well at Konwal Galli.
17. Open well at Samartha Nagar.
18. Open well at PWD Quarters.
19. Open well at Alwan Galli.

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“Me for School” a unique program for the development of all government Schools in Belagavi South Constituency has been launched recently at Marathi School no 31 and Kannada School no 14 by Abhay Patil MLA Belagavi South. 

The main aim of this program is to facilitate all the basic facilities at all the Government Schools with the help of past students of respective government School. Former students colored the above-said schools in the 1st phase. In the second phase, the other requirements of the schools such as computer lab, library, Smart Board, Compound wall, Urinals, etc will be provided through MLA funds and contribution of past students association. In the coming two years all the Government Schools in Belagavi Dakshin will have more basic facilities than private schools. To upgrade knowledge of the government School Teachers there will be an interactive session with experts twice a year.

He called upon all the alumni of the government schools to do something for their school’s development by donating in cash or kind.

Today the coloring work at Jail School was undertaken.

The highlight of today’s event was the participation of three generations from the same house, who painted the walls of their school.

One person who studied in 1948, joined in today with fellow alumni to give the school a better look.

The purpose of such a program is to motivate people to contribute to the school they have learned elsewhere. People started to pop up in different parts of the country after we started this rare program that we painted.

Every morning for 20 days about 60 schools in the constituency will be painted.

Hundreds of people participated in the program, including the elderly.

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It has been a long journey with 5 flights in a day to Zero, and then again one Air India Flight to Bengaluru.

With the Starair Ahmedabad and the Alliance Air Pune Flight commencement the total number of flights to 6 a day except for Tuesday. 3 routes out of the 13 allotted in UDAN have been made operational.

And the good news is the Upward Movement of traffic from Belagavi.

The Hyderabad Belagavi Spicejet flight saw a good load factor of 90% and on the return flight, the load was 93% which is very encouraging.

The Alliance Air Belagavi Pune Flight has seen loads of 76% and 80% on return flights.

The Bengaluru Belagavi Ahmedabad flight by Star Air has a load factor of 64% and 96% for the return journey.

Still, the main flight which all are looking forward is the Mumbai connection, which might happen soon.

Trujet is likely to start operations from the 3^rd quarter. 

Other flight operators must look into the load factor to give more connections from this 77-year-old airport.

#AAI @aaiblgairport Upward Movement of traffic from Belagavi.HYD-IXG-HYD ,LF 90% & 93% by @flyspicejet.BLR-IXG-PNQ-IXG-BLR,76% & 80% @airindiain .BLR-IXG-AMD-IXG-BLR,64% & 96% @OfficialStarAir . Request to all Airlines ,start other sectors@IndiGo6E @FlyTruJet @ushapadhee1996

— Belagavi Airport (@aaiblgairport) May 20, 2019

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Now that the voting is over and the candidates are taking a breather, the citizens are busy in giving their opinions with reasons as to who could win the elections, from a small tea shop to the lavish one’s point of discussion hovers around the who will win.

Well, who will be our MP would be decided on 23-5-2019 and the entire counting process will be held at RPD College, Tilakwadi Belagavi.

Counting of votes is the last major step towards the culmination of the election process.

Persons allowed in counting hall:
i) counting supervisors and counting assistants;
ii) persons authorized by the Election Commission;
iii) public servants on duty in connection with the election;
iv) candidates, their election agents and counting agents.

Maximum 16 tables are put up in a counting hall
The counting will be done on the table arranged in rows. The tables in each row will be serially numbered. 

On each counting table, the seating arrangement for the counting agents shall be made having regard to the following categories or priority, namely:-
(i) candidates of National parties;
(ii) candidates of State parties;
(iii) candidates of State parties of other States who have been permitted to use their reserved symbols in the Constituency;
(iv) candidates of registered-unrecognized parties;
(v) independent candidates.

Every person inside the counting hall is required by law to maintain, and aid in maintaining, the secrecy of voting and should not communicate to any person any information calculated to violate such secrecy.

Actual Counting process:

The counting of postal ballot papers will be taken up first. 

EVM’s received from the polling stations will be distributed to the various counting tables beginning with the EVM of polling station No.1 being distributed to table No.1 and so on.

Only one EVM will be opened at a time for the purpose of checking of identity marks. 

Power switch provided in the rear compartment of the control unit will be put to ‘ON’ position. The ‘ON’ lamp in the Display Section of the control unit will then glow green.
(ii) The paper seal over the ‘Result I’ Button provided beneath the upper aperture of the inner cover of Result Section will be pierced through.
(iii) The ‘Result I’ Button will then be pressed.
(iv) At the ‘Result I’ button being so pressed, the total number of votes recorded for each candidate at the polling station shall be displayed automatically in the Display Panels of the control unit.

There are 57 contesting candidates and the total number of votes polled at the polling station would be displayed serially one after another.

Due to this, there could be a little delay in the declaration of the winner.

As the votes secured by each candidate are displayed on the Display Panels of the control unit, the counting supervisor shall, as mentioned above, record the number of such votes separately in respect of each candidate in ‘Part II – Result of Counting’ of Form 17C.

