Areca growers burn loan recovery notices, demand waiver

March 19, 2011

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Uppinangady, March 19: Karnataka State Raitha Sangha and Hasiru Sene on Saturday demanded the waiver of loans secured by areca formers since they have been adversely affected by decline in prices, fall in crop volume due to yellow disease over the last 10 years.

A resolution to this effect was passed at the meeting held at Uppinangady, which urged the government to respond to the plight of areca growers in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and north Madikeri.

Speaking on the occasion Kodihalli Chandrashekar, the state unit president of the Raitha Sangha, regretted that there was no mechanism to evolve a scientific price for the produce and blasted the erroneous credit policy of the government.

He also set fire to the loan recovery notices issued to the farmers by banks and co-operative societies. He said, the government is the real defaulter and the banks and co-operative societies must take up the issue only with the government and not the hapless farmers.

He also urged the farmers not to take the extreme step of ending life due to loan distress and requested them to unitedly fight for their rights.

Kanagal Murthy from Hassan, Kisan Sene Kasargod unit president Gundyadka Venkataramana Bhat, Prakash Ammannaya, DK district president Rohithaksha Rai spoke on the occasion.

DK district RAitha Sangha working president Kiran Punacha delivered welcome speech. Sridhar Shetty proposed a vote of thanks.

Immediately after the programme, Puttur taluk Tahsildar Dase Gowda arrived at the venue. A copy of the resolution passed at the meeting was handed over to him.

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April 10,2020

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Police said on Friday that the Patients are allowed into the district after filling an online form and getting it authorised from the medical officer from Kasargod district hospital.

On April 9, a patient had arrvived at the district hospital complaining of head ache. After preliminary check up by the physician he left in an ambulance that had arrived from Kasargod earlier carrying another patient without informing the physician.

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May 21,2020

Udupi, May 21: In a shocking development, as many as 27 fresh coronavirus positive cases were reported in the coastal district of Udupi today. 

Another shocker is, 16 among 27 covid-19 patients are children. The rest are six men and five women. 

Interestingly, all of them have inter-state travel history. 23 had come from Maharashtra and 3 from Telangana. Another one had come from Kerala to Manipal. More details are awaited.

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May 5,2020

Bengaluru, May 5: A 62-year-old woman from Vijayapura succumbed to coronavirus infection on Tuesday, taking the COVID-19 death toll in Karnataka to 28, a health official said.

The state has registered eight more COVID-19 cases in the past 19 hours, increasing the count of such cases to 659, the official added.

"Positive case 640, 62-year-old female resident of Vijayapura died on Tuesday due to cardiac arrest," the health official said.

Admitted to a designated hospital''s ICU on Sunday, the woman was also suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Bronchial Asthma (BA) and complained of breathlessness.

Among the eight fresh cases that emerged in the state, four were contacts of earlier cases, two with Influenza Like Illness (ILI) and one with travel history to Uttarakhand.

The health department is also tracing the contact history of a 30-year-old woman from Bengaluru Urban.

Incidentally, no new cases emerged from Davangere as 22 cases rocked the district on Monday.

Among the new cases, Bengaluru Urban contributed 3, followed by Bagalkote, 2, Ballari, Dakshina Kannada and Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada, 1 each.

Of the new cases, six are men and two women.

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