Allow cooperative banks to accept old notes: Gowda urges PM

November 21, 2016

Bengaluru, Nov 21: Former Prime Minister and JD(S) president H D Deve Gowda appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday to allow district central cooperative (DCC) banks to accept demonetized notes in the interest of the farming community.

gowdaIn a letter to the PM, Gowda stated that the Reserve Bank of India's circular dated November 17 should be modified as it bars DCC banks from accepting and exchanging Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination notes.

In Karnataka, there are 21 DCC banks with 708 branches. These banks have 45.91 lakh deposit accounts and 21.73 lakh loan accounts along with advances to the tune of Rs 20,256.44 crore. In his letter Gowda stated: "The farmers who have availed crop loans from the cooperatives cannot repay the loans to the DCC banks because of non-availability of currencies. If they fail to repay within the due dates they will not be able to get interest subsidies from the government."

Gowda also warned about a delay in payments to the dairy farmers and stated: "This has also affected the remittance of milk sales amount from the milk cooperative societies to DCC banks and payment of milk bills from DCC banks to cooperative societies. This will affect the daily payments to be made to dairy farmers."

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naren kotian
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Monday, 21 Nov 2016

Hahahaha Devegowdre ... we are not fools to believe ... we know many of the cooperative directors have politcial affliation .if they allow them to exchange notes ... entire black will be converted into white wiuthin just 10 days . Just use nationalised bank to deposit your money ..:) In kerala , cooperative societies are used as money laundering and hawala outlets by islamic millitants ... so our moidji is right ... hara hara modi ...jai BJP ... jai sangh parivar .

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May 2,2020

Mangaluru, May 2: The Dakshina Kannada district administration is gearing up to make necessary arragements at the Mangaluru International Airport as the Centre has shown green signal to bring back stranded Indians from the Gulf countries. 

Karnataka is making efforts to bring back 10,823 people stuck abroad. Apart from Mangaluru, Bengaluru Airport also will be used. As many as 6,100 people will be transported in first stage with speical flights. Soon after their arrival, the administraion will send them to compulsary quarantinement in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Kodagu and other neighbouring districts.

Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateeel said that the govt has made elaborate arrangements to conduct medical test on arrival at the airport. As per plan, based on medical check-up, they will be categorised as group A/B/C. Later, they will be quarantined for the mandated days, he added.

The following is the break-up Kannadigas stranded abroad: 4,408 people are tourists/visitors, 3,074 students, 2,784 migrants/working professionals and 557 shipping crew.

Countries from where stranded people will be brought back to Karnataka in the first stage include Canada (329), the US (927), the UAE (2,575), Qatar (414), and Saudi Arabia (927).

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May 18,2020

Mangaluru, May 18: The coastal district of Dakshina Kannada today reported two more covid-19 positive cases. One is a 30-year-old man and the other is a 55-year-old woman.

The man, a resident of Karopady in Bantwal, had returned from Raigad in Maharashtra and is under quarantine.

The woman, a resident of Yeyyadi, had fever and hence visited Wenlock hospital for test. She was diagnosed to have Severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) symptoms and later tested positive. She has been shifted to ICU. 

With this the total number of covid-19 positive cases in the district rose to 54. Among them 48 are from Dakshina Kannada and six patients are from other districts.

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July 20,2020

Udupi, July 20: A youth, who was under depression after his business came to a halt due to lockdown, has killed self in Kundapura taluk of Udupi district. 

The deceased has been identified as Nitish Shetty (31), son of Prabhakar Shetty, a resident of Giliyaru in Kota area of Kundapura. 

Shetty was running a secondhand car business in Bengaluru. The business had completely stopped due to covid-19 lockdown. 

After returning to his hometown, he could not find any other job. Hence he was under depression. Hence on July 18 he handed himself to death in his house, police said. 

A case has been registered at jurisdictional Kota police station.

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