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Railway budget disappoints coastal people

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February 26, 2011

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Mangalore/Udupi, February 26: The fifth Railway budget presented by Union Minister for Railways Mamatha Banerjee has disappointed the coastal district.

Speaking to Deccan Herald, Railway Yahthri Sangha (Puttur) Technical Advisor Anil Hegde said the long pending demand of the region to extend the train service to Karwar has been realised in the budget. However, the demand of the people to run Mangalore-Bangalore day train daily has not been realised even in this budget. Though Howrah-Mangalore train has been announced, the train will pass through Palghat and not via Londa. “If it was to ply via Londa, it would have benefitted the people of the region,” he said.

Meanwhile, the proposal to extend Mangalore-Bangalore train to Subramanya too did not get any recognition in the budget. “We had demanded to upgrade Subramanya road station as Subramanya terminal station, so that any train can be started from there. However, the proposal has not been included in the budget.”

KCCI President G G Mohandas Prabhu said that the proposal on starting a train service between Mangalore-Howrah has been realised. “However, we had asked the minister to run the train via North Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh-Orissa and Howrah. The sanctioned train will run via Palghat, which means Mangaloreans will have to travel 24 hours more to reach Howrah. We had also asked the Minister to start an additional night train to Bangalore, which has not been considered in the budget.”

Udupi Railway Yatri Sangha President R L Dias said that the people in coastal areas have been neglected in the railway budget except one demand of extending Bangalore-Mangalore (Yeshwanthapura-Arsikere) train to Karwar. Our interests have not been taken into consideration. Extension of Bangalore-Mangalore train is the outcome of our struggle for the last two years.

However, the request for the stoppage of Dehradun train, Amritsar train and Poona-Ernakulam Express train at Udupi has not been considered,” he rued.

Udupi MLA Raghupathy Bhat said the Central government should be applauded for considering the demand of extending Bangalore-Mangalore train to Karwar. “People of Udupi will have easy access to Bangalore. This also helps for the development of this part of the region. If the budget had failed to react to our demand, we would have started rail roko the very next day. It is a wonderful budget,” he added.


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May 23,2020

Udupi, May 23: Five more persons tested positive for coronavirus in the coastal district of Udupi today. 

They include three men aged 37, 55, 31 and two women aged 48 and 34. 

Among them four are returnees from Mumbai and one is foreign returnee.

With this the total number of covid-19 cases in the district rose to 55.

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July 18,2020

Udupi, Jul 18: Noted multi-lingual scholar Dr Uliyar Padmanabha Upadhyaya passed away last night at a private hospital in Manipal. The 88-year-old was survived by a son and a daughter.

His wife Susheela Uadhyaya, who was also a multi-lingual scholar, had passed away in January 2014 at the age of 77. The duo had compiled the six-volume Tulu Lexicon. Its first volume was published in 1988 and the last volume in 1997.

Son of Sitaram Upadhyaya, who was a scholar in the court of the Raja of Travancore, Dr Padmanabha was born on April 10, 1932 at Uliyar in Majur Village near Kaup in Udupi district. 

The Upadhyaya couple had conducted serious research work in linguistics and folk culture and produced a number of books-some of them jointly, some individually and some in collaboration with others. 

Dr Padmanabha had acquired three Master of Arts degrees in Sanskrit, Kannada and Linguistics from Madras, Kerala and Pune Universities, Vidwan in Hindi and PhD in Linguistics from the Pune University for his thesis titled “A Comparative Study of Kannada Dialects”.

He was a visiting Professor at the Universities of London and Paris. He knew Hindi, Kannada, Tulu, Malayalam, Tamil, English, French and Olof, the language of Senegal in Africa.

His works include Nanjanagudu Kannada (Vokkaliga Dialect), Coorg Kannada, Kuruba - A Dravidian Language, Kannada - A Phonetic Language, Malayalam Language and Literature (with Ms. Susheela), Effect of Bilingualism on Bidar Kannada, Coimbatore Tamil, Kannada as Spoken by Different Population Groups in Mysore City, Dravidian and Negro African: Ethno Linguistic Study (with Ms. Susheela), Conversational Kannada, Coastal Karnataka and Bhuta Worship: Aspects of a Ritualistic Theatre (with Ms. Susheela).

Also Read: Eminent linguist Dr Susheela P Upadhyaya no more

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