MCC meeting: Decision on 24-houre water supply put off

July 30, 2011

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Mangalore July30: The council of Mangalore City Corporation at its meeting on Friday chose to defer a decision on the proposed round-the-clock water supply in the city.

The council deferred discussion on the issue without any debate over the scheme, which is to be implemented under public-private partnership.

Whip in the council Sudhir Shetty Kanur said the council had been postponing the agenda as it required deliberation before choosing one of the three bids mentioned on the agenda.

But sources in the Bharathiya Janatha Party (BJP) told The Hindu that BJP was not keen on implementing the proposal in the next two years because of its political fallout. With only two years left for term of the present BJP-led Council, the party was against facing the elections after increasing the water tariff, which is inevitable if the scheme were to be implemented. The BJP is apprehensive that this might prove costly for the party in the election.

Sources said that if it approved the proposal now, it would the take a year for the proposal to become a rality. Then only a few months would be left for the elections.

Hence, the party was cautious in implementing the scheme in a hurry.

A 27-member team of the corporation had visited Hubli last month to study the 24 x 7 water supply scheme implemented in select wards on a trial basis.

At its meeting on Friday, the council passed a proposal authorizing Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC) to conduct a study and implement a comprehensive project on reducing energy consumption by streetlights. The study would cover changing streetlight to save energy, and proper maintenance and monitoring the maintenance through information technology tools. The KUIDFC would be the nodal agency for implementing the project under the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environment Management Project (KUDCEMP).

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The council did not take any decision on constituting ward committees in the city.

The agenda to this effect had proposed making 20 zones by distributing 60 wards under it for constituting the committees. The council postponed its decision to this effect without any debate.

The council ratified the approval given in last month's council meeting of reserving Rs. 3 crore for constructing a railway overpass at Mahakalipadpu railway level-crossing It ratified the decision of depositing the fund with the Southern Railway

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RSS hardliner arrested for hurling bombs at RSS office to create unrest

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January 23,2020

Kannur, Jan 23: A member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been arrested for attempting to create unrest in Kerala by hurling crude bombs at RSS office and police picket. The miscreants had reportedly planned to pass the blame on others.

The bomb attack took place of January 16 in Kerala’s Kannur. The accused Prabesh, an RSS hardliner, was arrested from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

According to the Kerala police Prabesh hurled steel bombs towards the police picket in front of Kathirur Manoj Smrithi Kendram, an RSS office.

"He threw bombs during the wee hours of January 16 morning. Following the arrest he has confessed that his aim was RSS office. Kannur, being politically sensitive region, any attack on political party offices will be regarded as an act by the opponent," Kathirur SI Nijeesh said.

"We had a police picket in the region for a few months now. We are assuming he wanted to create unrest in the area by removing the police from the spot. We could contain the situation because of the CCTV visuals. He was identified immediately after the incident. Following the attack he went to Coimbatore and was hiding there. Our team nabbed him from Coimbatore," he said.

The police have also said that the accused Prabesh had many criminal cases pending against him including those under Explosive Substances Act, 1883. He was nabbed by a team lead by Kathirur SI Nijeesh, CPO Rohith and Vijeesh.

The RSS office in the region is named after Kathirur Manoj a senior karyakarta (worker) who was allegedly killed by the CPI(M) activists in 2014. Kathirur Manoj was the prime accused in the attempt to murder of senior CPI(M) leader P Jayarajan in 1999.

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So Start From Kerala And Clean Our India As Swacha Bharath For Ever.

Jai Hind!

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Gangster Ravi Poojary sent to police custody till March 7

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February 24,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 24: Wanted gangster Ravi Poojary, who was arrested in South Africa and brought to India, was on Monday sent to police custody till March 7 by a Bengaluru court.

First Additional City Magistrate V Jagdish, while sending Pujari to police custody, said that there should be no interference in the investigations.

The court also asked the police to record video and audio of the interrogation process.

Poojary, who was wanted in over 200 cases of serious crime including murder and extortion, was brought to India by a team of senior officials and arrived at the Kempegowda International Airport here.

Pujari was extradited from Senegal on February 22 pursuant to an extradition request made by India in early 2019.

"He is physically fit. Questioning will begin from tomorrow. He is supporting our investigation and answering questions," Additional Director-General of Police Amar Kumar Pandey told reporters here earlier today.

Poojary, who parted ways with underworld don Chhota Rajan had jumped bail after he was arrested in Senegal in 2019 and had escaped to South Africa, where he was involved in drug trafficking and extortion.

According to sources in the Indian intelligence, Ravi Pujari was hiding with a false identity of Anthony Fernandes, a Burkina Faso passport holder, in a remote village in South Africa.

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Kerala eases border restrictions for healthcare access to people from neighbouring states

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April 7,2020

Wayanad, April 7: The Kerala government has allowed people from border villages of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to use medical facilities at Wayanad.

"We have opened our borders to people from neighbouring states who require medical facilities in Kerala. Twenty-nine people from Bairakuppa in Karnataka have used medical facilities in Wayanad and 44 from Tamil Nadu," Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Monday.

Bairakuppa, a small village in Karnataka, is separated by the river Kabini from Wayanad district and the residents there depend on the healthcare facilities available in Wayanad.

Speaking to news agency, Adeela Abdulla, District Collector of Wayanad, said that instructions have been issued to allow people from neighbouring states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, who need medical facilities, to cross the border.

"Right from the start of the lockdown, we have not restricted individuals from Bairakuppa region in Mysore district to use the medical facilities in Wayanad as people in that region depend on medical facilities in Wayanad," she said.

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