We have a pretty good number forumers core from Mangalore

the list is the people who have their origin or live in Mangalore.
1.abhijith16 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=937689)
2.akhilesh kinnigoli (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=823619)
3.ananda.padebettu (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=511753)
4.ajay ramchandran (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=51862)
5.avi mangalore (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=506791)
6.hakindian1984 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=791527)
7.Krishnamoorthy K (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=208121)
8.Mrphotographist (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=914777)
9.otte bisale (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=953045)
10.TuluQ8t (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=853724)
11.Suj Mangalore (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=853724)
12.mangaloremaddie (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=1058517)
13.Dex_Mangalore (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=576501)
14.DevpTulunadu (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=1020901)
15.niyaz dm (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=1054723)
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Here is the list of people who are not from Mangalore-Udupi but have contributed whole heatedly for this forum..
1.engineer.akash (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=273660)
2.Manjunath kasigavi (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=891903)
3.pavan9741650414 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=839895)
4.s.yogendra (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/member.php?u=743877)

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Tulu Nadu consists of two districts i.e. Dakshina Kannada ( D.K.) and Udupi district. Once upon a time dakshina kannada was vast district with eight taluks. From August 1997 this was bifurcated into D.K. and Udupi districts. D.K. presently consists of five taluks viz. Mangalore, Bantwal, Puttur, Sullia, Belthangady taluks where as Udupi district consists of three taluks viz. Udupi, Kundapur and Karkal. These two districts together are called as Tulunadu, since the most popular language in these regions is TULU.
Lying in the Western coast and touching the Arabian Sea, Mangalore has been historically a ship building centre. Being a strategic port it was always under conflict in the past, thus having been under several varied dynasties Mangalore today is a blend of the new and old. Tulunadu is one of the most enchanting place to travel. Though known for its religious places of worship, the place is blessed with green fields, water falls, beautiful beaches and with rich variety of flora and fauna.

Mangalore was named after the goddess Mangaladevi. The story behind goes along way in enriching the cultural heritage of Mangalore. Mangalore is the administrative headquarters of Dakshina Kannada district, southwestern Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southern India, a port on the Arabian Sea. It is also one the major ports of India. Lying on the backwaters formed by the Netravati and Gurpur rivers, it has long been a roadstead along the Malabar Coast. Engaged in Persian Gulf trade in the 14th century, Mangalore was occupied by the Portuguese in the mid-16th century. In the 18th century its control was contested by Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan on one hand and the British on the other. Under the Mysore sultans (1763) it became a strategic ship building base, which was ceded to the British in 1799 after numerous sieges.

The modern port 10 km north of the town, is now India’s ninth largest cargo handling port. Mangalore's economy is dominated by agricultural processing and port-related activities. Imports include tropical timber from south-east Asia for furniture making, a necessity since India places major restrictions on its own teak felling. The port handles 75% of India’s coffee exports and the bulk of it cashew nuts. The latter are brought from many coastal areas (notably from Kerala, where 90% of India’s cashews are grown); the National Cashew research centre is near by at Puttur.

It has several famous pilgrim centres. The district is a leader in more than one way in banking, private entrepreneur-ship and in general awareness amongst people. The city of Mangalore has given birth to four nationalised banks apart from general insurance companies. Critics call it the Cradle of Banking Industry. It has an airport and an all-weather port and is well connected with other parts of the country. Industrialisation has crept in, in the form of the Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited, Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited, Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited, National Thermal Power Corporation Limited, Infosys Ltd. and a host of other projects proposed for the district, such as the power plants of Jaiprakash Industries and NTPC, downstream units of MRPL, etc.

An estimated Rs 25,000 crores of rupees is expected to be invested in the next five years, a good deal of it in the corporate sector. The completion of the Konkan Railway project will give a further fillip to the trade and commercial activity of the region.

The tile, coffee and cashewnut factories are a unique sight limited to the whereabouts of this coastal town. The St. Aloysius Chapel with its 100 years old paintings, Shrimati Bai Memorial Museum, Beedi Factories, historical temples, historical forts, Saib Mosque and Music Gallery is worth watching.

A trip to Mangalore is incomplete without watching the Classic Yakshagana - an elaborate dance - drama performance unique to Karnataka. A night-long event, with people adorned vibrantly, and dancing to the beat of drums, Yakshagana performance attracts thousands of people.

