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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March 4,2020

Vijayapura, Mar 4: Despite strict measures to prevent any kind of embarrassing incidents during II PU board exams, the first three pages of Physics question paper was doing rounds on social media within an hour of commencement.

According to sources, “after removing the question papers from the sealed paper envelope, one of the supervisors is suspected to have taken photographs of it and circulated to the various social networking sites and Whatsapp. In an hour it spread across the district and the incident is said to be happened at Shanteshwar Pre-University College at Indi town.”

As many as 27,359 students were enrolled for the PU Board exams and among them 7,984 students have registered for Science. On the first-day, Physics for Science and History for Arts examinations were held in 41 centres of the district.

Confirming the question papers are being circulated over social networking applications, Deputy Commissioner YS Patil told TNIE that: “According to the Karnataka Education Act 24 (a) it cannot be considered as the question paper leak.”

“Even we have contacted the head office of the PU Board they also collecting the primary details denied to claim it as question paper leak. However, a committee will investigate and will also visit the college in the earliest. If any of the supervisors found guilty an action will be initiated against them. It is not a question paper leak instead it might be lapse of duty from the supervisors and investigation will be made,” stated DC Patil.

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January 26,2020

New Delhi, Jan 26: On the occasion of the 71st Republic Day, Karnataka state's tableau depicted the philosophy of Basaveshwara and the concept of Anubhava Mantapa (Centre for Experience), which was the socio-religious centre that existed in the present-day Basava Kalyana of Bidar district in Karnataka.

It is regarded as the first religious parliament in the history of mankind.

This 12th-century centre has a special significance in the history of humanity, as it represents composite culture, philosophy, spirituality, equality among other universal human values.

These values were propagated by the saint and social reformer- Basaveshwara and other sharanas- followers of Basava philosophy of the socio-religious movement.

It is significant that representatives of Anubhava Mantapa were nominated based on their spiritual attainment, regardless of caste, class and sect they belonged and thus discarded the differentiation of human beings as higher or lower, on the basis of birth, occupation and gender.

The front part of the tableau has the replica of Basaveshwara preaching his most cherished value - "Work is Worship".

For Republic Day Parade 2020, a total of 56 tableaux proposals (32 from states/UTs and 24 from Ministries/Departments) were received. Out of these, 22 were shortlisted for participation in the Republic Day Parade 2020.

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March 9,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 9: Karnataka government has ordered holidays for children in lower and upper kindergarten classes in Bengaluru, in the wake of coronavirus outbreak and with positive cases being reported from states in its neighbourhood.

"Further to the advice received from the Health Commissioner, holidays have been declared for Lower and Upper Kindergarten classes in Bengaluru North, South and Rural districts due to coronavirus, " Karnataka Minister for Primary and Secondary Education S Suresh Kumar said on Sunday.

According to official estimates, no positive cases of coronavirus have been reported from Karnataka till now.

The state has strengthened all surveillance and containment measures against the possible spread of disease.

Till Sunday, 890 persons have been identified for observation including persons who have travelled to COVID-19 affected countries and contacts of COVID-19 positive cases.

Six persons have been admitted to selected isolation hospitals.

According to official estimates, till date 87,066 passengers have been screened at airports in Karnataka.

The number of COVID-19 cases in India climbed to 39 on Sunday with five people in Kerala testing positive for coronavirus. The deadly virus has caused the deaths of over 3300 people globally.

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