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Bunts Hostel Circle, Karangalpady area wear a new look after cleanliness drive

Media Release
December 31, 2017

Mangaluru, Dec 31: Ramakrishna Mission’s Swacchata Abhiyan completed ninth week’s shramadan on December 31 at Bunts Hostel circle and Karangalpady area in the city. Srinivas Patil of KPES Institution, Dharwad and Madan, SI of Bunder Police Station jointly flagged off the drive. Dr Satish Rao, Dr Rajendra Prasad, Prabhakar Shetty and more than 100 volunteers were present on the occasion.

Cleanliness Drive: Volunteers under the guidance of Sri Shobhoday Alva & Dr Satish Rao carried out the drive from Bunts Hostel circle. They cleaned both sides of the road and removed the grass & weeds from the footpaths. Sri Prakash Garodi & team of volunteers removed the posters and handbills pasted on the walls and bus shelters of the Bunts Hostel and the walls were cleaned and painted anew. A spot in front of Karnagalpady market area was full of dirt & garbage thrown by the shopkeepers and public. That spot was thoroughly cleaned off the garbage & dirt and the wall was washed and cleaned. Flower pots have been kept in that spot and the shopkeepers have been urged not to throw garbage in that spot and to maintain the cleanliness and water the plants. Sri Dilraj Alva led the group of volunteers.

Erection of railings: The barricade put up in front of Karnagalpady Auto stand was badly maintained and was being shifted from time to time. It was occupying more space and was posing nuisance to traffic police & two wheelers. Dirt & garbage had piled up below the barricade and was an eyesore to the onlookers. Hence volunteers under Sri Kirankumar Poojari experimentally set up a thin railing which not only serves the purpose but also occupies less space.

Swacchata App Drive: Downloading & using Swacchata App is a major component of the public participation in the Swacch sarvekshan being undertaken by the Central Government. There was a very poor response from the citizens of Mangalore last year due to lack of awareness. Hence the volunteers of Ramakrishna Mission not only downloaded and started using themselves but are also urging all the public since last 4 days. Till last week, only 363 apps were downloaded and after the volunteers of Ramakrishna Mission took up the task, about 2500 apps have been downloaded till yesterday and the number may cross 3500 before the deadline of 31st December sets in. Today being the last day, volunteers are focusing public visiting City centre Mall, Forum Fiza Mall, Corporation Bank Head Office, Sahyadri College, SDM College and other places. They are also visiting door to door urging the public to download the app and start using. Young volunteers under the guidance of Souraj, Shishir Amin, Dhanush Shetty, Abhishek V S, Amit J, Anil and others were actively involved in this drive. Sri M R Vasudev & Sri Umanath Kotekar led and coordinated the efforts.

Swacch Gram: Ramakrishna Mission Swacch Kayarthadka was flagged off by Swami Jitakamanandaji at Kayarthadka. President of Village Panchayat, Smt. Sharada, President of Sri Umamaheshwara Temple Sri Balanna Gowda & President of the local mosque Sri Abdulla participated.  Members of Yuvashakti Kayarthadka, Kombashree Yuvaka Mandala & public participated in the cleanliness drive that lasted for nearly 3hours. Sri Yogish coordinated the drive. Drives were also carried out in Malavoor, Yedapadavu and other places. MRPL is sponsoring this drive.

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shahid
 - 
Monday, 1 Jan 2018

Kindly pressurise mangalore corporation to ban the film posters in the entire city and outskirts ....insted it should be advertised through newspapers, electronic media etc...... nowadays there is many options to promote a movie..... this theatre owners are still in 80s.....this posters are spoiling the beauty of city

zahoor ahmed
 - 
Monday, 1 Jan 2018

Clean and Green Mangalore.

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May 12,2020

Mangaluru, May 12: The first repatriation flight to Mangaluru from Dubai with nearly 180 passengers landed at the international airport here. 

