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Road funds diverted to other states: MP Nalin

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October 6, 2011

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Mangalore, October 6: Are states such as Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan paying the price for their alacrity in utilising and implementing Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)? Yes, feels MP Nalin Kumar Kateel. The Union ministry concerned is diverting funds allocated to such states to states such as Kerala, Jharkhand, and Madhya Pradesh that are lagging in implementation of the scheme in an effort to help them catch up, he said.


Chairing the district vigilance and monitoring committee meeting of various centrally sponsored schemes here on Tuesday, Nalin said the Union government has not sanctioned funds to Karnataka under phase IX and X of PMGSY. A delegation of MPs from the state met Union minister for panchayat raj Jairam Ramesh in Delhi recently and apprised him of the problems faced on this account and Ramesh is aware of the situation, he pointed. During 2011-12, up to end of June 2011, a total of 138 road works were sanctioned and the length of road works involved in phase I to VIII (batch 11) is 533.56 km. Out of this, 124 road works totalling 508.22 km have been completed, executive engineer, PMGSY informed the meeting. Nalin said the minister, however, has given his consent to enable gram panchayats to carry out survey work for the future roads to be taken up under PMGSY. On the issue of writing a letter to Mangalore SEZ authorities to speedily complete the PMGSY road from Thokur railway gate up to MRPL in Mangalore taluk, Nalin told the engineer that non-completion of the road is causing inconvenience to people of the area.


"If you had informed me beforehand about the status of the road, we could have summoned MSEZ authorities and directed them to take corrective steps and get the work expedited," he noted. Shivarame Gowda, deputy secretary, zilla panchayat directed executive officers of taluk panchayats to ensure completion of Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendras in all 203 gram panchayats of the district before March 2012. The official also instructed the executive officers to pay due attention to expediting individual works under MGNREG scheme and meet stipulated targets. "There should be no financial spill over during the next fiscal," he noted.

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March 31,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 31: Ten persons who were under home quarantine in Bengaluru and had escaped to their native places, were arrested on Monday.
A case has been registered against them at Gurmitkal Police Station, said BH Anil Kumar, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) Commissioner.

Seven new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Karnataka between Saturday 5 pm and Sunday 2 pm.

The total number of positive cases in the state stands at 83, out of which five have been cured and three have lost their lives, according to the Karnataka Health Department.

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March 2,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 2: The Karnataka Department of Public Instruction has directed the School heads across the State to grant leave to students and staff suffering from fever, cold, cough and other respiratory infections.

As precautionary measure following the COVID-19 (known as coronavirus) outbreak at the global level, the department issued a circular in this regard here on Monday.

If any student, teacher or staff is suffering from respiratory infections, they should be granted leave. They should be allowed to come back to school only after confirming from the doctor that they are cured, the circular added.

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May 10,2020

Mangaluru, May 10: A special train carrying 1,140 migrant workers stranded here in the lockdown has left Mangaluru railway station for Jharkhand.

Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel and Vedavyas Kamath, MLA, were present at the railway station on Saturday night when the train left.

Kamath said the workers who had registered on the state governments Seva Sindhu portal were brought to the railway station in Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation buses.

A health check-up was carried out before they boarded the train.

The district administration also provided food packets and water to the migrants at the station.

Three more trains will leave from Mangaluru for Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand soon, he said.

Meanwhile, in a statement, Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Sindhu P Rupesh said train services are being arranged for migrant workers who have registered their names on the Seva Sindhu portal.

The workers will be informed when trains are arranged to their destinations and they need not throng the railway station unnecessarily, she said.

Around 20,000 workers have so far registered themselves online, including 5,000 from Jharkhand, 3,000 from Uttar Pradesh and 4,000 from Bihar.

Hundreds of migrant workers had on Friday staged a protest at the central railway station here, demanding that they be sent back home.

The workers went back to their camps only after district authorities and police gave them assurance that trains will be arranged in three days.

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