Hulivesha (Tiger dance) is a unique form of folk dance in Dakshina kannada that fascinates the young and the old alike. Since tiger is considered as the favored carrier of Goddess Sharada (the deity in whose honor Dussera is celebrated), this dance is performed during the Dussera celebration. It is also performed during other festivals like Krishna Janmasthami.
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Mangalore, Jun 28: The Dubai government and Emirates Airlines have jointly extended the facility of accepting Dubai visa applications to the city. VFS Global, which provides consular services and has presence across the globe, will be handling the work of accepting these applications in the city, as the work has been outsourced to it.

The Dubai Visa Processing Centre (DVPC) of VFS Global has become functional at the second floor of Manasa Towers building on M G Road in the city with effect from June 27. This office will receive and process Dubai visa applications from people residing in western Karnataka. The applications will then be scrutinized by the department of naturalization and residency Dubai (DNRD) as before.

The salient features of the new office are that there will not be any restrictions on the number of visa applications being routed through the travel agents or tour organizers. The visa applications will be processed within a short period of three to four days. The office has also been equipped with a unit that responds to emails from the applicants, and a helpline too is being operated from there.

The visa applications are accepted at this centre between 9.30 am and 5.30 pm on all days between Monday and Friday, and 9.30 am to 1.30 pm on Saturdays.

Jeet Sahni, vice-president of the company, said that this is the second DVPC centre opened by VFS Global in Karnataka, the only other centre being in Bangalore. Those interested in submitting their visa applications may contact the office through lifeline, +91 2267203232 or through email dvpcinfoixe@dubaivisa.net.
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Now i request all the posters to limit Mangalore project thread only for all the projects i and around the Mangalore City, This thread can be use to post and discuss the problems and issues and developments happening in general aspects of citizens in Mangalore like:-
1. Administration issues
2. Cleanliness and discipline in public places.
3. Inauguration of new showrooms and offices & etc
Even news from Udupi, Manipal also can be added here

Udupi, Jun 27: It is a bit of a shocker that a bridge under construction since 30 years is yet to be motorable. But given the fact that it is a government project there is nothing astonishing.

The demand for a bridge across Madisalu rivulet linking Kunjalu–Aroor–Kolalgiri that has been long-pending is genuine, for residents of surrounding villages Aroor, Cherkady, Nilavar, Kokkarne, Petri, Udupi and Manipal will be greatly benefitted on its completion. Late Patel Mahabal Rao of Aroor village had understood the need for a bridge in the pre-Independence era as a vital means for linking cluster of villages. However, the dream lies unfulfilled as the Rs 15 lac project was abandoned abruptly after initial works.
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Further, the residents of Kunjal, Kokkarne, Petri and Karje are a hassled lot as they have to take a round-about route to Udupi and Manipal through Brahmavar. The bridge across Madisalu rivulet at Aroor will reduce the distance by 10 – 15 kms. The residents of Belmaru would be the prime beneficiaries as the village inundates during monsoon season cutting them off from the outer world.

Broken Footbridge Lies in Shambles

A footbridge was built to reach Belmaru near Aroor temple about 11 years ago. However, the bridge was used to commute by the two-wheelers and three-wheelers too leading to its dilapidation three years ago. Although it was informed that Rs 18 lac was released under Natural Calamities Fund for restoration of the bridge, there has been no action in this regard.

Bridging the Gap Between Manipal and Aroor

The distance betwen Aroor and education and medical hub Manipal would reduce enormously if a bridge linking Aroor village and a road from Manipal End Point to Pavanje comes up. This is demanded in the wake of rise in students, job-aspirants and patients among others moving to Manipal in the recent times.

Leaders Speak

The area of Belmaru lies on other side of the rivulet though comes under Kunjal gram panchayat, it has been an ordeal for the residents to get the panchayat work done with the missing of a linking bridge. The construction of a bridge will also benefit residents of surrounding villages to commute to Udupi, Manipal and Perdoor, said taluk panchayat member Umesh Naik.

Meanwhile, Kunjal GP vice-president Raju Kulal said that the issue has been brought to the notice of local MLA time and again. It is further planned to take the issue up with the district in-charge minister in the days to come, he added.
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Kundapur, Jun 28: Rayappa, the chief officer of the town municipal council here, has been transferred to Ullal municipal council.

