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MCC bags IconSWM 2011 excellence award

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December 14, 2011

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Mangalore, December 14: The Mangalore City Corporation has shared the Joint First Position of IconSWM 2011 excellence award with Mysore City Corporation.

The award was conferred during the second international conference on Solid Waste Management and Exhibition on Muncipal Services, Urban Development, Public Works and Clean Technology (Icon SWM 2011) held at Jadavpur University with the support of Govt of India and Govt of West Bengal recently.

Revealing this to media persons at his office on Wednesday, MCC Mayor Praveen Anchan said that the credit goes to the hard work of his team. “We will promise to keep the standards as good as it is now”, he said.

He said Mangalore City Corporation was selected by the assessors in Tier-2 selection process for its proactive actions on solid waste management and initiative in making the roads concrete.

The MCC has been able to install Bio Gas plant, compost plants and sanitary land fill sites with respect to solid waste management. In IconSWM 2009 Mangalore had bagged second position. Many Municipalities have been assessed. A team from Jadavpur University had visited Mangalore for three days and in the slab of 3,00,000 population three cities had got selected. About Rs 1 lakh crore has been spent on this initiative. The Bio-Methanation project has also been implemented by the City Corporation. MCC has been able to sell the compost as a fertiliser and its quality has been appreciated. There is 100% door to door collection of garbage and segregated waste is fed to the Bio- Methanation plant. The 'Nisargaruna' plant is operational since August 2011, he said.

He said that the infrastructure for composting plant and sanitary landfill has been developed along with KUDCEMP at a cost of Rs 6.48 crores and 9.39 crores with ADB loans. The Winrow composting and Vermi Composting plant is operational since 2008 and Landfill site since 2010.

In the future there will be stress on source segregation, hydraulically operated vehicles will be used for Primary and secondary transportation. GPS systems will be installed in secondary transportation vehicles and sweeping of streets will be mechanized, he added.





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March 27,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 27: In the wake of mounting number of coronavirus positive cases in Dakshina Kannada and surrounding areas, the government has decided to fully shut down the coastal district on Saturday, March 28.

Announcing this today, district in charge minister Kota Srinivas Poojary urged the people not to step out their homes at any cost for any reason as nothing would be available outside except the deadly coronavirus.

All grocery stores, food outlets and markets also are likely to remain closed. For last few days grocery shops remained open till noon. 

Dakshina Kannada today reported two fresh cases of Covid-19. So far the district witnessed seven positive cases and none of them are fully cured. Shockingly neighboring district of Kasargod today reported 34 new coronavirus positive cases on a single day.

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August 4,2020

Mangaluru, Aug 4: The Kasaragod district administration has decided to restore the e-pass system for daily commuters between Kasaragod and Mangaluru amid covid-19 crisis. 

As covid-19 cases began to increase in Dakshina Kannada, the Kasargod district administration had unilaterally newly introduced of daily pass system on July 6 for entry and exit from Talapady border. This had inconvenienced hundreds of employees, who visited Mangaluru daily to eke a living. 

The decision to resume the pass system was taken in a video conference of Kerala Revenue Minister Chandrasekharan with officials and elected representatives on August 3.

The minister said the Kasaragod district administration will resume issuing of passes for daily commuters between Kasaragod and Mangaluru. But they should undergo rapid antigen test for every week to renew their passes.

"Similarly, one-time interstate passes will be issued for those who want to take part in marriages, funeral and other functions in both states. Even they should undergo antigen test after returning from the functions,” the minister added.

As per the previous order, daily commuters, especially employees, had to stay in Mangaluru for 28 days before returning to Kasargod. Later, Kerala government relaxed rules on July 23 allowing only bank employees from Kasaragod to travel daily in their private vehicles to their workplace in Dakshina Kannada.

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May 24,2020

Bengaluru, May 24: Karnataka Tourism Minister CT Ravi said that coronavirus lockdown has severely marred the tourism industry in the state and the government will revive it in a phased manner.

"It would be beneficial if hotels are opened keeping in mind few restrictions. At present, the tourism industry has fallen flat making it very difficult to promote tourism in the state," Ravi said.

"Our department has planned to promote tourism in a phased manner. In the first phase, we would focus on native tourism; then in the second phase, we will promote inter-district travel; in the third phase, we will put weight behind inter-state tourism and in the fourth phase, we would be promoting international travel and tourism," he added.

Karnataka's COVID-19 count surges to 1,958 with 216 new cases of the virus reported in the last 24 hours, said the Health Department in a bulletin on Saturday.

Out of the total number of cases, 1,307 patients are active cases and 608 patients have been discharged. The total number of fatalities due to COVID-19 in the state has risen to 42.

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