MCC presents surplus budget; projects Rs 257.66 cr revenue, Rs 257.60 cr expenditure

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February 14, 2013

Mangalore, Feb 14: The Council of Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) here on Thursday approved the surplus budget of Rs 6.04 lakh for the 2013-14 fiscal year, in the budget presentation session chaired by Mayor Gulzar Banu.

The annual budget presented by President of Standing Committee on Taxation and Finance Shantha R projects a total revenue of Rs 257.66 crore, and proposes expenditure of Rs 257.60 crore.

Similar to the previous year, the revenue of the MCC for the year 2013-14 includes Rs 35 crore from water tariff, Rs 29 crore from self-assessment of property tax, Rs 1.3 crore from trade licenses, Rs 7.26 from building regulation and development fees, Rs 3.69 from markets, Rs 15 crore in the form of solid waste collection fees and funds from the government and other sources.

Water supply

A sum of Rs 34.17 crore has been earmarked in the budget for the second vented dam at Thumbe, which is expected to meet the drinking water needs of the city till 2026. As the storage capacity of the vented dam is limited to the storage of water required for 45 days, work on a new vented dam has commenced through the grant of Rs 75.50 crore by Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board. Almost 30 per cent of the works on the new vented dam have been completed and the remaining works have commenced. The corporation has spent Rs 19.75 crore on the vented dam. Once it is completed in May 2014, efforts will be made to supply water to all areas under the MCC, said Shantha R.

Development programmes

The budget has allocated a total of Rs 17.95 crore for various developmental works, including Rs 13.50 crore for development work, Rs 3.07 crore for SC/ST welfare programmes, Rs 98 lakh for social welfare and eradication of poverty, Rs 40.50 lakh for welfare of disabled persons and Rs 7 crore for payment of other bills.

Computerisation

The corporation expected a sum of Rs 3 crore from the government for the computerisation of all departments of the MCC in order to provide better services to the citizens. Efforts will be made in coming days to provide all the information related to the Corporation departments online to the public.

Kuteera Bhagya

A sum of Rs 70 lakh has been reserved in the budget for the Kuteera Bhagya scheme this year, and Rs 2 lakh for the Kuteera Jyothi scheme to provide electricity connections to BPL beneficiaries.

Awareness for students

The budget has earmarked a sum of Rs 5 lakh for the scheme to conduct awareness programmes among students studying in fifth to seventh standard in government schools, on misuse and storage of water, water purification and sewage treatment plants.

Waste collection

A sum of Rs 25 crore has been reserved for solid-waste management for the fiscal year 2013-14.

The contract of door- to-door collection of solid waste has been provided to eight contractors, who have begun collecting waste from houses. Out of 60 wards under the MCC, waste segregated dry and wet waste is being collected in two separate bins in two wards (Mannagudda and Court wards). Collection of segregated waste will begin in other wards in the coming days.

Bulk waste will be collected from hotels, canteens, juice centres, caterers, marriage halls and meat and chicken stalls and processed separately.

The construction of a market in Bejai and a fish market in Jeppu is going on. The MCC is planning to construct another fish market in Kuloor and a bus stand for commuters.

Reactions

Presenting his views, Corporator Harinath said that that the amount of Rs 10 lakh allocated to victims of natural disasters was insufficient, and so was the sum of Rs 35 crore allocated for construction of houses for the poor. The amount allocated for the construction of the fish market has not been mentioned. There is also a necessity for a market in Kavoor, he said, and added that there was no mention in the budget of allotment of rickshaw parking facilities.

Former Mayor Shankar Bhat pressed for the need to allocate funds for the construction of a railway underbridge at Jeppu-Kutpady.

Corporator James pressed for allocation of Rs 10-15 crore for the construction of a new bus stand at Pumpwell junction, while yet another objected to the non-allotment of funds for laying pavements on the sides of concretised roads in the city.

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February 26,2020

Mumbai, Feb 26: Targetting Shiv Sena's silence over the recent controversial remark by AIMIM leader Waris Pathan, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said the Uddhav Thackeray-led party might be "wearing bangles" but the BJP was not and knew how to retaliate in the same manner.

"Shiv Sena might be wearing bangles but we are not. If someone says something then he will be given an answer in the same way. BJP has this much power," said Fadnavis while launching a scathing attack on ruling-Shiv Sena in Maharashtra for not taking strict action against Pathan.

Fadnavis was addressing protestors at Azad Maidan where BJP launched a protest against Maharashtra government over issues related to farmers and women.

On February 20, while addressing an anti-CAA rally, at Kalaburagi in Karnataka, Pathan had said, "time has now come for us to unite and achieve freedom. Remember we are 15 crore but can dominate over 100 crores."

"They tell us that we have kept our women in the front - only the lionesses have come out and you are already sweating. You can understand what would happen if all of us come together," he had said.

Facing flak over his remarks Pathan later took back his words and had said he had not targeted any community but had spoken against members of some organisations.

"If any of my words have hurt someone, I take them back as I am a true Indian," Pathan said at a press conference here.

The AIMIM leader said that he was being portrayed as being anti-Indian and anti-Hindu for the past couple of days.

"I want to say that my earlier statement was basically against people who are members of organisations like RSS, BJP, Bajrang Dal, etc. These 100 are those people who want to divide this beautiful nation," he added.

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July 10,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 10: With 2,313 more people testing positive for coronavirus in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, its overall tally of patients rose to 33,418 on Friday, health officials said.

57 patients died in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, with majority (27) of them from Bengaluru, taking the state''s death toll to 543, the officials added.

Bengaluru accounted for 1,447 or 63 per cent of the new COVID-19 cases, spiking its tally to 15,329, out of which 11,687 are active cases.

The city alone accounts for 46 per cent of all the cases in the state.

As many as 45 deaths had Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) as a common symptom.

Among the new cases, excluding Bengaluru, Dakshina Kannada accounted for 139 infections, followed by Vijayapura (89), Ballari (66), Kalaburagi (58), Yadgir and Mysuru (51 each) among others.

On Friday, a record 1,003 patients got discharged, 601 of them in Bengaluru alone with the total number of discharges rising up to 13,836.

Until now, Karnataka has tested 7.79 lakh samples for Covid, out of which 7.28 lakh tested negative.

Despite the record number of discharges, patients in ICU rose to 472.

Of the 33,418 cases, 19,035 are active in the state.

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August 9,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 9: karnataka's Health Minister B Sriramulu has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. He has been hospitalised and is being treated for Covid-19. The minister has also asked all of those who came in contact with him recently to take necessary precautions.

Sriramulu made the announcement in a series of tweets on Sunday. He said, “After symptoms of flu, I have tested positive for coronavirus today.”

“Under the leadership of Honorable Chief Minister (BS Yediyurappa), all the departments of the government, including my department, have been working hard against Covid-19. From the time of corona's appearance, I have had the opportunity to visit 30 districts and work in harmony with the government's desire to treat people well. It is in this backdrop that I am going to be hospitalized and treated,” B Sriramulu said.

Karnataka’s Health Minister also added, “All those who have been in contact with me recently have been requested to take precautionary measures.”

Earlier this month, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa also tested positive for Covid-19. The state's Leader of Opposition and former CM Siddaramaiah of the Congress also declared that his samples too had returned positive for the infection. Both of the leaders are undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at the privately-owned Manipal hospital in Bengaluru.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Karnataka has 79,773 active cases while a total of 89,238 patients have been discharged in the state after recovering from Covid-19 and 3091 have succumbed to it.

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