Rayappa had served here for about three and a half years and was quite popular. He is said to have keen interest in e-governance and website information.

He was scheduled to take over at Ullal on Monday.
Mangalorean (http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=247795)

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Cultural land destroyed due to heavy rain in Bantawal

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nature wow.........

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Mangalore, June 29: District in-charge Minister Krishna J Palemar on Monday promised to provide houses to the 1,126 families from the Koraga community in the district.

He was speaking at an interactive programme with gram panchayat members here. The programme had been organised by Sugarama, an association of the elected gram panchayat members.

Seena Shetty, ombudsman for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme, said 1,126 Koraga families in the district did not have any shelter.

An amount of Rs. 1.5 lakh was needed to build one decent house.

“It's our dream to have houses for the Koragas, who are the original inhabitants of the region. Please give us funds,” Mr. Shetty asked Mr. Palemar.

Mangalore MLA UT Khader was also present.
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SPOT INSPECTION:J. Krishna Palemar (second from right), Minister for Ports and Fisheries, visiting the Central Market in Mangalore on Tuesday.
MANGALORE: The fish vendors at the State Bank Fish Market were hardly impressed with the visit of Fisheries Minister J. Krishna Palemar, who is also the Minister in-charge of Dakshina Kannada district, on Monday.

“We have had enough of (VIP) visits to our market, but our condition remains abysmal,” said a Mogaveera woman, who has been selling fish for decades. “The Minister has not bothered to hear our problems and make this place better to sell fish,” she said minutes after the Minister left the venue.

Anguish

She was among the many fisherwomen who expressed their anguish over the continued neglect by the officials as far as improving the conditions at the fish market were concerned.

Mohan Kulal, who has been selling fish for over a decade, said the sellers were forced to clean the market on their own as the contractor, who had been assigned the work, had not been doing it. “We have to purchase water at a cost of Rs. 10 per bucket from the Sulabh Sauchalay and clean our place. There is no water facility here,” he said.

The fisherwomen complained that they were exposed to insect bites because of unhygienic conditions at the market.

Each seller had been paying Rs. 10 for each basket of fish sold at the market to the contractor authorised by the Mangalore City Corporation to maintain cleanliness, they said.

No parking

Jalajakshi Putran said people were forced to walk long distances to reach the fish market. “They do not allow vehicles of our customers to be parked in the inter-city bus-stand adjacent to the market,” she said.

Mr. Palemar told The Hindu that he had asked Mangalore City Corporation authorities to take steps to maintain cleanliness at the fish market and provide water facility.

Mr. Palemar, who also visited Central Market, said a decision on creating facilities for street vendors who were evicted recently from the area, would be taken in the next two weeks.

“I have identified five places where they can do business,” he said.
The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/29/stories/2011062961500500.htm)

Mangalore Jun 28: KIOCL has donated a Max pickup vehicle to the Akshaya Patra Foundation, for feeding midday meals to the government and government-aided schools in Mangalore.

The vehicle was flagged off here on June 28 by K Ranganath, chairman and managing director of KIOCL, K Subba Rao, director (P& P) and M B Padiyar, former director (P& P), KIOCL at ISKCON, Balmatta. K Ranganath handed over the key to the president of the Mangalore unit Akshaya Patra Karunya Sagar Dasa.
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Speaking on the occasion, Ranganath said that although facing a major setback because of the supreme court's order to stop the mining work in Kudremukh, KIOCL had taken a bold step in donating the vehicle for a noble cause. The vehicle would help in supplying food to the poor and the needy people in the society.

Karunya Sagar, speaking on the occasion, said that it was the ninth custom-built vehicle for supplying hot midday meals to the government-aided and government schools in and around Mangalore. The present vehicle helps the foundation to feed additional 2,000 children thereby taking its total feeding to 25,000 children in 143 schools.

"The programme started in Bangalore which is the head office of the foundation in the year 2000 with feeding 1500 children. Today Akshaya Patra feeds 13 lakh children in 8 states and in 18 locations all over the country. Besides the government aid Akshaya Patra spends Rs 75,000 per day on midday meals. In the entire country we need Rs 40 lakh per day to feed the chidren," he said.