The total passengers, including 88 men, 84 women, five children and two infants arrived by the Air India Express flight IX 384 late Tuesday night, airport sources said.

There were 12 medical emergency cases and 38 pregnant women among them, they said. The district administration had made arrangements for receiving the passengers, who were provided with sanitizers and masks. They were advised to maintain social distancing as per the health protocol.

All the foreign returnees were screened as per the standard operating procedure to ensure that they were asymptomatic.

The passengers were taken to their chosen place of accommodation in KSRTC buses. They will be undergoing a 14-day quarantine in the places, which will be monitored by doctors assigned by the health department. More than 17 hotels and 12 hostels have been arranged for the accommodation of the returnees.

Passengers were also asked to download the mandatory 'Aroygya Sethu' app for contact tracing. Rahul Shinde IAS who is in charge of arranging quarantine facilities, airport director V V Rao and district health officer Ramachandra Bairy were present at the airport.

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April 21,2020

Apr 21: An 80-year-old COVID-19 patient has died in Karnataka's Kalaburagi district, taking the death toll in the state to 17, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said on Tuesday.

The elderly person was suffering from Parkinson's disease for the last three years and died at a hospital on Monday, the minister said in a tweet.

"The person had developed fever on Sunday and was admitted to the hospital. The patient passed away yesterday at 9 am. Last night at 9 pm the death report came, which confirmed that the person was COVID-19 positive," Sudhakar tweeted.

The total number of COVID-19 infections in the state has crossed the 400-mark, according to last evening's bulletin by the Karnataka health department.

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March 8,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 8: The economic slowdown in the country had a cascading effect on Karnataka, as its growth rate for outgoing fiscal 2019-20 is projected to be 6.8 per cent against 7.8 per cent in the last fiscal (2018-19), a senior official said on Saturday.

"The Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) is estimated to be 1 per cent less at 6.8 per cent for this fiscal from 7.8 per cent in the last fiscal due to slowdown in manufacturing (industry) and services sectors," an official of the state finance department told media.

Though the agriculture sector has revived from 1.6 per dent in the drought-hit last fiscal (2018-19) to register 3.9 per cent this fiscal, growth rates of industries and services will be 4.8 per cent and 7.9 per cent for 2019-20 against 5.6 per cent and 9.8 per cent respectively in 2018-19.

"The GSDP is projected to grow at 6.3 per cent in the ensuing fiscal of 2020-21 due to continued slowdown in the national economy," the official hinted.

According to the state's economic survey for 2019-20, the farm sector grew more than double to 3.9 per cent from 1.6 per cent a year ago due to increase in the production of foodgrains, dairy products and fish catch.

Foodgrain production across the state rose to 136 lakh tonnes from 128 lakh tonnes a year ago, the survey revealed.

"In line with the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate decline, Karnataka's GSDP has declined from a high of 13.3 per cent in 2016-17 to a low of 6.8 per cent in 2019-20.

"The GSDP has declined from a double-digit growth of 10.8 per cent in 2017-18 to 7.8 per cent in 2018-19 and 6.8 per cent in 2019-20," the survey pointed out.

The survey has adopted the all-India growth rate for the services sector growth in the state, which reflects the impact of slowdown in the key sector.

At current prices, the southern state's GSDP is expected to be Rs 16,99,115 crore (budget estimates) with a 10 per cent growth rate in the next fiscal (2020-21).

"Real estate, professional services and ownership of dwellings contributed 35.31 per cent to the GSDP in 2019-20, followed by manufacturing with 15.32 per cent, trade and repair services 9.51 per cent and crops 7.44 per cent," said the survey findings.

Per capital income in the state at current prices is estimated to be Rs 2,31,246 in 2019-20, an increase of 8.8 per cent from Rs 2,12,477 in 2018-19.

"The per capita income in the state is 58.4 per cent more than that of all-India rate at Rs 1,35,050 in this fiscal," the survey added.

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