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Palemar directs MESCOM to announce load shedding schedule in DK

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October 22, 2011

Mangalore, October 22: The issues of load shedding, sand mining and unrepaired roads dominated the progress review meeting of Karnataka Development Programme held at Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat here on Saturday.

Expressing unhappy over the unscheduled load shedding, District in-charge Minister Krishna J Palemar directed the officials of Mangalore Electricity Supply Company to announce its load shedding schedule through media.

He took this step after Mangalore MLA U T Khader complained that people were facing inconvenience due to several hours of unscheduled load shedding in many parts of the district. “The situation is worst in rural areas”, he added.

Countering a MESCOM official's claim that people in the district are facing only one hour of power shut down a day, Mr Khader said that there was no pattern for power cut. In some rural areas the duration of unscheduled load shedding is more than five to six hours a day, he said.

Following the complaints of pending asphalting and concretisation works, the District in-charge minister set a three month dead line before the officials to repair all roads in the district. “All the damaged roads in the district should be repaired by January”, he directed.

The minister also directed the Mines and Geology officials to allow transport of sand in the district by issuing licences to the local sand miners. He also directed them to start issuing licences to extract laterite soil bricks, which was banned by former Deputy Commissioner V Ponnuraj.

Zilla Panchayat president K T Shailaja Bhat presided over the meeting. CEO K N Vijayaprakash was present.

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Bengaluru, Jul 27: The Karnataka government on Sunday directed the Director General of Police Praveen Sood to submit a detailed report on the internal security following the United Nations' observation that international terror outfit IS was active in the state.

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It also warned that there were 'significant numbers' of ISIS operatives in Karnataka and Kerala. Reacting to the UN report, Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said the state government has taken a serious note of the report on the activities of IS in the state.

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