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MCC seeks corporate support to beautify roads and parks

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March 5, 2011

Mangalore: The Mangalore City Corporation will introduce a new concept “Own your road and park” to repair, restore and beautify the roads and parks by private firms in the city limits, said MCC Commissioner Dr KN Vijayaprakash.

He told the media on Saturday that in all 22 roads and five parks will be taken up in the project. To facilitate this concept the MCC is planning to sign a MoU with the interested banks or any firms to own the roads and parks. After owning the road, the companies or banks can advertise their company on both sides of the road for every 350 metres, he added.

However, the companies or banks should take the onus of repairing, restoring and beatifying the roads and parks. They should look after the maintenance, construction of footpath, growing plants and nurturing them, traffic management etc.

The annual maintenance of the park per acre is estimated at Rs 2.91 lakhs, the Commissioner said.

The 22 roads include Hampankatta junction to A B Shetty; Clock tower circle-Rao and Rao Circle; A B Shetty to Hamilton Circle and Hamilton Circle to Rao and Rao Circle; Hampankatta Junction to Jyothi (via Bavutagudda); Hampankatta Junction to Jyothi (via Balmatta); Jyothi Junction to Karavali Circle (via Collector's gate road); Karavali Circle to Pumpwell Circle; P V S Junction to Ladyhill Circle; Ladyhill Circle to Urwa store; Urwa store to Kottara Chowki; Ladyhill Circle to Mannagudda; K P T Junction to Mary Hill; Mary Hill to Bondel Junction; Bondel Junction to Marakada; Hampankatta Junction to PVS; Karavali Circle to Kankanady Junction; Bunts Hostel Junction to PVS Junction;Ballalbagh Junction to Mannagudda; Kuloor Junction to Kavoor Junction; KSRTC to Kuntikana; Lalbagh to Bejai Junction and Bejai to Basaveshwara Circle.

The five parks include Mahatma Gandhi Park at Mannagudda; Children's Park near Hamilton Circle; Mallikatte Park near Mallikatte Junction; Bhararth Maidan Park near Jeppu Market and SL Mathias Park near Melina Mogeru, Attavar.

Mayor Praveen, Deputy Mayor Geetha Nayak and Opposition leader Lancelot Pinto were present.

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May 14,2020

Hubballi, May 14: South Western Railway (SWR) has so far ferried about 54,000 passengers, including migrant workers, students and stranded people to 11 states to reach their home towns by Shramik Special trains.

So far 40 Shramik Specials were run one each from Kabakaputtur in Mysuru and Hubballi and remaining 38 from Chikkabanavara/Malur from Bengaluru area. About 54,000 passengers were ferried to different parts of the country. Maximum Shramik Specials trains train services were run to Lucknow (9) and Danapur (7).

Shramik Specials were run to Bihar (Bakora, Danapur, Baruni, Darbhanga), West Bengal (Purila, Bankura, New Jalpaiguri), Jharkhand (Hatia, Barkakana), Rajasthan (Jaipur, Udaipur), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Gorakhpur), Orissa (Bhubaneswar), Madhya Pradesh (Gwalior), Uttarakhand (Haridwar), Himachal Pradesh (Una), Tripura (Agartala) and Jammu and Kashmir (Udhampur).

SWR is transporting passengers to their destination as per the demand of the State Government with proper protocol and the receiving State Government is ready to accept them.

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July 27,2020

Kasaragod, Jul 27: Seven persons belonging to two relative-families who attended a funeral recently had been tested positive for Coronavirus on Monday.

Sources said the two families had been to Thavinjal near here for the funeral of a man who died at the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital on July 19.

Later, the samples of these seven persons were sent for testing after they developed symptoms of COVID-19, the result of which came out on Monday.

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July 1,2020

Mangaluru, July 1: The district administration has imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 in entire Dakshina Kannada between 8pm and 5am in the entire month of July.

Notice in this regard was issued today by Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B Roopesh. The order will come into force with immediate and will be in place ill July 31, the DC said.

The decision was taken days after Karnataka government took steps to tighten covid restriction and imposed lockdown from 8pm to 5am. 

Under the imposed Section 144, the presence or movement of one or more persons in public places are prohibited. Besides, the gathering of any sort anywhere, including religious places subject to certain conditions in view of the COVID-19 pandemic will also be restricted. 
 

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