Mangaluru stares at worst water crisis

November 7, 2016

Mangaluru, Nov 7: With the receding rains and the Indian Meteorological Department predicting that there will be no more continuous rains in the coastal Karnataka this year, the city of Mangaluru is staring at another water crisis.

water Deputy Commissioner Dr K G Jagadeesha has hinted that Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC)?will supply water to its citizens on alternate days from January 1, 2017 if the inflow of water to the Thumbe vented dam declines.

“If there was good inflow of water to the dam, then water will be supplied daily. In the wake of the city facing acute shortage of water during last April-May, the district administration has chalked out measures to mitigate the water crisis,” he said.

The maximum storage level of the old dam is 13 feet. About 160 MLD (million litres a day) of water was being lifted from Thumbe dam for the city daily and only 90 MLD of water was available for distribution.

Jagadeesha, the work on painting the new vented dam built across River Nethravathi should be completed by November end. The work on closing the gate of the new vented dam should also be completed by month end. The water upto five metre in the dam should be stored by December 10. The silt near the new Thumbe vented dam that has come up in the downstream should also be removed immediately.

The process of closing the gates of old Thumbe vented dam has been initiated and will be completed by November 15 to ensure full storage for supplying water to the city during the summer months. He directed MCC Commissioner Mohammed Nazeer to identify the exact extent of land to be submerged with the MCC storing five-metre water in new Vented dam within a week and put up a red colour flag on the area to make people aware of submerge of land.

A meeting of the farmers who will lose land will also be convened to appraise them of the situation within a week. A proposal has already been sent to the state government for the release of amount to be distributed as compensation among those who lose land.

With zero inflow of water to the dam, the water stored upto five metre would cater to the needs of the citizens for 45 days. With water available in AMR dam, the city can manage the water situation for three months, he stated.

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I guess we need to start looking at other options . Desalination plants can be a viable option, with abundantly available sea water we should use it to our advantage by having one of the plants in our region.

We should learn and also advise our kids how to save water..... authorities should start controlling water supply from now on that leaving it to zero at peak summer like last time.

no problem for me in dubai... i dont have any problem for water, if i come down then there will be a big problem.

no problem.. will get it from cauvery, siddaramaiah will not leave us.

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Congress creating confusion among Muslim over CAA, claims BSY

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January 5,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 5: BJP leader and Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa once again blamed the Congress of creating 'confusion' among the Muslim community over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act-2019 while launching a door to door campaign to dispel such rumors.

Yediyurappa was on a door-to-door campaign to make people aware of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and to allay their fears.

"Unnecessarily, the members of Congress are creating confusion among the Muslim community. I assure you that not a single Muslim will be affected because of CAA," said B. S. Yediyurappa.

"Almost all previous Prime Ministers have supported it, now Congress is creating a problem so as to create confusion among Muslims. That's why we are out on the door-to-door campaign," he said.

The Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, seeks to grant Indian citizenship to Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh and who entered India on or before December 31, 2014.

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U may confuse people with such statements but WE MUSLIMS, DALITS and some of our other HINDU Brothers are not in any Confusion on the chronology of NPR, CAA and NCR.. WE are firm that we will never allow you to go ahead with these discriminatining laws

People are NOT FOOLS to believe all your JUMLAS

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Special train carrying 1,428 migrants departs from Karnataka for Bihar

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May 12,2020

Bengaluru, May 12: The South Western Railway on Tuesday informed that a 'Shramik special train' has left Karnataka for Bihar carrying 1,428 migrants onboard.

The special train carrying migrants to Motihari, Bihar departed from Kabaka Puttur in Karnataka.

Passengers were observing social distancing norms during boarding.

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had recently granted permission for movement of stranded citizens including migrants labourers, workers, students, tourists to return to their native towns.

As per the list provided by the Karnataka government, South Western Railway is arranging special trains. These special trains are being run from point to point with no stoppages en-route.

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Two kids, aged 7 and 9, contract corona from their dad

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March 25,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 25: The COVID-19 count in Karnataka went up by 10 on Wednesday, reaching 51. The 10 new positives included two girls aged seven and nine who contracted the infection from their father.

The 34-year-old man had returned from Amsterdam on March 19 and tested positive as the 17th confirmed case in Karnataka.

Though his family were kept in isolation and under quarantine in their house, the children developed a cold. They were confirmed for COVID-19 infection while their mother is still negative.

The government remained tightlipped over whether or not a 70-year-old woman from Gouribidanuru who was put under house quarantine and died on Wednesday morning, tested positive for COVID-19. Government officials would neither confirm nor deny anything on the results of tests on the woman.

This evening’s bulletin issued by the Karnataka health department continued to indicate the strong correlation of coronavirus infection and foreign travel.

Among the positive cases identified today were

A 63-year-old Bengaluru man and his 59-year-old wife, with a history of travel to Brazil and Argentina.
Two 26-year-old men with a history of travel to Spain and arrived back in Bengaluru via Dubai.
Two others, a 63-year-old woman and her 69-year-old husband, had a history of travel to Athens and London.
A 34-year-old man, a resident of Udupi, who returned from Dubai
A 37-year old woman, a resident of Chitradurga, with a history of travel to Guyana and arrived back in Bengaluru via Delhi
Speaking to the media, medical education minister K Sudhakar said health officials were apprehensive the positives may go up tonight.

Of the corona positive cases detected in Karnataka so far, three have been discharged after quarantine, and 47 patients are in isolation at designated hospitals in a stable condition. There has been one fatality.

As per a recommendation by the high-level health committee, the government has decided to convert the Bowring Hospital into a coronavirus treatment hospital facility along with the Rajiv Gandhi Hospital for Chest Diseases and Victoria Hospital.

“The number of positive cases are growing at an alarming rate and the government needs more treatment facilities. The government is for burning of COVID-19 death cases. However, due to some religious practices, it has been decided they would be buried in 8 ft deep pits,'' Dr Sudhakar said.

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