Make Moodalagi taluk headquarters: BS Yeddyurappa
Even the DC had recommended to the government that it should be declared a taluk, Mr Yeddyurappa said in a statement here.
Bengaluru: State BJP chief, B.S. Yeddyurappa on Thursday backed his party leader, Balachandra Jarkiholi’s demand for the creation of a new taluk in Belagavi with Moodalagi as its headquarters. Moodalagi is presently part of the district’s Gokak taluk.
“Moodalagi in Gokak taluk fulfils all criteria for a taluk. It has 16 gram panchayats with 42 villages and a population of 1,34,914. Even the DC had recommended to the government that it should be declared a taluk,” Mr Yeddyurappa said in a statement here.
Calling the demand “just and genuine,” he regretted that the Congress government in the state had not given any credible and convincing reason for dropping Moodaligi from the list of new taluks announced.
“A new taluk is formed to improve the quality of administration and make governance more effective in the interests of the people. Three committees on re-organisation of taluks, the Vasudeva Rao Committee in 1973, the T.M. Hundekar Committee in 1984 and the P.C. Gaddigoudar Committee of 1986 have all recommended formation of 43 new taluks. The BJP government had in 2013 taken into consideration the recommendations of these committees and announced formation of a new Moodalagi taluk,” he recalled, urging the state government to revise the list of new taluks to include Moodalagi among them.