Corporation finds two sponsors for its road adoption scheme

March 19, 2011

Mangalore, March 19: The appeal by Mangalore City Corporation to adopt its 22 roads and five parks for three-year maintenance under “own your road and own your park'' scheme has found two takers.

A senior official of the corporation told The Hindu on Friday that the local unit of Prajapitha Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya has come forward to adopt the three-acre Mahatma Gandhi Park at Mannagudda and Durga Facilities Management Services has come forward to maintain the 700-metre tar road stretch between Karavali Circle and Mahaveera Circle. The corporation would soon enter into memoranda of understanding with them, the official said.

Karavali Circle-Mahaveera Circle Road is 14 metres in width and its median is one metre wide. The corporation has estimated its annual maintenance cost at Rs. 18.80 lakh.

It includes pavement patchworks and cleaning, kerb patchworks and painting, median patchworks and painting, streetlight replacing, marking zebra crossing, on street marking, maintaining traffic signboards, maintaining cat's eye and reflective tapes, carriageway patchwork, joint filling and cleaning, roadside tree plantation and watering and maintaining bus bays.

A booklet prepared by the corporation said the amount mentioned was only indicative cost. It estimated the annual maintenance cost of Mahatma Gandhi Park at Rs. 9.94 lakh.

Time sought

Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada Subodh Yadav convened a meeting here on Friday to discuss with representatives of banks and other establishments that were interested in adopting the roads and parks.

However, the representatives said they needed to discuss it with their higher ups. Most of the participants in the meeting were from banks.

Although Mr. Yadav offered them a chance to block the roads that they were interested in, the bankers said they need to discuss it with their higher ups since it involved financial aspects.

Mr. Yadav said the Government had been keen on implementing the scheme with effect from April. He said that every organisation had its corporate social responsibility.

The Deputy Commissioner said he had mooted the concept of adoption as sometimes the Government did not have enough funds to take up maintenance work immediately. Even if it had funds, long procedures involved did not allow implementing emergency works. Hence some works got delayed.

Mr. Yadav asked the bankers to get back to the corporation after discussing it with their higher ups.

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Block, district presidents in Karnataka will be changed soon: KPCC working president

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September 14,2024

Mangaluru: The block level and District Congress Committee presidents in the state will be changed in the next one month for better reach into society and bring in organisational fortification, said Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee working president G C Chandrasheker on Saturday.

The All India Congress Committee and KPCC have a vision for bringing a change in how the party works with the last man and woman in the state, he said at a press conference here.

"We are looking at bringing development models into the state with a new vision. We are a party that likes to work with the opposition in the developmental aspects and keep all other matters away that do not relate to the development of the state.

"We have a great respect for the people of the coast who are considered to be forward-looking and perceptible, but it is also true that we do not have the numbers in the upper house and in the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs)," he said.

"Our endeavour is to not only create a strong pro-development workforce at the base level by strengthening the second and third level leadership in the state," he said.

Chandrasheker, who is also a Rajya Sabha member, said that he and his four colleagues of the rank of working presidents of the KPCC are going to every district to infuse the new thinking in our workers and leaders.

"This move will get a new surge considering the party is facing byelections in Shiggaon, Chennapatna and Sandhur segments and also vacant seats in the legislative council, followed by elections to the Urban Local Bodies and Panchayats" he said.

When asked about the reason for the changes, Chandrashekar said most of the people have already lived their tenures. The party wants to reward those who have not been given tickets to contest in the 2023 state assembly elections and 2024 Lok Sabha elections for political reasons.

There are quite good leaders and hard-working ground level workers who have great potential to lead the party in the coming years, he said.

"Women will get at least one top post in all District Congress Committees and block levels. There is also a move to give responsible positions for the workers and leaders coming from different strata of society, which are deliverable. The party will not shy away from it," he said.

The other two working presidents, Dr Manjunath Bhandary and Vasanth Kumar, were also present at the press conference.

Kumar said some of the regions in the state are dominated by the BJP. "We want to end this run and defeat the divisive models of the BJP." Bhandary said the Indian National Congress was aiming at a high development phase in the state and involve the opposition parties and their leaders in the development plans in the state.

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Mandya: Over 50 arrested, holiday for schools after Ganesha procession turns violent near dargah

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September 12,2024

Mysuru: More than 50 people have been arrested in connection with the riots between two groups of different faiths, at Nagamangala town, Mandya district, over the Ganesha idol procession, on Wednesday night.

High drama prevailed in front of the Nagamangala town police station on Thursday morning, with women belonging to both Hindu and Muslim communities staging a protest against the arrest of their family members and demanding their release.

The two groups started arguing over the Ganesha idol procession on the Mysuru-Nagamangala road, near a 'dargah'. This soon turned violent with stone being pelted. Reports said that around 25 shops were also set on fire.

Several vehicles were damaged and torched by the mob. However, police intervened and brought the situation under control, deploying additional police forces.

Holiday has been declared to schools and colleges in Nagamangala town until further notice. Police have imposed section 144 till 12 noon of September 14.

SP Mallikarjuna Baladandi, IGP (Southern Range) Boralingaiah, DC Kumar and other officials visited the spot.

District incharge Minister N Chaluvarayaswamy visited the spot on Thursday morning and took stock of the situation. Speaking to reporters he said, the incident was unfortunate.

"The clash which started around 9 pm on Wednesday, flared up with miscreants setting fire, damaging shops and vehicles in the town. There is no need for anxiety. Additional police forces have been deployed in the town and the situation is under control now," he said.

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