Gail's gas pipeline to reach Mangalore too

April 13, 2013

Bangalore, Apr 13: Gas Authority of India Limited's (Gail) Dabhol-Bangalore gas pipeline would be extended to Mangalore too, according to Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas M. Veerappa Moily.

Addressing media persons in Bangalore, the minister said that the gas line already laid between Dhabol in Maharashtra to Bangalore would be also be taken to Mangalore from Chitradurga to supply it to domestic and commercial consumers in the coastal city.

Mr. Moily, who is also a member of the Congress Campaign Committee, charged the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Karnataka for ignoring his offer to use the compressed natural gas for running road transport corporation buses including those of Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation to reduce pollution.

Similarly, he said that the diesel power generator at Yelahanka, which has been polluting atmosphere, could have also been replaced with gas.

Asked what his achievement as a union minister was, Mr. Moily said that bringing gas to Bangalore was one and promised that he would take it to Mangalore also for the benefit of the people there.

Asked why the Centre did not provide coal to Chattisgarh thermal power plant to be jointly set up with Karnataka government, he said it would not benefit the State as there was no grid. He however said that it would be provided by December.

Commenting on the cost sharing in the railway projects by the BJP government in the State, he said it did not benefit the people as the State Government had failed to provide land and other facilities asked for by the Railway Ministry.

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Waqf land: Karnataka govt warns action against officials issuing eviction notice to farmers

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November 10,2024

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has warned that disciplinary action will be taken against those officials who change the land mutation records and serve eviction notices to farmers under the Waqf Act.

In a letter, the Revenue Department Principal Secretary Rajender Kumar Kataria reminded all regional commissioners and deputy commissioners in the districts that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah recently had a meeting following complaints about certain land properties being made in favour of the Karnataka Board of Waqfs.

In the meeting it was decided that all the directions issued previously by any government office or authority to change the mutation records has been withdrawn, the letter said.

It added that all the notices served in the past have also been withdrawn and no action should be taken against the farmers who are cultivating on the said land.

On the directions of the chief minister, the previous letters and the latest reminders served on November 7 to the farmers and land owners have been withdraw, the letter said.

"The officials who served reminder-2 despite the chief minister's direction will face appropriate disciplinary action," Kataria said in his letter.

He said he has been instructed to strictly implement the chief minister's direction.

The fresh direction was issued in poll-bound Karnataka, where bypolls to three crucial assembly segments are due on November 13.

Some farmers in Honwad village in Vijayapura in north Karnataka had alleged last month that they were served eviction notices as the Waqf Board claimed rights over it.

Subsequently, complaints started in pouring in from some other parts of the state.

BJP leader Tejasvi Surya on October 25 alleged that Karnataka Waqf Minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan directed the deputy commissioners and revenue officials to register lands in favour of the Waqf Board within 15 days, which resulted in confusion.

On Surya's request, the Chairman of the Joint Committee of Parliament on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, Jagdambika Pal visited Karnataka on November 7 and met farmers in Hubballi, Vijayapura and Belagavi districts who had alleged that their lands were marked as Waqf properties.

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