The total price of the Max pickup is Rs 7.2 lakh with customized body and racks and the entire cost is borne by the KIOCL. He urged the generous donors to come forward in helping Akshaya Patra through donations and help to provide food for the needy children. He also said that all the accounts in Akshaya Patra are very transparent and all the members of Akshaya Patra foundation serve without any monetary gains.
Mangalorean (http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&broadcastid=247949)

Mangalore, June 30: OneCity Media Pvt. Ltd, the publisher of Yellow Pages directories released its 2011 edition at Mangalore Press, here on Thursday.


G G Mohandas Prabhu, President, Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry released the fifth edition of Yellow Pages for Mangalore and Udupi districts.


While speaking about the new edition, S A Bashir, Director, OneCity Media Pvt. Ltd said that “this edition of Yellow Pages is one of International quality and incorporates several user friendly features like multi color yellow pages incorporating dine, entertainment, leisure information, tourist needs, education etc”. It also contains a user friendly fast index to locate any product or service”.


He also said that directories will be distributed to entire business community in Mangalore, Udupi, Puttur and some parts of Kasargod free of cost.


On the occasion, P B Harish Rai, President, Dakshina Kannada Working Journalist Union OneCity Media also released the updated version of their website www.mangaloreyellowpages.com, which enables consumers to access information on Mangalore and Udupi cities in no time.


OneCity Media, Director L K Monu Borkala, Sales Manager Praveenraj and Madhvi Salian were present on the occasion.
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Mangalore, June 30: Central team ‘assesses’ 2 Grama panchayants in DK in half day Standing Committee of the Ministry for Rural Development headed by senior BJP leader Sumithra Mahajan visited Dakshina Kannada district on Wednesday to assess the implementation of various centre funded projects, to understand problems in implementation, gather suggestions with regard to improving the implementation process and make necessary recommendations to centre.

The team is on a two-day tour to Dakshina Kannada district and Udupi, which are the only two districts that the team will visit in Karnataka. The team will from here proceed to Kerala.


The team’s tour in the district seemed more of a pilgrimage than an official visit. The team landed at Dharmasthala on Tuesday evening, sought blessings of Lord Manjunatha and also looked into the functioning of SKDRDP. On Wednesday morning, the team was spotted at Kudroli Gokarnatha temple and in the evening the team was to visit Kateel teample.


Making time, in between all this pilgrimage, they visited two Gram Panchayats out of 203 GPs of the district to ‘assess’ implementation of schemes.


The team visited Kinnigoli and Ganjimatt, after 2.30 pm on Wednesday. On Thursday, the group will visit Sanoor and Muniyal in Udupi district.


However, addressing the reporters on Wednesday at BJP office, Mahajan did not come out clear on the criterion on which the two places in the district were selected for the tour as there were many other Panchayats which had done exceptionally well and many Panchayats which have failed considerably in implementing many schemes.


When asked about her opinion on the implementation of NREGS in the State, she said that she cannot make any comment on the same as it needs to be confidential.


Now the credible question is that what an 11 member team can get to know about any Panchayat in half day visit?


During the press meet, Mahajan coming down heavily upon the Congress led UPA Government, said that whether the Congress has pair of buffaloes as its symbol or the cow and calf, one thing Congress invariably did was hiking the prices of necessary commodities.

“Corruption has reached its peak. Congress does not have majority. Hence, it is busy luring Mulayam, Maya and Jaya,” she said adding that Congress gave new dimension and magnitude to corruption in the country.


MP D V Sadananda Gowda and others were present.
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Mangalore, Jun 30: The popularity of Vijaykumar Kodialbail’s Tulu movie, ‘Oriyardori Asal’ appears to be increasing with each passing day. It completed 601 shows as at Wednesday. This movie is the first in the history of Tulu cinema to have 23 shows every day in six theatres across Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts.
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The movie also completed 100 shows in the multiplex at Big Cinemas in the city. So far, 23,000 persons have watched the movie over the last 34 days since it was released.

Vijaykumar Kodialbail says he is extremely grateful to the people of Tunuladu for extending wholehearted support to his movie. He has gained confidence to take more such ventures in the future, he added.

Kodialbail informed that the movie will be released at B C Road and Kasargod during the next week, in July last week at Bangalore, and in August at Mumbai. The movie is expected to be screened in Dubai, Qatar and Bahrain too, with the help of various organizations there. He also revealed that a few Bollywood film makers have expressed interest in this movie.

