CM orders action against 2 officials for blocking Indira Canteen work

DHNS
July 22, 2017

Bengaluru, Jul 22: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday directed the suspension of Bengaluru South tahsildar S M Shivakumar and ordered issue of show-cause notice to Bengaluru regional commissioner M V Jayanthi for obstructing the construction of the state government’s flagship programme Indira Canteen at one of the locations in the city.Siddaramaiah4414

Siddaramaiah was reviewing the Indira Canteen project that offers meals and tiffin at subsidised rates to the urban poor. The government had set a deadline of August 15 to kick-start the canteens in all the 198 wards. However, the project has been facing numerous challenges, especially in obtaining land.

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officials apprised the chief minister that they had identified a location near PES College but Jayanthi and Shivakumar were obstructing it. It is learnt that the revenue department wanted to have its building on the piece of land. About two years ago, Bengaluru Urban district authorities had cleared encroachment from the land.

Sources said Siddaramaiah called the principal secretary in the revenue department Ramana Reddy and directed him to suspend Shivakumar and serve a show-cause notice on Jayanthi.

Palike officials apprised the chief minister that they have identified 182 sites to set up Indira Canteens while the search is on for the remaining 16 locations. Construction work has started at 72 places. They said by August 15, they will be able to set up only 125 canteens. The rest will be ready by October 2.

Officers informed the chief minister that 87 locations identified for the canteens belong to the 23 government departments. So far, 36 sites have been transferred to the BBMP while the remaining 51 sites will be handed over to the BBMP by Monday.

The Palike officers told the chief minister that preliminary work has started on 91 sites while construction is in full swing at 72 locations.

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Media Release
June 14,2020

Mangaluru, June 14: The management of Barakah International School and College has announced to waive off 33% of tuition fee in order to lessen the burden on parents who are undergoing financial crisis due to covid lockdown. 

This decision was taken after a series of virtual meetings with the Managing Director, Academic Director, Principal, Manager and PRO.

“While the school needs to continue to meet all the commitments and responsibilities towards the staff salaries, software, networking, etc, we fully understand that in the prevailing circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, job loss, reduction in salaries, general hardships of the self-employed businesses and the slowdown in the economy,” sated a release issued by the school.

“We would support our parent fraternity pro-actively and at the same time continue to meet the high-quality standards of our teaching- learning process and infrastructure so it has been decided that 1/3 of the tuition fee to be waived off for 2020-21,” the release said.

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June 11,2020

Mangaluru: ‘Team B-Human’, a city based charity organisation, has donated Rs 1 lakh for the treatment of the a three-year-old child from Kinya on the outskirts of the city, who had sustained severe burn injuries.

According to the reports, a cleric at the Kodaje Badriya Juma Masjid, was living in hardship with his wife and two kids and had to recently avail loan to repair his house which was severely damaged due to storm.

To add to his woes, his three-year old son sustained 80% burn injuries after hot water fell on him accidentally. The child is currently receiving treatment at a private hospital in Derlakatte. The child’s brother is battling kidney related ailment.

A fundraising campaign was recently run on local social media platforms to help the cleric in sustaining in the hardship and to raise fund for the treatment of his son.

Taking note of the viral messages on social media, ‘Team B-Human’ came to the rescue of cleric and donated Rs 1 lakh.

‘Team B-Human’ has also arranged Rs. 70 thousand from its well-wishers which will also be deposited to cleric’s account soon. ‘Team B-Human’ in a release added that it will take care of Batish until he is discharged from the hospital post-treatment. 

Founder of ‘Team B-Human’, Asif Deals, members Basha, Althaf, Sadiq, Shameem and others were present when the cheque of Rs. one lakh was handed over to the cleric.

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Media Release
February 10,2020

United Marine Products, Karnataka and Goa has been awarded the MPEDA (Marine Products Export Development Authority) best exporter award for outstanding export performance of 2017-18 and second best exporter of 2018-19 from the govt of India under the category   "Fishmeal, Fish oil and Allied products." held at Grand Hyatt, LuLu convention center, Kochi.
 
The award was conferred in the presence of Central Minister for state, commerce and Industry Mr Som Parkash and Honourable minister for fisheries, govt of Kerala Mercy kutty Amma. Mr Muhammad Sameer, Managing Partner, received the award. 

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