Mangalore airport records Rs 9.5-cr operating profit

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August 21, 2012
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Mangalore, August 21: The Mangalore airport recorded an operating profit of Rs 9.5 crore for 2011-12.

Speaking on the sidelines of a function of the airport's diamond jubilee celebration committee, M.R. Vasudeva, Mangalore Airport Director, Airports Authority of India (AAI), said that the income of the airport during 2011-12 was Rs 42 crore. It incurred an expenditure of around Rs 32.5 crore during the year. The operating profit stood at Rs 9.5 crore.

The airport, which suffered a loss of Rs 2.5 crore during 2002-03, has seen significant growth in traffic and revenue in the recent years. During 2002-03, the income of the airport was Rs 4 crore and expenditure was Rs 6.5 crore, he said. Vasudeva said that civil and electrical works related to air cargo complex at Mangalore airport has been completed at a cost of Rs 45 lakh.

The AAI has written a letter to the Customs Department to make AAI the custodian of cargo at the airport. The air cargo complex is planned at the old terminal building of Mangalore airport. Recently, Union Power and Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily, had stated that the Union Civil Aviation Ministry had informed him of the early commissioning of air cargo complex.

This followed Moily's participation in the exporters' convention in Mangalore recently, which was organised by the Federation of Indian Export Organisations. In that meet, exporters had stressed the need for an air cargo complex at Mangalore airport with cold storage facilities for agro products.

On the other projects at the airport, Vasudeva said that nearly 20 per cent of the work on the construction of an air traffic control block has been completed at the airport. He hoped that the civil works on this project could be completed by January.



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June 28,2020

Udupi, Jun 28: A student appearing for the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) exams in Kaup taluk of Udupi district has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection.

Officials of the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and Udupi District Health and Family Welfare Department have confirmed the report. 

The 16-year-old girl had appeared for the Kannada and Mathematics exams on June 25 and 27 respectively. 

Her throat swabs were sent for testing on June 27 after her father tested covid-19 positive. Today she too obtained positive report.  

The student is unlikely to appear for the science paper on June 29.

Meanwhile, health officers have ruled out the possibility of subjecting other students to covid-19 test as all necessary precautions such as physical distancing and usage of sanitization were taken in the examination centre.

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January 19,2020

Mysuru, Jan 19: Karnataka Rural Development and Panchyat Raj Minister K S Eshwarappa on Sunday claimed that Popular Front of India and Social Democratic Party of India have been indulging in anti-national activities.

Talking to media persons here, he said the government is mulling to ban and take action against PFI and its political arm SDPI.

It was recommended even during the previous government, but it was not taken seriously, he added.

He said that the BJP will ensure that all the MLAs who were instrumental in the party coming to power (the then-disqualified MLAs who joined BJP from Congress and JDS recently and won the bypoll subsequently) will not be let down and be given suitable posts in the government.

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RSS will be banned and wipedout from the planet.

Now USA declared RSS as the worst terrorists. So Indian government is terrorist.

 

This is the limit of their brain.

 

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May 12,2020

Mangaluru, May 12: The first repatriation flight to Mangaluru from Dubai with nearly 180 passengers landed at the international airport here. 

The total passengers, including 88 men, 84 women, five children and two infants arrived by the Air India Express flight IX 384 late Tuesday night, airport sources said.

There were 12 medical emergency cases and 38 pregnant women among them, they said. The district administration had made arrangements for receiving the passengers, who were provided with sanitizers and masks. They were advised to maintain social distancing as per the health protocol.

All the foreign returnees were screened as per the standard operating procedure to ensure that they were asymptomatic.

The passengers were taken to their chosen place of accommodation in KSRTC buses. They will be undergoing a 14-day quarantine in the places, which will be monitored by doctors assigned by the health department. More than 17 hotels and 12 hostels have been arranged for the accommodation of the returnees.

Passengers were also asked to download the mandatory 'Aroygya Sethu' app for contact tracing. Rahul Shinde IAS who is in charge of arranging quarantine facilities, airport director V V Rao and district health officer Ramachandra Bairy were present at the airport.

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