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MANGALORE: An insurance scheme for parents through students at the cost of a chocolate bar. Students in primary and high schools can avail the benefits of Rotary Student Parent Insurance scheme just paying Rs 6 as annual premium at the school counter.

The initiative by the Rotary District 3180 is gaining popularity in the region with more than 2 lakh policy holders in 2010-11. Rotary office bearers are trying their best to increase the total number of policy holders to more than 2.5 lakh this year.

The scheme, which is being implemented with the participation of United Insurance Company Limited, ensures students Rs 25,000 in the event of the death of their parents in an accident. A student also can claim the same amount if the parent is handicapped permanently and Rs 12,500 in case of partial deformity. Further, Rs 2,000 will be sanctioned under the scheme for treatment of parents, if they are injured in accidents.

The insurance amount will be transferred to fixed deposit in the student's name. The student will get the interest annually up to 18 years.

K S Chacko, implementation committee chairman of the scheme, said that the main objective of the scheme is to reduce the number of school dropouts in poor families. "Our main focus is government schools, where poor students study. It is common for poor parents to send their children to work when they meet with an accident. The scheme will be a breather for such children as they don't have to worry about buying books and uniforms as they can withdraw the interest annually at the start of each education year. Once children attain the age of 18, the whole amount will be transferred to their savings bank accounts," he explained.

In 2010-11, a total of 2.14 lakh students in Kundapura, Udupi-Manipal, Mangalore, Puttur, Gonikoppal, Chamrajnagar, Hassan, Chikmagalur, Shimoga and Mysore zones under the Rotary International district 3180 had taken the policy under the scheme. Nearly 1 lakh students have already applied for the policy, Chacko said adding that more than 2.5 lakh students will brought under the insurance umbrella before July 25, which is the last date for registration.
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any youtube link for this .......

No protests in MCC

In one of the major decisions, MCC Mayor Praveen announced the ban on protests and dharnas in the city corporation limits.
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A mammoth whale was found dead on the shores of Tannirbavi near here on Thursday. A large number of people thronged the beach to have a glimpse of the aquatic giant.

Giant fall: The carcass of a whale found on Tannirbavi shore on Thursday. A foul smell had already started emanating from the decaying carcass. The whale is about 15 to 20 ft long. The reason for the whale’s death has not been ascertained.

However, fishermen say that the whale must have either got injured by the blades of some ship or must have died a natural death.

Many others say that the whale must have come very close to the shore and must have found it difficult to return to deep sea due to low water level.

The whales like cold weather. Hence, they are rarely found in the coastal belt alive. Most of the time, carcasses of whales get deposited on coastal shores.

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Newly-purchased Car Falls into Water

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car was parked in neutral gear it moved on its own and fell off the edge into the water. The driver had gone off somewhere at the time of the incident.

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To mark the 57th State Bank Day today, the 13,500 branches of the State Bank of India (SBI), which started on July 1, 1955, will conduct community services banking activities, said a press release. In Mangalore, the bank's main branch has planned to organise activities to celebrate the occasion on its premises at 5 p.m. It will adopt 14 poor girl children (with no parent or with a single parent) and bear their educational expenses.

The branch had adopted 25 such girl children studying in various schools and colleges.
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The Mangalore City Corporation on Thursday decided to cancel the tenders submitted for repair and maintenance of street lights related to 60 wards of the city following lapses found in the process.

At the meeting of the council on Thursday, chief whip Sudhir Shetty said nine lapses had been found by the Commissioner, K.N. Vijay Prakash.

Taking the officials to task for the delay in identifying the lapses in the process that started in April 2010, Mr. Shetty said: “These lapses should have been noted by the officials when the technical bid was opened and the process of re-tendering should have been started. The officials have gone ahead with the process even when I had pointed some of the lapses,” he said.

Lapses

Among the lapses include not publishing of the tender in the District Tender Bulletin as prescribed under the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurement Act 1999. The officials have failed to upload the whole standard bid document in the e-tendering process.

They have not followed some technical formalities such as enclosing details of similar work done by the bidder in the last two years.

“The Directorate of Municipal Administration has pointed out the lapses,” Mr. Shetty said.

