Bengaluru, April 30 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Thursday said that the work on the Yettinahole Integrated Drinking Water Supply Project will start within a week.

The remarks came after a Social Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) meeting.

"I had a meeting on this Yettinahole Project. It is a premier drinking water project. I think all the hurdles have been overcome; the forest department had objected. So, we are giving them permission and alternative land. They have given us a notice to give them Rs 257 Crores. I have asked my Department to fill that Rs 257 Crores today itself. We are going to start the work within 1 week," he said.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the Deputy CM held a review meeting to d...