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Improvement of basic infrastructure can turn Kasargod into a tourism hotspot'

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June 9, 2012
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Kasargod, June 9: The Kasargod district, with its picturesque hills and vast stretch of costal belt, could be turned into a tourism hotspot, opined Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President Ramesh Chennithala.

Inaugurating a development seminar hosted by the District Congress Committee at the municipal conference hall here on Friday, he said Northern Kerala has immense potential to emerge as an investment friendly region, if basic infrastructure is improved.

However, the district remained backward because of the authorities' failure in implementing the sanctioned schemes, he lamented. “The attitude needs to be changed. A sizeable number of people migrate to other States or abroad to get gainful employment,” he said.

Referring to the Central University of Kerala (CUK) coming up at Periye in the district, he said Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal had agreed to lay the foundation stone of the institution on July 21.

He said he would recommend setting up of a mobile Triveni outlet in Kasaragod Assembly segment so that essential goods would be available at affordable prices. Similar arrangements would be extended to other four Assembly segments in the district.

The KPCC president said a draft report compiled from the day-long seminar would be handed over to the P. Prabhakaran Commission, appointed by the government to study the development requirements of the district.

DCC president K. Velunthambu presided over the function which was attended by N.A. Nellikunnu and P.B. Abdul Razak, MLAs from Kasaragod and Manjeshwaram.

KPCC executive members P. Gangadharan Nair, M.C. Jose, C. K. Sreedharan, and M. Narayanan Kutty also addressed the function.

“Bid to scuttle probe”


Later, Speaking to media persons on the sidelines of the programme, Mr Chennithala accused the Communist Party of India-Marxist of diverting the ongoing police inquiry into the murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader T.P. Chandrasekharan.

He asked the party whether it was prepared to denounce its politics of violence in the wake of the revelations that pointed an accusing finger at the role of the CPI(M) in the murder case.

“The CPI(M) appears to be nervous about the outcome of the ongoing probe into the RMP leader's murder,” he said, alleging that the party was trying to scuttle the probe by threatening police officials and media persons.

To a query on the move to shift crucial institutions coming under the Central University of Kerala (CUK) to elsewhere in the State, he said such reports were baseless.

He said the medical college proposed under the CUK would be set up in Kasaragod, where hundreds were suffering from mysterious diseases attributed to endosulfan pesticide sprayed on the Plantation Corporation of Kerala's cashew estates.

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May 13,2020

Bengaluru, May 13: Former chief minister and senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Wednesday called the measures announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as 'disastrous' and said it is 'non-existent' in terms of benefits to poor migrants, labourers, contract employees and farmers.

"The first set of measures announced by @FinMinIndia @nsitharaman, after 8 PM speech by @narendramodi, is disastrous & non-existent in terms of benefits to poor migrants, labourers, contract employees, farmers, etc," Siddaramaiah said in a tweet.

The Congress leader said most of the intended benefits may not reach the end recipient.

This comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a Rs 20 lakh crore special economic package to revive the COVID-19 hit economy.

"The contribution by the government for the schemes announced are mostly notional and less of actuals and the devil lies in the detail," the Congress leader said in another tweet.

After Sitharaman announced support measures for MSMEs, Siddaramaiah said, "The credit infusion to MSMEs may help them clear dues to vendors but it is doubtful if they shall utilise the credit available to pay their labourers & to prevent job cuts. @FinMinIndia should have taken measures to pay part of the salaries to the employees in MSMEs."

Further questioning the Centre on 'ignoring the spending for boosting consumption', Siddaramaiah said, "The government is interested in capital infusion in the form of credits but totally ignorant of the actual spending that needs to be done to boost consumption. How can credit be considered as government spending?"

Siddaramaiah said the next set of measures should benefit the marginalised sections.

"Will be looking forward to next set of measures & I hope it will be something to benefit the marginalised sections. Direct benefits to the poorest sections will help them survive this pandemic. COVID-19 fight should not be another perception battle but a real one," he added in another tweet.

Sitharaman earlier announced Rs 3 lakh crore collateral-free automatic loans for businesses, including MSMEs.

Besides this, she also stated that to provide stressed MSMEs with equity support, the government will facilitate the provision of Rs 20,000 crore as subordinate debt.

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June 27,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 27: Karnataka witnessed the biggest single-day spike in Covid cases on Saturday as 918 cases were recorded and 11 more deaths were linked to the pandemic. 

In Bengaluru alone, 596 more people tested positive for the infection in the last 24 hours as three more fatalities were also confirmed by the Department of Health and Family Welfare Services.

Following is the district wise tally:

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July 31,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 31: The Karnataka government on Wednesday put on hold a controversial proposal to drop certain chapters, including on Islam, Christianity, Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali, from social science textbooks to reduce the 2020-21 syllabi for students in classes 1-10.

Citing the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption caused to the academic calendar of the year, the government had earlier dropped the chapter on Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali from the Class 7 social science textbook, saying chapters on Tipu Sultan have been retained in the Class 6 and 10 textbooks.

The move did not go down well with the opposition, which saw certain ulterior motives behind the decision.

Apparently under sharp criticism, the Department of Public Instruction issued a new notification on Wednesday "on the directions of the Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar".

There is a delay in opening the schools during the academic year 2020-21 due to COVID-19 pandemic, said the latest order.

In this context, the order said, chapters were dropped to fit in 120 days of the academic year for classes 1 to 10 and the same was published in the department's website.

"However, on the directions of the Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, the decision to drop certain chapters has been put on hold. A review will be done following which the deleted chapters will be uploaded in the website," the order read.

Earlier in the day, Mr Kumar had issued a statement, saying that the decision to truncate the syllabus has not been finalised yet. He also made it clear that his department would not remove chapters unnecessarily.

Former chief minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah had attacked the government on the issue.

"The government, which has failed to control the spread of coronavirus, is using it as an opportunity to push its clandestine agenda of saffronising the textbooks," Siddaramaiah tweeted.

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