Two villages to be relocated.

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Bangalore, Aug 21 (UNI) The Karnataka Chief minister H D Kumaraswamy will lay foundation stone for shifting of two worst flood affected villages situated on the banks of river Bhima in Afzalpur taluk ofn Gulbarga district.

The Janata Dal (S) legislator from Afzalpur assembly constituency Mr M Y Patil, informed UNI that Mr Kumaraswamy was scheduled to visit Afzalpur taluk tomorrow and lay foundation stone for shifting two villages, Kodiganur and Dudhanigi which were fully submerged in the recent floods providing relief to 3000 people living in these two villages..

Mr Patil said Afzalpur taluk was the worst affected in the recent floods caused by heavy discharge of water from Ujini and Veerbhatkal reservoirs in Maharashtra. Four people were washed away in the taluk, with standing crops in thousands of acres damaged.

Mr Kumaraswamy who arrives from Mudhol in Bijapur district would halt at Mannur village, the last village of the state bordering Karnataka, where the Bhima enters from Maharashtra, Mr Patil said.

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