Udupi City Municipal Council presents surplus budget

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March 28, 2011

Udupi, March 28: President of Udupi City Municipal Council Kiran Kumar on Monday presented a Rs 183.76 lakh surplus budget for Udupi city for the year 2011-12.

The budget showed an initial balance of Rs 1036.01 lakh, expected an income of Rs 7016.85 lakh and proposed an expenditure of Rs 7869.10 lakh for the coming financial year.

In the budget proposal Kiran Kumar announced to acquire land in the Parkala town, a bottleneck on the Malpe-Monakalmooru state highway, for widening the road. Acquisition has already been proposed and an amount of Rs 3 crore from the CM's Small and Medium Towns' Development Progamme had been earmarked.

He said that the land acquisition process for widening the road at Diana Circle was at the verge of completion and the Circle would be developed soon after that. Likewise, Rs 13 crores had been deposited with the land acquisition officer, to acquire land for widening the stretch between Tangadagadi-Kalsanka. Once the land acquisition was complete, a 60 feet road would be developed spending Rs 6 crores from the state government's special grant.

An Open Air Theater will be constructed at the erstwhile Municipal dumping yard, at Beedinagudde. For the purpose, a Rs 6 crore project had been prepared. The works of the first stage will be taken up by Rs 2.50 crore from the CM's Small and Medium Towns' Development Progamme and Rs 1 crore from the state government's special grant.

Other proposals of the budget included modernization of Town Hall at Ajjarkad, at a cost of Rs 4 crores (2 crores each from the CM's SMTDP and special grant), rejuvenating the municipal crematorium at Malpe, dividing Udupi city in to 10 zones for the effective collection of solid waste from the door steps, upgrading technology to manage solid waste at the Muncipal Solid Waste Recycling Plant, at Karvalu, in a better way, construction of over head tanks at Manipal to supply water to some of the areas with enough force. Rs 6 crore has been reserved for the construction Malpe-Padukar bridge, Rs 1 crore has also been earmarked for the smooth functioning of traffic system in Udupi.

Speaking at the Budget session of the CMC Udupi MLA Raghupathi Bhat said that the water management system has been appreciated by the state government and has also been nominated for the national award. CMC Vice President Bharathi Chandrashekhar, Commissioner Gokuldas Nayak and others were present.

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January 16,2020

Davanagere, Jan 16: Congress leader D K Shivakumar on Thursday turned down all the recent media reports of him aspiring for the coveted Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committe (KPCC) president post.

Terming all the news, doing rounds, as baseless, Shivakumar said that he never made any attempt to become KPCC president. "All I want to do is work for my people and party", he asserted.

Referring to Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa's visit to Harihar's 'Our Lady of Health Minor Basilica' programme, Shivakumar said."I'm not concerned about what others are doing, everyone is free to take part in the programmes."

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August 5,2020

Mangaluru, Aug 5: Normal life was thrown out of gear as heavy rain and gusty winds lashed large parts of coastal and malnad districts of Karnataka in last 48 hours. Widespread power outages due to tree fall and minor landslides were reported in last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Indian Meteorological Department has sounded a red alert for Uttara Kannada, Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts 8:30am of August 5.

In Mangaluru city there were several tree falls disrupting power supply in key areas of the city. Four electricity poles were damaged after a tree fell on Boloor Jarandaya road due to rain and heavy winds. In Neermarga too, there were a couple of tree falls in the morning cutting off power supply, which was not restored till this report was sent.

Mescom bore the brunt of the rains in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada District and at the last count as many as 148 electric poles, 23 transformers and 65 kilometer conductor wires were damaged due to poles being damaged in tree fall and landslides.

Traffic was affected on Charmadi Ghat on the Mangaluru-Chikkamagaluru route due to a tree fall on the second hair pin bend. 

On Monday, landslides near Kottigehara, Chikkamagaluru District, left traffic badly affected. Though normalcy has been restored on the route after blocking the road for restoration till Tuesday morning, locals fear more landslides due to continuous downpour.

Kodagu district too received heavy rainfall in past 24 hours which resulted in water logging in low-lying areas.

In the Coast, Uttara Kannada received the highest amount of rainfall at 91mm, followed by Udupi at 75 and DK at 73mm. The highest Rainfall of 241 mm was recorded at Castlerock, Supa Taluk in Uttara Kannada District.

KSNMDC bulletin stated that widespread moderate to heavy rains associated with strong surface winds at times and isolated very heavy to extreme heavy rains was likely over Udupi, Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada districts It also stated that wind speeds ranging between 50kmph to 60 kmph was forecast along the coast of Karnataka from Mangaluru to Karwar, warning fishermen not to venture into the sea.

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March 19,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 19: To better enforce social distancing and prevent further spread of Covid-19, the Karnataka health and family welfare department on Wednesday said it will "stamp the back of the palm" of international passengers advised to be on home quarantine, along with the date they are allowed to get out of home. The stamping process began at 12am Thursday.

Pankaj Kumar Pandey, commissioner, health and family welfare, said: "It is noted that a few passengers under home quarantine are not following the instructions. Therefore, it has been decided to stamp the back of the palm of their left hand with a specially designed stamp which will indicate the last day of quarantine."

He said the special stamp will use an indelible ink and "airports in Karnataka have been instructed to follow this without fail". On average, about 3,000 people are arriving in Bengaluru on international flights every day.

The department said social distancing is the only known method of combating the spread of Covid-19 and added, "International passengers are segregated as symptomatic and asymptomatic."

High-risk flyers kept at mass quarantine unit

The symptomatic passengers (Group-A) are taken to designated hospitals; asymptomatic ones, depending on the port of origin, are taken to the quarantine centre or permitted to go on home quarantine.

At the mass quarantine centre, the asymptomatic passengers are divided into moderate-risk (Group-B) and high-risk (Group-C) categories.

“The high-risk passengers are kept at a mass quarantine centre for medical observation. The moderate-risk passengers are being sent for home quarantine where they need to spend 14 days,” the statement added.

Pandey said: “International passengers changing flights within the country cannot be stopped. Ideally, they should be stamped at the first port of entry when they arrive from a foreign country which is not happening.” He said this issue will be brought to the notice of the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation.

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