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Mangaluru: Water crisis created by MCC to help sand mafia, says Palemar

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May 12, 2016

Mangaluru, May 12: The severe water crisis in this coastal city is in fact an artificial creation by the Mangaluru City Corporation to help the mafia engaged in sand extraction in the Netravathi, according to BJP leader and former district-in-charge minister Krishna J Palemar.

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Addressing media persons here on Thursday the minister said: “Usually the MCC officials fix gates at the Thumbe vented dam, supplying water for both drinking and industries, during November-December. But this year the gates were installed during January-February, a delay by over a month in installing the gates to store water at the dam. It was specifically to help the mafia engaged in sand extraction in the river on the upstream of the dam.”

The minister alleged that if the dam was full it was difficult for mining. The corporation has succumbed to the pressure by sand mafia. He said if water would have been stored in the dam from November itself it would have helped in re-charging of ground water on the river bank and the storage would have lasted for more days thus helping the civic body to draw water for more days.

He alleged that the move to install gates late was also to ensure that the business of supplying water through tankers thrived. The former Minister in the BJP-led State government said that now the corporation and the district administration was “shedding crocodile tears” over the scarcity.

Mr. Palemar said that supplying water through tankers without checking the quality of water being drawn from wells was dangerous to health. “It might result the breaking of communicable diseases,” he said.

The former Mayor M. Shankar Bhat said here on Thursday that the corporation should first disconnect unauthorised pipelines from the two 18-MGD (million gallons a day) capacity main pipelines of the corporation supplying water from Thumbe dam to the city. Water was being stolen between Thumbe and Padil through unauthorised pipelines.

Addressing presspersons along with the former Minister J. Krishna Palemar, he claimed that when he was the Mayor he had disconnected 95 such unauthorised pipelines. As a result there was five per cent difference in the quantity of water being pumped at Thumbe and received in the city.

Now the difference was 35 per cent. It showed that there were many such illegal pipelines now, he said.

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Friday, 13 May 2016

Opposition pagal hogayaa.... Dont know what to say.... New story....
Send all these people to modijis somalia.... People are waiting to eat them alive...... Ha hA

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April 15,2020

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Valsad is a district near Gujarat-Maharashtra border.

Ashik Hussain and Mohammed Takeen Maril, have been stuck at the RTO check post of Ambergaon for the last 21 days. The duo have been staying in their car, without proper accommodation or food.

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May 15,2020

Mangaluru, May 15: In a shocking development, five residents of Udupi district, who recently came from United Arab Emirates today tested positive for covid-19.

As many as 49 passengers among over 175 repatriates who were brought from Dubai to Mangaluru International Airport on May 12 were from Udupi district.

Hence they were quarantined in Udupi district and their throat swabs were sent for testing on the same day. Today, five of them obtained positive report. They were today shifted to TMA Pai covid-hospital from their hotel rooms.

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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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