The Opposition party Councillor James D'Souza said the council needed an explanation about the lapses that had been committed. The council should be told about the reason why such faulty tenders were brought before it for approval. Councillor Mariyamma Thomas said delay in the execution of the work would cause many problems to people.

‘Lack of knowledge'

The Executive Engineer concerned said the lapses were because of lack of knowledge of the e-tendering process.

Mr. Vijay Prakash said there were legal lapses in the main tender and this should have been corrected by the Executive Engineer and the Chief Accounts Officer three months before April 2010.

Mr. Vijay Prakash said he had issued notices to the Executive Engineer and the Chief Accounts Officer seeking explanation for the nine lapses.

The reply of the two officials would be brought before the council. Commissioner Mr. Vijay Prakash said a few days ago, the State government notified Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC) as the nodal agency to implement the Efficiency in Street Lighting Project in all municipal corporations, including Mangalore.

If the council approves, Mr. Vijay Prakash said Mangalore would get central energy management system and other facilities for saving power in street lights.
The Hindu (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2149702.ece)

Bantwal, Jul 1: When the government or public agencies cannot or fail to handle people-friendly projects, the question of PPP - public-private-participation - comes to the fore.

When works ought to be done by authorities do not materialize, the people step in to do the job, which is a very good move. Something of this kind was done by some enthusiastic and public-spirited citizens from Nainad in the taluk di on Sunday, June 26.
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The road between Neralakatte and Nainad was in a very bad state and badly needed repairs. As there was no official response to the representations from the people, the Catholic Sabha and ICYM units of the Nainad church took the initiative of doing the repairs themselves.

They contributed voluntary manual labour in the form of Shram-daan from 9-30 am and 5-30 pm. Encouraged by the initiative, the public willingly joined the mission and helped in completing the work faster.

About a hundred people took part in the voluntary work. Breakfast and lunch was provided by the Catholic Sabha and ICYM members. The initiative was well appreciated by the general public.

Local leaders like MLA B Ramanath Rai visited the spot and appreciated the good work. Nainad parish priest Fr Frederick Monteiro symbolically inaugurated the repair work. Catholic Sabha unit president Ambrose Moras, parish pastoral parishad vice president Sylvester Pinto, ICYM unit president Melwyn Rodrigues, Sr Marian fsm and others were present.
Maangalorean (http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&broadcastid=248457)

Mangalore, Jul 1:“Trees are one of our natural resources that provide us with food, shelter and oxygen that is vital to our existence. Hence, it is very necessary that we realize the importance of trees and learn to respect nature,” said Canara Organization for Development and Peace (CODP) director Fr Onil D'Souza at a programme on ‘Tree planting’ organized by the organization at Merlapadav-Neermarga earlier this week.
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With his words of advice, he encouraged young children to plant saplings in their home plots. Before distributing neem saplings to the children he explained the medicinal and insecticidal properties of this evergreen tree which is grown mostly in Asian countries.

Rajeshwara High School headmistress Sr Wilma, St Joseph High School headmistress Sr Celestine, CODP project officer Jeevan and others were also present at the programme.

As part of the watershed programme implemented in 1000 acres in Merlapadav-Neermarga by CODP, about 1000 fruit-bearing and medicinal saplings were distributed to the children of both these schools.
Mnagalorean (http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&broadcastid=248622)

Manipal, Jul 1: Manipal University, Manipal signed an MOU with Robert Gordon University of UK on Thursday for a two-year program in Master of Physiotherapy in Sports and Clinical Biomechanics from September 2011 academic session in the Department of Physiotherapy, Manipal College of Allied Health Sciences.

Selected candidates will complete their first year in Manipal University and the second year in Robert Gordon University. This is if the first of its kind in the field of Physiotherapy in India and there is great scope for Sports and Clinical Biomechanist in India and abroad.
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The department of Physiotherapy, MCOAHS is also planning for collaborative research with Robert Gordon University UK in various field of Physiotherapy. The MoU was signed in the presence of Dr H Vinod Bhat, Pro vice- chancellor, Manipal University and Dr Elizabeth Hancock, Dean, School of Health Science Robert Gordon University. Dr G.K.Prabhu, Registrar, Manipal University, Dr B.Rajashekhar, Dean, MCOAHS, Dr. G Arun Maiya, Associate Dean and Head of the Program and Dr Ioannis Agouris, Sport Biomechanist were present during the MOU signing.
Mangalorean (http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&broadcastid=248595)

ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿ ಚತುಷ್ಪಥ

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ಉಡುಪಿ: ಈಗ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿ ಚತುಷ್ಪಥ ಕಾಮಗಾರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಧರೆಗುರುಳುವ ಮರಗಳು 17,000. ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಬದಲಾಗಿ ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿ ಪ್ರಾಧಿಕಾರದವರು ನೆಡಬೇಕಾದ ಸಸ್ಯಗಳ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ 51,000.

