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Indians are tolerant to zeros: Santosh Hegde

July 1, 2011

Mangalore, July 2: Lokayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde said that it is time to introspect and ask ourselves if we have really lived up to the expectations of the people who fought and sacrificed their lives to earn us freedom.

Addressing the C A Foundation Day celebration here on Friday, the Lokayukta said that India has broken out of its identity of being a 'third world country' and is racing with some of the developed countries of the world.

“India has developed, undoubtedly, but we have to question if the development has happened across the country or only in certain pockets of the country. In either of the cases, we have to question who is responsible for the same,” he said and added if India on one hand boasts of producing 29 multi billionaires, it is the same country which also has the pathetic situation of the lady of the house milling four to five kms to get a pot of water in rural pockets. “I say there is a contribution of each one of us for the non development of certain pockets and development of only individuals. The professional code of conduct in each and every profession has taken a back seat. A lawyer is not arguing the cases any more but he instead acts like a middleman. This trend has entered every profession possible. There is mal-administration in each and every department,” said the Lokayukta.

He said that the Government talks of Gross Domestic Production (GDP), but we have to know if the GDP has been achieved with contribution from people across the society or by the 29 multi billionaire and another chunk of elites.

The 'Zeros'

Accountants' role

“May it be Satyam or any other scam, there is role of accountants behind them,” he said ending with the note that every profession is collectively responsible for what is partly happening in the country.

Assembly Deputy Speaker N Yogish Bhat, National Institute of Director- Karnataka (NITK) Director Prof Sandeep Sancheti, ICAI Chairman Chandramohan K Y and others were present.

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Citing example of Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda who stifled Rs 4,000 crore, Hegde said that Koda, a mine worker managed to take the money out of the country, formed fake companies abroad, invested the money into those companies and brought back the money to India as FDI.

The Lokayukta said: “Our Prime Minister had issued a statement that we should have 'Zero tolerance to corruption'. I tried to make a study on this great suggestion of our esteemed Prime Minister and I learnt that we Indians have managed to cover first three letter of it. We have 'Tolerance to Zeros'. 2G scam has 15 zeros, oil scam has 17. Our scams and the number of zeros in the amount bungled up has been shooting up but we are very tolerant,” said Hegde in ridiculing tone.

He said that the CAG report says that Rs 51,000 crore has been unaccounted in the funds kept aside for eight schemes including mid-day meals, integrated child development, drinking water, Gram Sadak Yojana and the likes.

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August 1,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 31: A total of 5,483 new COVID-19 cases and 84 deaths were reported in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, the state's health department informed on Friday.

Karnataka now has a total of 1,24,115 coronavirus cases, including 72,005 active cases and 49,788 discharges.
So far, 2,134 deaths have been reported from the state.

Meanwhile, India reported the highest single-day spike of 55,079 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, crossing the 16-lakh mark, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Friday.

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May 8,2020

Mangaluru, May 8: Twenty-two students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV), Mudipu on the outskirts of Mangalur city, stranded in Uttara Pradesh due to lock-down reached the campus on Friday morning.

These Class 9 students (12 girls and 10 boys) had studied at JNV Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, as part of an exchange programme, 21 students of Amroha campus studied in Mudipu. 

While Amroha students could return after completing their studies, the Mudipu students were among many JNV students who were unable to return because of the lock-down.

JNV Mudipu Principal V Srinivasan said the 22 students, along with escorts, reached the campus at 7.15 a.m today.

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June 22,2020

Bengaluru, June 22: Even as the covid-19 positive cases are steadily increasing in Karnataka, an expert has claimed that community transmission has begun in Bengaluru and cases could keep rising over the next two months.

“If you look at the natural course of this virus across countries around the world, it is about six months. Now we’re in the fourth month. This will go on for another two months. It also sounds like this is the beginning of the peak. There is also a possibility of the number of cases going up from now on. Even across India, cases are increasing,” says Dr CN Manjunath, director of Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research and State Task Force member.

Besides the increase in number of cases, the virus is advancing silently, stealthily. A lot of people who are testing positive are asymptomatic. In areas like Padarayanapura, Nanjangud and many places in north Karnataka, there have been positive cases who have not had any contact with infected individuals. Some cases recorded in Bengaluru over the last two to three days have not had any contact with Covid-positive people.

Dr Manjunath adds: “We are in community transmission. This will happen because nature is ahead of everything. We have to take all possible precautionary measures at our command. This has to happen. Only then some kind of herd immunity will be developed.”

“We are expanding the guidelines of testing to include a large number of people to be tested. Now, according to the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines, only symptomatic Influenza like Illness (ILI) or Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI), or a person coming in contact with an infected person are being tested.

But since we have crossed 100 days in Karnataka from the first reported case and we’re getting cases with no travel history or contact with a Covid-positive person, we have to start random testing across the sub-group population. Only then will we understand the burden of the disease and what precautions need to be taken,” he says.

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