Areca soap launched in city

[email protected] (CD Network)
June 29, 2011

Mangalore, June 29: Agriculture is a vital instrument for development of the country. However farmers have been neglected post-independence due to which farmer suicide is at peak. If central government fails to provide support price for the areca fruit than all state politicians will fight against government under one roof without any discrimination of political parties, said Nalin Kumar Kateel, MP.

He was speaking during the launching ceremony of Pooga Singar Deodorant Beauty Soap, made of areca fruit at Campco building here on Wednesday.

Mr. Nalin said that by inventing the soap through areca, people will come to understand the importance of such a fruit which results in high demand leading to better price.

He also blamed the government for granting fertile agricultural lands to Special Economic Zone, which is not in favour of betterment of the city.

Badanaje Shankar Bhat, inventor of the soap said that earlier areca was just limited to chewing purpose. Now due to lot of research work, a number of products can be produced with it like lipstick, tea powder, soft drinks, ink etc. and with alternate use, areca will get good market.


Areca will have a good market in the future, he added.

Shailaja K T Bhat, President, Zilla Panchayat, Mangalore, said that this type of invention will help attract youth towards agriculture. She also urged the Areca Research and Development team to continue their research on areca fruit.

Dr. D C Chowta, Former Botany Professor, Mangalore University, Konkodi Padmanabha Bhat, President, Campco Company and Shrinivas Acharya were present on the dias.

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Feb 3: The Karnataka government is probably the only state to have so many nodal agencies to deal with investment proposals. There is the KIADB, Karnataka Udyoga Mitra, State High Level Clearance Committee (SHLCC), State Level Single Window Clearance Committee (SLSWCC) and District Level Single Window Clearance Committee.

While the government claims these have been created to speed up the process of setting up industries, they’re only delaying it. “A four-to-five year delay in acquiring land has become the norm,’’ say industry sources.

“These entities are only adding layers of obstacles to investors and is not really helping industries,” said a senior IAS officer.

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The single-window agencies involving representatives of departments like industries, revenue, pollution control board and forest are supposed to collectively give necessary clearances required for industries. “But, of late, they have become only project approvers without other responsibilities, leaving investors in the lurch,” said Ladava.

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The raid was carried out on Saturday night and the police have arrested two people, while the owner of the spa is absconding.

The arrested suspects have been identified as Peter Sunawar and Rajkumar Radhakrishna Mishra. Further investigation is underway in the case.

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