The officer incharge of compiling the final result and preparing the Final Result Sheet in Form 20 shall make entries in that form showing the votes polled by each candidate polling stationwise, strictly in accordance with the entries made in ‘Part II – Result of Counting’ of Form 17C in respect of each polling station.

In case Equality of votes

If two candidates contesting for any seat happen to secure the highest number of votes and their votes are equal in number the result will be decided by lot.
Example- If in a constituency A, B, C and D are the contesting candidates and the total number of votes they have secured is as follows-
A – 12,703
B – 17,567
C – 17,567
D – 16,394
A lot will be drawn between B and C, who have each polled the highest number of votes and the person whose name is drawn will be elected.

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A trivia after a long time we are back with a few questions.

One more dose of Trivia about the city of Belagavi.

Do share your scores

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A city with a water body enjoys several stories to claim its own. Delhi and the Jamuna, Kolkata and the Hoogly, Sangli with it’s Warna and Krishna, Pune with the (now) tiny but very much its own Mula and Mutha. You get the drift. Stories of floods, of its fertile soil, swimming lessons and also of drowning abound.

Belagavi, a sweet little cozy city, does not have a river of its own. The Tamraparni, Malaprabha, Hiranyakeshi are all miles away. But Belagavi has had its share of the water bodies, the jewel in the crown being the Fort Lake. The lake, with an island to boast and stories of sightings of the crocodiles make for a good recreation place today. It also greets visitors as they enter the city by road. It shines by the day and buzzes by the night. Flanked by the Fort, it is definitely an attraction. Apparently, the island is a result of the de-siltation activity years ago.

The other cousins are perched on the hillock towards Hindalga, now in a set of 5, separated by embankments, popularly known as Argan Lake. Although off reach for common folks, it houses several species of birds, commonly identifiable among them being the cranes, the egrets and the ibis, also several kingfishers lining the banks and atop cattle. Before being taken over by the KHB buildings, the place right below the railway overbridge used to be a lake.

We often gauged the rainfall by the expanse of the lake, many times spreading right upto the Raghavendra Swami matha. I have witnessed the whole of the left hand side of the bridge being submerged during the eighties, for many years before buildings sprung up.

The Kapileshwar pond came abuzz mainly during the Ganesh festival but otherwise, it used to be tranquil. It will lose its identity once the flyover becomes functional.

Belagavi, however, does have its share of huge open span wells, the Congress well being right at the forefront. It has shrunk in size after the renovation and appears tamed now with all its enclosures. But it used to ooze enough oomph and mystery in its heyday. The well at Hutatma Chowk (Kaveri Cold drinks) is synonymous with its twelve pulleys or Gadgada. Joshi mala in Khasbag has a huge open well where a large population of Belagavi claims to have learned to swim.

A superb well lies locked behind Bharatesh High School, finely built and with clean waters. A huge water body has reluctantly sprung up beside Big Bazar, owing to massive digging for foundation work as also near Gomatesh High School, where even buffaloes are found bathing in the evenings. The small lake at Angol barely has any personality of its own, largely due to its wild vegetation. The moat around the Belagavi Fort is filled with water for a major part of the year, especially after some showers.

A water body, however small, brings with it a unique charm. Birds, animals use it as a watering hole, cattle dot the periphery while humans frolic. It also runs the risk of flooding when it’s too close. Whatever Belagavi has in the name of water, is thankfully clean, unlike Bangalore or other places where lakes have turned toxic and frothy. Whatever space a water- body would have occupied, Belagaviites have in their hearts! And their eyes do water with empathy. That’s more than enough

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We recently had posted, Open Well Project a boon for water supply in Belagavi, in which there was also mention of the Shetty Galli well.

The well at Shetty Galli was constructed by the British in 1885. The well is perfectly rectangular in shape and the dimension of the well is exactly the same both at the top and the bottom (in mm).

But now the surroundings of the well are like a garbage dump. People urinate near the well and all the garbage is dumped in the vicinity.

This, in particular, is a high yielding well on which a filter plant is also installed and was one of the first wells to be included in this open well project.

Earlier the entire surroundings of the well were well maintained as there were a wall and entry was restricted but during the road widening the said compound wall removed and after that, it has turned into a urinating spot at night and all the vegetable vendors dump the garbage there only.

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The incident has come to light on Wednesday morning that a mother and her 7-year-old committed suicide on the railway track near Gandhi Nagar, Belagavi.

Renuka Yelappa Gutguddi (35) and Laxman (7) were killed while Savita’s 12-year-old daughter managed to flee after hitting her on the mother’s hand.

The family is originally from Kargulpi in Hukkeri taluka. For a couple of years, husband, wife and their two children lived in the shed in Marutinagar area near Gandhinagar and made their living by selling vegetables. Neighbors say that there was a constant dispute between husband and wife. On Tuesday night, the fight got fierce.

Later in the night Renuka along with her 12-year-old girl Savita and seven-year-old Lakshman brought them near the railway track. The track from their living shade is only a hundred meters. 

Savita managed to hit her mother’s hand and fled away but mother and son came under the running train, the police said.

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