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Mangaluru | Pumpwell, Thokkottu flyovers will be ready by January 2019: NHAI

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November 18, 2018

Mangaluru, Nov 18: In a fresh promise, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has said that it would complete the speed up the flyover work at Pumpwell and Thokkottu and complete them in two months. 

Speaking to reporters after inspecting the ongoing works at Pumpwell on Sunday, Nalin Kumar Kateel, MP, said the NHAI and the concessionaire of the project Navyug Udupi Tollway Pvt. Ltd. have assured that the flyover work would be completed by the end of January. Another flyover at Thokkottu would be completed by the end of next month and traffic would be allowed on it from February.

Z. Samson Vijay Kumar, Project Director, NHAI, Mangaluru, said that an underpass for light motor vehicles and pedestrians would come up at Ujjodi near Mahakali temple. As pre-cast concrete boxes would be fixed at the underpass, the project at Pumpwell would not be delayed beyond February, he added.

Mr. Kateel said that though the flyover at Pumpwell had been sanctioned in 2010, in reality the project took off in 2016. It was delayed due to four factors. The Mangaluru City Corporation delayed changing the design of the project in view of its bus stand project planned in front of Karnataka Bank Headquarters at Pumpwell. There was delay by the State government in getting land for the project and demolishing buildings in acquiring land for the same. Also, the concessionaire ran out of money.

The MP said that there was no need for the Congress to rake up the flyover issue politically. It should instead introspect on why the new bridge project across the Netravati at Panemangalore took 14 years to complete and why the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government took 13 years to complete the B.C. Road-Mukka Highway four-lane project, he added.

Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner Sasikanth Senthil S. on Saturday sought the weekly progress report from the NHAI on the Pumpwell and Thokkottu flyover projects.

He told the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee meeting that the NHAI had been misguiding meetings over the progress of the projects. Mr. Senthil said the real problem was with the NHAI and not the concessionaire. The NHAI is bound to get the projects done fast.

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abdullah
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Monday, 19 Nov 2018

Wow nalin woke up from sleep!!!!

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May 15,2020

Mangaluru, May 15: Dakshina Kannada saw a record spike in the number of fresh COVID-19 cases today, which triggered panic among the people of the district, which is currently under orange zone.   

According to the mid-day bulletin of the Department of Health and Family Welfare, as many as 16 people from Dakshina Kannada tested positive for the covid-19. 

Among them 15 are the Gulf returnees who were brought by an Air India Express special flight from Dubai to Mangaluru International Airport on May 12. 

As many as 179 repatriates had landed at Mangaluru Airport. Among them 125 are quarantined in Dakshina Kannada, 49 in Udupi and five in Uttara Kannada districts.  

Meanwhile, a 68-year-old woman from Surathkal area in Mangaluru, who is suffering from Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) was also tested covid-19 positive.

This is the highest number of cases reported in a single day since first case registered in the district on March 22 when Dubai-bound youth from Bhatkal was tested positive. 

With this the total number of covid-19 cases in the district mounted to 50 including five deaths. Many of them have returned home after recovery.

3 members of a family test positive

According to Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh, three members of a same family are among 15 gulf returnees who are tested positive.  They are a 45-year-old man, his 33-year-old wife and their 6-year-old child. 

Six among those who tested positive today are above 60 years of age, said the deputy commissioner. 
 

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July 28,2020

Mangaluru, July 28: A screenshot of a death threat message against IAS officer Sindhu B Rupesh, the deputy commissioner of Dakshina Kannada, is now going viral on social media.

The threat comes in the wake of the Deputy Commissioner’s warning against attack on cattle traders by anti-social elements ahead of Eid al-Adha. 

It is learnt that a discussion was held about DC’s warning in a pro-Hindutva WhatsApp group. The death threat was issued in the same group in Tulu language. 

A police officer said that if the deputy commissioner doesn’t lodge a complaint, the police will file a suo motu case in this regard.

Also Read: Sindhu B Rupesh transferred; Dr Rajendra K V is new DC of Dakshina Kannada

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January 5,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 5: Against the backdrop of Mangalore violence of December 19, Additional Director General of Police of Karnataka Amar Kumar Pandey visited the city and held a meeting with senior police officers.

According to senior police officials here on Sunday, Dakshina Kannada and Udupi District Muslim Central Committee had planned to hold a protest against CAA at Nehru Maidan while the SKSSF had called for anti-CAA protest at State Bank area.

Though both the protests had been called off, there was an apprehension of a repeat incident of December 19 violence and hence the ADGP visited the city at the behest of state government and monitored the situation here for the entire day on Saturday.

The ADGP was unhappy that despite initial inputs and the imposition of Section 144 in the city, the situation on that day escalated to a level where police had to resort to firing only in this city.

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