MCC to hand over rural water supply maintenance to ZP

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October 27, 2011

Mangalore, October 27: The Council of the Mangalore City Corporation has decided to hand over the maintenance of water supply to Adyar, Padu, Thumbe Gram pancahayts to Zilla Panchayat at the earliest.

The supply of water to these villages without any income is incurring additional burden of Rs 84 lakh to the City Corporation.

The agenda said that with the implementation of KUIDFC water supplying pipelines, the residents of Pudu, Kallige, Thumbe and Farangipete are getting water from Thumbe free of cost. However, it has been maintained by the Mangalore City Corporation. About 2.25 MGD water is supplied to these villages since 2007. With the maintenance of water supply system, the MCC is spending Rs 7 lakh monthly towards electricity bill, payment of wages to the employees and pumpset maintenance.

MCC Commissioner Dr Harish said that potholes on all the motorable roads in 60 wards will be filled within a week. The estimate for filling the potholes has been put at Rs 2.5 crore. When corporator Shashidhar Hegde and Naveen D'Souza said that there is a need to convene a meeting of road contractors to discuss their problems with regard to asphaltation of roads, Mayor Praveen said that the meeting will be convened within three days.

Shankar Bhat said that one organisation was distributing photostat copy of application form for Ashraya scheme, for Rs 500 recently. Whether any organisation has the right to distribute application forms for money?

The Commissioner said that the MCC has identified land for the landless. However, few persons had approached the court stating that the identified land is their kumki land. Under Vasathi yojana, the MCC is planning to construct flats. If any organisations come forward to bear the expenses on social responsibility, the MCC can construct few houses to the poor.

Corporator James D'Souza raised the issue of streetlights in the MCC limits and said that majority of the streetlights do not burn inspite of complaints. The Commissioner said that all contractors meeting was convened recently.

The MCC has decided to pay monthly maintenance amount to the contractors only after the Corporator gives verification certificate. The new tender will be invited for maintaining streetlights at the earliest as the tender document is ready for the same, he added.

The State has directed all the urban local bodies (MCC, CMC, TMCs) to revise the water tariff in its letter dated September 28, 2011. However, the MCC has resolved not to hike the tariff as the government failed to take the Council to consideration while taking a decision.

“At the same time, we have enough water source near the City, unlike other Corporation, where the cost incurred for supplying water is more,” said Chief Whip Sudheer Shetty.

The Council also made automatic reading metre mandatory for commercial flats, non domestic and high rise buildings, commercial (hotels) in the City Corporation limits.

Accordingly, the MCC will invite tender for the purchase of AMR and initiate measure to install the water connections. The money for the same will be collected from the users through water bill. The users will be given 10 installments to pay the money for the metres.

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February 17,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 17: Karnataka State Government have plans to establish three more ultra Mega Renewable Energy power parks, each of 2500 MW capacity, Karnataka Governor, Vajubhai Wala informed the joint legislative meeting, here on Monday.

Addressing a Joint Legislative meeting here, he said that the proposed Ultra Mega Renewable Energy parks would come up at Koppala, Bidar and Gadaga in the state.

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July 8,2020

Udupi, Jul 8: A 15-year-old boy belonging to Saligrama in Udupi district, who was under home quarantine with his mother, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself yesterday.

His throat swabs were sent for testing. The report received today and it showed that he did not have coronavirus.
 
The boy, a class ten student studying in Kota, was quarantined along with his mother at home after a person in a family, where she was working as a maid tested positive for Covid-19.

The boy is suspected to have taken the extreme step out of depression as he was not allowed to go out. The last rites were held today.

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May 12,2020

Bengaluru, May 12: Last week, a 28-year-old, eight-months pregnant woman, was found murdered at her house, in Diburahalli. The woman was hacked to death with a machete during the day and was discovered only after her family members returned home, later in the day. After the alleged murder, the accused tried to destroy the evidence, by cleaning the crime scene, and wiping the bloodstains off the walls and floors.

The victim was a homemaker and her husband is employed in the railway department. The police suspected that the murder was a result of someone known to the woman and family, and were soon proved right. The woman was murdered by her own brother-in-law, frustrated with her for allegedly not taking care of his mother and other family members properly.

The victim has been identified as Jyothi, and the accused is her husband’s brother Hareesh Babu, 38. “Jyothi and the accused are alleged to have had differences for the past few years. Their fights kept escalating over the years. She had also informed her family and her husband about the regular fights with the brother-in-law. The accused had been advised by the family, to back off from Jyothi. Owing to his violent streak, Babu’s wife had deserted him and their son. Since his wife’s departure, he had started troubling his brother’s wife and was regularly picked a fight with her.

He complained that Jyothi neglected to take care of his mother and other family members. Investigations reveal these as false allegations, and in fact, Babu’s son was being raised by Jyothi,” said an officer on part of investigations.

Last week, when the victim was resting at home, the accused returned home at around 10.30 am and picked up a fight with her. The fight escalated and Babu ended up hacking her to death with a machete. The victim’s father Nagaraj, at the time of filing a complaint, mentioned Babu’s regular fights with Jyothi and suspected his role in the murder of his pregnant daughter.

The accused, after killing her, had gone to the farm and pretended to not knowing about the the happenings back home. Based on the complainant’s suspicion, the police picked up Babu. After a thorough interrogation, Babu reportedly confessed to the murder of his sister-in-law. The machete, which was used for Jyothi’s murder, was also recovered by the police team.

A case of murder under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered and further investigations are underway.

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abdullah
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Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Put this case in fast track and hang him immediately.  No mercy should be shown on such inhumans.

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