Tourism industry badly hit in Kodagu due to natural calamity

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September 30, 2018

Madikeri, Sep 30: Picturesque Kodagu nestled in the Western Ghats, known as the favorite tourist destinations in the South India besides being the top coffee producer in the country, has been severely affected in the tourism sector due to natural calamity last month.

The coffee land always been a best tourist destination, but after the rain havoc and landslides resulting bad hit for the tourism besides its economy as whole. Still people yet to recover from the shock, of course required many days.

Kodagu also known for home stays which has been great demand particularly during the weekends, however, the situation is different now with very few callers for home stay.

People, who were operating home stays and others who depended upon tourism for their livelihood after investing lakhs of rupees, have been badly affected without any business in recent days. A majority of hotel and home stay owners, who had employed hundreds of workers, have sent them back to their native.

Going by official figures, as many as 18 lakh footfalls had been registered at the tourist spots of the district in the first half of this year. However, tourism took a severe beating since August when the district administration had banned visitors for safety purpose.

Even though the ban on tourists was lifted on September 10, the devastating floods and landslides have discouraged visitors from thronging the tourist spots. Only a few, majority of them youths, are visiting Dubare Elephant Camp, Cauvery Nisargadhama, Raja Seat, Abbey Falls, Irupu Falls,  Mallalli Falls, Harangi Reservoir and other tourist destinations.

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Mohan
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Sunday, 30 Sep 2018

Without Modi govt support, Karnataka govt can't do anything on this matter. Kodagu people's revenew based on the local tourism. 

Suresh Bandary
 - 
Sunday, 30 Sep 2018

Central Govt should allocate more fund for the reconstruction of Kodagu. 

Ibrahim
 - 
Sunday, 30 Sep 2018

Land mafia ruling tourism business. They may improve the condition soon inorder to earn more benefit

Kumar
 - 
Sunday, 30 Sep 2018

Resort mafias should be controlled

Danish
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Sunday, 30 Sep 2018

Unnatural construction caused landslides and deluge. Reconstruction should be focus on nature friendly and without disturbing ecosystem.

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July 11,2020

Mangaluru, Jul 11: Under the fourth phase of Vande Bharat Mission, the government of India has announced as many as 42 repatriation flights from Saudi Arabia to various Indian destinations including four flights to Karnataka. 

On July 25 an Air India flight will fly from Dammam International Airport to Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru.

On July 26 another Air India flight will take off from Dammam and land in Bengaluru and then again it will continue its journey till Mangaluru International Airport. 

On July 27, Air India will operate a flight from Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport to Bengaluru. 

On July 28, Air India will operate another flight from Jeddah to Mangaluru. It will be the last flight from Saudi to Karnataka under the fourth phase of Vande Bharat Mission.

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January 12,2020

Mangalore, Jan 12: Thieves reportedly stole around 70,000 cash from a MESCOM ATP machine located at Chembugudde in Thokkottu, Police said here on Sunday.

Police said that the theft took place in the MESCOM sub-division office at Chembugudde. It was said that the thieves broke open the room where the MESCOM customers bill payment machine was located and stole 70,000 rupees cash from the ATP machine.

This machine had nine lakh rupees cash. The amount was reported to have been transferred at around 1500 hrs on Saturday.

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June 4,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 4: All shops, offices, malls, commercial establishments and others in Karnataka must not allow Covid-stamped people to enter their premises before the completion of the prescribed quarantine time, said a top official on Wednesday.

"They should not allow those with quarantine stamp to enter before the end of their quarantine period or till they get current Covid negative test report," ordered Chief Secretary T.M. Vijay Bhaskar.

Bhaskar has also issued the order to all religious places, hotels and others to first check for quarantine stamp on all their customers or visitors before they enter the premises.

"All shops, commercial establishments, offices, factories, malls, religious places, hotels and etc.. are required to check for quarantine stamp on all their customers or visitors before they enter the premises," he said.

In the event of a violation, Bhaskar said the police should be informed at 100.

He issued the same order to the general public and resident welfare associations asking them to be vigilant.

"General public and resident welfare associations are advised to report any violation of the quarantine in their neighbourhood to the police at telephone number 100," said the chief secretary.

The orders came under the head aRole of general public, resident welfare associations and commercial establishments''.

General public, commercial establishments and resident welfare associations have been empowered to report quarantine violations at a time when many activities are set to reopen from June 8 as part of Unlock - 1, after more than two months of lockdown.

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