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Indian Social Forum takes Cong to task for ignoring Gulf NRKs in poll manifesto

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April 29, 2018

Dammam, Apr 29: The Indian Social Forum, Saudi Arabia, has expressed disappointment that Karnataka’s ruling Congress in its recently released manifesto for May 12 assembly polls has ignored non-resident Kannadigas (NRKs) scattered across Gulf Cooperation Council. 

In a release issued here the ISF said: “After several promises made by the Karnataka’s ruling party, Gulf NRI community was expecting welfare programs for them to be included in its manifesto. However, the manifesto has disappointed large number of NRIs from Karnataka in the GCC countries as the Congress party failed to address their issues.”

The ISF further said that the Congress should have considered wellbeing of Gulf NRI community at least after numerous appeals from NRI groups to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and others in the wake of economic crisis in the Middle East.

Recent World bank report confirms, India topped the highest recipient of remittance overseas in 2017 and particularly 50% of remittance made from Indian diaspora in GCC countries, however Karnataka is also beneficiary of this remittance.

Notably, NRI community from Karnataka’s coastal belt has been an influential community back home as there are many families, institutions depend on Gulf NRIs remittance. In light of Gulf Job market crisis, Indian Social Forum, Saudi Arabia is requesting the Congress party to revisits the manifesto to include realistic welfare programs to protect the Gulf NRIs and their family’s interest. We hope such move would fetch the Congress party to gain positive impact among influential Gulf NRI community and would also be beneficial for the country’s development, the release said.

The Indian Social Forum has appealed the Congress party to include following points on its Election manifesto:
1-    NRI Help Desk in Coastal Districts, Mysuru, Bengaluru and Gulbarga
2-    Educational Quota for Gulf NRI students
3-    NRI Data Bank – Statistical survey of NRI population, remittance and other statistics
4-    Create online platform to raise NRI individual concerns and issues
5-    Free Medical aid for Gulf Returnee
6-    Assurance of Fund allocation for Gulf NRIs welfare
7-    Grant Bank Loan for the aspiring Gulf returnee entrepreneurs

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July 19,2020

Mangaluru, Jul 19: Palakkad Division of Southern Railway that has jurisdiction over Mangaluru Railway region has established a business development unit (BDU) to cater to the transportation of various sectors, including non-bulk goods traffic, namely, white goods, finished products, manufactured products, agricultural produce and raw material.

In a statement issued here on Sunday said that the BDU’s mandate was to facilitate seamless interaction between the Railways on the one hand and industry, trade representatives and rail freight customers on the other at appropriate zonal or divisional levels. The unit was also expected to help expeditious clearance of their proposals for freight movement.

Palakkad Divisional Railway Manager Pratap Singh Shami established the BDU in line with the similar unit at the zonal level with other divisions of SR too setting up similar units. Palakkad BDU would work under the supervision of Additional DRM-II CT Sakkeer Hussain while Senior Divisional Operations Manager PL Ashok Kumar was its convener with Senior Divisional Commercial Manager Jerin G Anand, Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer KV Sundaresan and Senior Divisional Finance Manager AP Sivachandrar were its members.

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August 7,2020

Madikeri, Aug 7: Two days after massive landslides triggered by heavy downpour in Kodagu, five people including a priest are still missing. 

The landslide, which originating at Brahmagiri Hills in Talacauvery, swept away two houses on Wednesday night.

This missing people are: Talacauvery temple chief Narayana Achar (70), his wife Shantha (70), brother Ananda Theertha Swami (87) and two assistants — Ravi Kiran (26) and Srinivas (30). Achar’s neighbour had shifted out of Bhagamandala earlier, fearing a landslide. 

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) had to stop rescue operations due to bad weather. The operations resumed today. 

“There are many minor landslides on the way to the spot,” said Kodagu Deputy Commissioner C Annies K Joy, adding that the flood situation at Bhagamandala was not permitting earthmovers to reach the spot. Heavy rain between Wednesday and Thursday triggered landslides. 

Bhagamandala Panchayat Development Officer Ashok said a notice was issued to the priest’s family to shift out of the house, but they chose to stay back. 

On Thursday morning, when the Talacauvery temple staff went to check on Narayana Achar, as he had not reached the temple for the daily puja, they found levelled land and debris where Achar’s house stood. Utensils, puja material and clothes were found nearly 2 km away at Cherangala. 

As rains continued over the last few days, many rivers are flowing above the danger levels, forcing people to move to safer places.

 Responding to the situation, which is turning grimmer by the day, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, who is currently undergoing treatment in a private hospital after testing positive for Covid-19, directed ministers to visit rain-hit areas and supervise relief efforts. He has also assured of providing required financial assistance for those affected.

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July 30,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 30: Karnataka reported 83 deaths and 6,128 new cases in the state on Thursday. With this, the total number of cases in the state stood at 1,18,632, the state health ministry said.

Currently, there are 69,700 active cases, while a total of 2,230 people have lost their lives due to the pandemic till now.

There are 15,83,792 confirmed cases across the country. Of them, 5,28,242 cases remain active. While 10,20,582 have recovered, 34,968 patients have lost their lives due to the pandemic.

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