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Heavy rains continue to lash twin districts

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August 4, 2011

Mangalore, August 4: Heavy rains which started lashing Dakshina Kannada and Udupi since last Monday evening continued on Thursday morning too, inundating low-lying areas and throwing life out of gear.

Strong winds continued to damaged houses and destroy agricultural fields in many parts of the twin districts.

A house which was under construction collapsed and damaged the neighbouring house at Marakada on Tuesday night. The collapsed house belonged to Dayanand. However, his neighbour Adbul's house too was damaged as Dayanand's house walls collapsed. As a result, the wall of the house has been partially damaged.

In the last 24 hours, Dakshina Kannada district has received 69.7 mm rain. This include—Sullia—81 mm, Puttur—72 mm, Belthangady—71.8 mm, Mangalore—65.8 mm and Bantwal—57.8 mm.

The sea erosion has been intenisfied on the shores at Yermal in Padubidri. If the sea erosion continues, then the fishries road and electric poles will be damaged. Several coconut trees have been uprooted following intense sea erosion in the region. The fisheries road at Yermal Thenka is likely to be washed away.

The matereological department has warned that heavy to very heavy rains would occur in few places over coastal Karnataka in the next 48 hours. The fishermen have been asked not to venture into sea for fishing.

Udupi district recorded a rainfall of 78.4 mm in the last 24 hours. Udupi recorded 80.2 mm, Kundapur recorded 97.4 mm and Karkala registered 57.6 mm rainfall on Wednesday. Damages have been reported from Kundapur taluk as well. A house belonging to Shekhar Kala of Nellikatte at Kawradi village was partially damaged due to heavy rains. The house of Rajeevi Heggadathi of Molahalli village was partially damaged when a coconut tree fell on it.

In Udupi taluk, the house of one Gulabhi Bhandarthi of Mudabettu of Kodavur village collapsed owing to heavy rain. The walls of the house of one Margaret Almeida in Puttur village collapsed due to rain. The house of Ramananda Aithal in Manur village was also partially damaged.

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January 1,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 1: Led by two local MLAs belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party, dozens of people today forcibly stopped toll fee collection at Talapady toll gate on the outskirts of the city allowing vehicles plying between Karnataka and Kerala on the national highway 66 to travel without paying any fee for some time.

Mangaluru City South MLA D Vedavyasa Kamath and Mangaluru City North MLA Y Bharat Shetty, who led the workers, said that the Navayuga Udupi Tollway Pvt. Ltd. (NUTPL), the concessionaire of the about 90-km-long highway widening project between Talapady and Kundapura in Karnataka, had failed to complete the project since over a decade.

The service roads and two flyovers under the project remained uncompleted. Hence motorists were facing a hardship. Notwithstanding Nalin Kumar Kateel, Dakshina Kannada MP, arranging ₹56 crore loan to the NUTPL through Axis Bank to complete the prominent Pumpwell flyover in the city, the company had failed to complete it.

The MLAs said that they stopped the toll collection as a symbolic protest to bring pressure on the company to complete the project within this month.

The BJP workers who gathered near the toll gate around 7.30 a.m. forcibly removed the barricades and made the vehicles ply without paying the fee. The workers of the company managing the toll booth did not resist.

The BJP workers said that vehicles would ply without paying toll till about 6 p.m. If the company resumed the collection during the day on Wednesday, the party workers would again forcibly stop it on Thursday, they said.

Shivaprasad Rai, in-charge of toll collection of the company at Talapady, Hejmady and Sasthana on the same highway told The Hindu that the NUTPL collected about ₹7 lakh as toll fee daily at Talapady from over 12,000 vehicles. The loss on Wednesday could be about ₹4 lakh.

The project is being implemented under build, operate and transfer basis.

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