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KSRTC to run trial bus to airport from July 15

July 12, 2011

Mangalore, July 12: Deputy Commissioner Dr N S Channappa Gowda said that the KSRTC will operate bus from the KSRTC bus stand in Bejai to Bajpe airport on trial basis from July 15.

Speaking at the Karnataka Development Programme (KDP) review meeting here on Monday, he said “there is ban on issuance of new bus permits to the main bus terminus of the city namely the State Bank area as a notification had been issued by the district magistrate in the early 1990s. With the commencement of the bus service, let us make a study on the bus routes.”

From July 15, the bus will ply via KSRTC bus stand-Kadri-airport without entering the heart of the city. RTO Mallikarjuna said there was a scope for relaxing DM notification to start bus services to Bajpe airport from the city. The RTO meeting will take a decision on the same at the earliest.

Runway expansion

Airport Director M R Vasudeva said that the Mangalore airport has received 85 points in customer satisfaction index. There was a need to take measure to expand the runway and provide infrastructure facilities.

Replying to it, Assistant Commissioner Prabhulinga Kavalikatti said most of the objections related to the acquisition of land for runway expansion have been cleared. The survey for land acquisition is under progress. A preliminary notification on the acquisition of the land will be issued within a week. A sum of Rs 36 crore is required for the land acquisition for expanding the runway and Rs 20 crore is required for the rehabilitation purpose. The state government has earmarked Rs 15 crore in the budget for the expansion of the runway, he added.

MLA Abhayachandra Jain urged the authorities to develop Kinnigoli-Bajpe road to help the airport users from Udupi and North Karnataka districts.

Door numbers

District-in-Charge Minister Krishna Palemar raised the issue of issuing temporary door numbers to all those who have been residing in the government land. He said temporary door numbers should be issued to all the beneficiaries to avail the benefits of the government schemes. MLA Yogish Bhat said “let us write to the government to consider the matter of issuing temporary door numbers on the lines of issuing door numbers to those living in city corporation limits by paying double the tax.”

The meeting was informed that there are 48,921 siteless in the district, of which sites have been distributed to 2,444 beneficiaries. As many as 5,002 siteless have already encroached the government land. MCC Commissioner Dr Vijayaprakash, ZP President Shailaja Bhat and others were present.



Notice to absentees

As soon as the KDP meeting commenced, District-in-Charge Minister Krishna Palemar directed in-charge CEO Shivarame Gowda to take attendance of the officials. As many as 28 officials remained absent at the meeting. The KDP meeting decided to issue a notice to all the absentees and initiate action against them if they continue to remain absent to the meetings.


No H1N1 in DK

District Health Officer (DHO) O Srirangappa said no H1N1 cases have been reported in Dakshina Kannada.

He said “the suspected seven samples of throat swab were sent to the laboratory in Hassan and all the samples have been tested negative for H1N1. All the hospitals in the district are well equipped to handle H1N1 cases as all have been supplied with medicines to treat H1N1.”


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April 3,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 3: The laboratory at District Wenlock Hospital has initiated trial for Covid 19 testing, close on the heels of receiving permission from state government.

Doctors, elected representatives and stakeholders had repeatedly demanded that a laboratory should be set up in the port city. Without the lab, the samples were sent either to Shivamogga or to Bengaluru for testing. When Heath Minister Sriramulu had visited Mangaluru on March 17, he had promised a lab in the city for testing of the samples.

Accordingly, the government gave permission for starting the laboratory at Wenlock Hospital. The process of registering the lab with Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) will be completed shortly. The laboratory will be fully operational only after it is registered.

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April 27,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 27: Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Monday demanded that the Karnataka government announce a special package for farmers who are on the verge of quitting agriculture as their profession following losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Please announce special package for the farmers to bail them out of the loss due to the lockdown.

Drop many of the schemes in the budget but don't leave the farmers in distress," Gowda said in his letter to Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa.

The JD(S) supremo said the way relief has been announced for the milk producers by procuring the unsold milk and distributing it to the slum dwellers, the same assistance should be provided to the farmers of the state.

"If you don't come forward to assist the farmers, then they will be forced to sell their land," Gowda cautioned the Chief Minister.

The former prime minister said the farmers are on the verge of falling in the debt trap and may be compelled to take the extreme step of suicide due to the losses.

Gowda said the farmers are unable to sell their crop because they are not getting proper price for their produce and are selling their crop at a throwaway price to minimise their losses.

"In just one month farmers reached the brink of bankruptcy as they are unable to sell the standing crops in lakhs of acres of land," Gowda said.

The JD(S) supremo has been championing the cause of farmers in the state and highlighting their sufferings.

On April 3 Gowda has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to look into the plight of farmers, labourers and the middle class people due to the lockdown.

"In such times of crisis, we should see to it that there is no disruption in farming activities by ensuring proper marketing channels to agricultural produce, especially perishables.

Only then we can sustain our long battle against this pandemic," Gowda said in a tweet.

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August 4,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 4: Police barricades, yellow banners, walls with a fresh coat of paint and the sounds of bhajan mark parts of Ayodhya as the city awaits its big day Wednesday, when the first brick will be laid for the Ram temple.

Ayodhya is decked up for the bhoomi pujan that will be attended at the Ram Janmabhoomi by 175 people, who figure in a select guest list of seers and politicians topped by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Concerned over the spread of coronavirus, the authorities are encouraging others not to come to the temple town, asking them to mark the occasion by celebrating at their homes. The groundbreaking ceremony will be telecast live.

Roads leading to Ayodhya display hoardings with the picture of the proposed Ram temple and of Ram Lalla, the infant Ram, the deity now housed in a makeshift temple.

Around the town’s Hanumangarhi area – named after a well-known temple which Modi will visit on Wednesday – both police sirens and ‘bhajans’ in praise of Ram are heard.

Most of the shops in the locality wear a new look, with their fronts painted in bright yellow. A large number of policemen were deployed there on Tuesday. Some sat in the sweet shops, waiting for their next instructions.

Roads leading into the area are barricaded. Yards of yellow cloth and marigold garlands were being hung on poles.

Even on the day before the event, security checks on vehicles heading to Ayodhya begin from adjoining Barabanki district itself on the Lucknow-Ayodhya road. Policemen take down details, including mobile numbers of the travellers.

Senior Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar said the focus of the force is on maintaining the Covid-19 protocol.

“So we are not going to allow any outsider to enter Ayodhya city,” he said. Prohibitory orders are also in force and not more than four people will be allowed to gather.

“The markets and shops will remain open but with strict adherence to the Covid protocol,” he said. Outsiders will be stopped from entering the city, but Ayodhya residents will be allowed in if they produce any identification document.

“We are also carrying out random checks on people living in Ayodhya to ensure that no outsiders are staying here,” he said.

The city’s temples and mosques will remain open, but no other religious event – except for the bhoomi pujan – will take place on Wednesday.

Pickets have been set up at sensitive points in the city.

Sub-inspector Ram Chandra Yadav and constables Avnish Kumar and Ankit Chaudhary man the Terhi Bazar Chauraha picket near the Ram Janmabhoomi site.

"We are here for the past some days, and were on duty on the Rakshabandhan day. Duty comes first and only after that come other things in life, like festivals," Yadav said.

Mayank Gupta, who runs a restaurant, was handing out food packets to policemen, his customers.

"For the last two months, I have been providing tiffin to them twice a day. There are around 100 policemen to whom I supply tiffin," Gupta said.

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