Palemar's reinstatement depends on high command: CM

April 10, 2012

Sullia, April 10: Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda has said that the BJP high command would take a final decision over the inclusion of Mangalore North MLA Krishna J Palemar to the State cabinet.

He was speaking to media persons after participating in a programme at Sullia on Monday. “The State BJP is abides by high command's decision. The reinstatement of Palemar is also depends on high command's decision”, he said.

Mr Gowda, who is due to visit Singapore and Japan to promote Global Investors' Meet (GIM) said that he would think of cabinet expansion only after returning from the tour.

He said that GIM is his priority right now because it has the potential to usher massive economic growth in the region. Hence, he will focus on campaigning for the GIM during his five-day foreign visit to Japan and Singapore.

With regard to the drought situation in the state, he said that Government has formed three teams comprising of fourteen ministers to visit the drought-hit areas and accordingly the team has visited Chamarajanagar, Bijapur and Gulbarga. The CM said that he has visited many villages in Mysore, Chitradurga and Chikaballapur. He said that relief work in the drought hit areas will be undertaken at the earliest.

Mr Gowda said the Government has written to the High Court Chief Justice and opposition leaders to clarify what is the meaning of consultation process. “Once we receive the reply, necessary action will be taken to appoint a new Lokayukta”, he said.

Meanwhile, the CM announced Rs 4.5 crore to develop a road to Thodikana Shri Mallikarjuna temple, which is about 12 kms away from Sullia.

With regard to the Yellow Leaf Disease that has been threatening the areca growers in the Malnad districts and also Dakshina Kannada district, the CM said that the state government has already prepared a project report and a delegation of ministers and opposition members will meet the Union Secretaries of the Horticulture and Agriculture Departments in the third week of April. He said that a replantation package will be launched to find solution to the problem.

The CM said that the state government has reduced the cess on petrol by 1.25 per cent, which again is for the first time as no government in the state had so far taken such a move.

“We wanted to reduce the cess further. However, due to drought in the state, we could not afford to reduce the cess further,” he added.

He said he is satisfied with his transparent administration in the state. About 95 per cent of the proposals announced in the last budget have been implemented in the state.

Adding that there has been slow progress in work related to drinking water in few districts, he said that the Deputy Commissioners concerned will be held responsible if people suffer from shortage of water supply.

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Mangaluru/Udupi, Jun 7: Coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi have recorded 17 and 13 new coronavirus positive cases between 5 p.m. on June 6 and 5 p.m. on June 7. 

16 among 17 new covid patients in Dakshina Kannada are returnees from Maharashtra, while one returned from Goa recently.

Maharashtra returnees comprise 14 males, including three teenagers t, and two females aged 32 and 41. The Goa returnee is a 32-year-old male.

All of them have all been admitted to the designated COVID hospital in the district.

With this, the total tally of coronavirus cases in Dakshina Kannada has risen to 203, out of which 47 are currently active. As many as 150 patients have recovered and been discharged, and seven have died.

Among the 13 in Udupi, 12 are Maharashtra returnees, while process of contact tracing of one patient, a 30-year-old woman, is going on.

The patients comprise eight males, including a 7-year-old boy, and five females. They have all been admitted to the designated hospital.

This takes the total number of coronavirus cases in Udupi district to 902, out of which 798 are currently active, 103 discharged, and one patient has died.

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