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Drones will fly over Karnataka to assess agricultural land, crops

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August 9, 2018

Bengaluru, Aug 9: Soon, there will be drones flying over the fields of North Karnataka, as the state government turns to technology to estimate crop damage due to deficit rainfall in a quick, standardized and objective manner.

Agriculture minister N H Shivashankar Reddy on Wednesday said the department will be taking the assistance of drones for the first time to assess crop damage, although the previous Congress government had used the technology to survey agricultural lands in the state.

“The present survey is not able to throw light on agricultural lands and crops grown on them. Several RTCs show there are no crops grown at all on them. Building on the current survey which has been commissioned, we will use drones and applications to assess the land and existing crops on them,” said the minister.

Reddy said that per day, a single drone can assess about 1,000 acres of land. “And with this being the speed of assessment, we can cover the entire state’s agricultural lands in the next couple of months. This will help get the actual position of crops and land use,” said Reddy.

The minister said that at present, sowing in Karnataka has achieved 66% coverage. Of the targeted 74.69 lakh hectares, sowing is complete on 49.47 lakh hectares, with another 21.04 lakh hectares expected to be sown in the next two months.

“For the remaining 8.07 lakh hectares, we are preparing contingency plans,” said Reddy.

The minister said the government is also trying to replace water intensive trees like eucalyptus, and encourage people to replace them with bamboo. “We are looking to promote bamboo in a big way, considering the remuneration of approximately Rs 3.5lakh per hectare of bamboo within three years. The project will be taken up under the ‘bamboo mission’ of the central government,” he said.

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Naresh
 - 
Thursday, 9 Aug 2018

People can fool poor people duping as govt officials and they can do illegal things by using drones

Suresh
 - 
Thursday, 9 Aug 2018

How a common man can make out which authorised drone. May be this projct will raise more security threats

 

Danish
 - 
Thursday, 9 Aug 2018

So drones are legal in Karnataka? 

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January 22,2020

Mysuru, Jan 22: Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah here on Wednesday urged the state government to initiate an unbiased investigation into the Mangaluru airport bomb case.

Addressing media persons here, he said, “The incident has created panic among the public and such incidents are being repeated due to the failure of intelligence agencies of the state”.

On accused Aditya Rao, the suspect in the case, who surrendered before Bengaluru police on Wednesday morning, the senior Congress leader said, “I have not yet gathered complete information about the accused in the case, therefore I would not like to comment about him.”

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July 7,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 7: Vasudeva Maiya, former CEO of Sri Guru Raghavendra Co-operative Bank, was found dead in his car in Bengaluru on July 6.

The Subramanyapura police have begun an investigation into Vasudeva Maiya's death.  Source said that he committed suicide. He was a native of Kota in Udupi district.

The car was found parked a little away from Maiya's house at around 6.30 pm on July 6.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had in January imposed restrictions on Sri Guru Raghavendra Co-operative Bank and limited withdrawals to Rs 35,000 by customers.

On June 18, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) raided five offices of Sri Guru Raghavendra Co-operative Bank, in relation to alleged misappropriation of Rs 1,400 crore.

The RBI, Enforcement Directorate, Criminal Investigation Department, and Registrar of Cooperative Societies are looking into the financial irregularities at the lender.

The police also conducted searches at residences of Maiya and the bank's chairman K Ramakrishna in relation to the above mentioned case, sources said.

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July 7,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 7: Former Health minister and Congress MLA UT Khader has alleged that the state government has purchased coronavirus equipment for more than twice the actual price.

"Rs 500 sanitizers have been purchased for Rs 900 and Rs 9,000 has been paid to Rs 1200 for the thermal metre by the government. Instead of asking to allow him to work, Mr B Sriramulu, being health minister he must work for the people," he said.

He said that three months have passed since the pandemic started but the state government is still struggling to send ambulances to needy patients.

"Instead of ambulance it is sending final rights vehicle to needy people," Khader said.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, there are 23,474 coronavirus cases in Karnataka including 13,255 and 372 deaths.

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