ಕುಂದಾಪುರದಿಂದ ಸುರತ್ಕಲ್*ವರೆಗೆ 75 ಕಿ.ಮೀ., ನಂತೂರಿನಿಂದ ತಲಪಾಡಿಯವರೆಗೆ 15 ಕಿ.ಮೀ. ಒಟ್ಟು 90 ಕಿ.ಮೀ. ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ 60 ಮೀ. ಅಗಲಗೊಳ್ಳುವ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿ ಕಾಮಗಾರಿಗೆ ಬಲಿಯಾಗುವ ಮರಗಳ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ ಇದು. ಉಡುಪಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಮಾರು 14,500 ಮರಗಳು, ದ.ಕ. ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಮಾರು 2,500 ಮರಗಳನ್ನು ಕಡಿಯಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಇವುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಮಾರು 1,500 ಮರಗಳನ್ನು ಕಡಿಯಬೇಕಾಗಿದ್ದು ಉಳಿದವನ್ನು ಕಡಿಯಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಒಂದು ಗಿಡವನ್ನು ಕಡಿದರೆ ಆ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಯ ಗಿಡ ಮಾತ್ರವಲ್ಲದೆ ಮತ್ತೆರಡು ಗಿಡಗಳನ್ನು ನೆಡಬೇಕೆನ್ನುವುದು ಉಚ್ಚ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯದ ತೀರ್ಪು. ಇದರ ಪ್ರಕಾರ 17,000 ಮರಗಳ ಬದಲಿಗೆ 51,000 ಗಿಡಗಳನ್ನು ನೆಡಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.

ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿ ಮಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣವಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವ ರಸ್ತೆ ದ್ವಿಭಾಜಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಹೂವು ಬಿಡುವ ಸಸ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ನೆಡುವ ಗುರಿ ಇದೆ. ರಸ್ತೆ ದ್ವಿಭಾಜಕವು 4.5 ಮೀ (14 ಅಡಿ) ಅಗಲವಿದ್ದು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಡುವ ಗಿಡಗಳು ಮುಂದೆ ರಸ್ತೆ ಅವಘಡಗಳ ನಿಯಂತ್ರಣಕ್ಕೆ ಸಹಾಯವಾಗುತ್ತವೆ ಎಂದು ಆಶಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ರಾತ್ರಿ ವೇಳೆ ರಸ್ತೆ ಅವಘಡ ನಡೆಯುವುದು ಹೆಡ್*ಲೈಟ್* ಪ್ರಖರತೆಯಿಂದ. ಎರಡು ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕ ಮಾರ್ಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಇದಿರುಬದಿರಾಗಿ ಸಾಗುವ ವಾಹನಗಳ ಬೆಳಕು ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಸಸ್ಯರಾಶಿಗಳಿಂದ ತಡೆಯಲ್ಪಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಹೀಗಾಗಿ ಅವಘಡಗಳ ಸಂಭವ ಕಡಿಮೆ ಆಗುತ್ತದೆ ಎನ್ನುವುದು ಅಧ್ಯಯನದಿಂದ ಶ್ರುತಪಟ್ಟ ವಿಷಯ. ಇದನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಯೋಗಕ್ಕೆ ಇಳಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಇನ್ನು ರಸ್ತೆ ಆಚೀಚೆ ಭೂಸ್ವಾಧೀನಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಂಡ ಜಾಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹಣ್ಣಿನ ಗಿಡಗಳನ್ನು ನೆಡಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.

ಲೋಕೋಪಯೋಗಿ ಇಲಾಖೆ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಬೃಹದಾಕಾರದ ಮರಗಳು ರಸ್ತೆಗೆ ಮಾರಕ. ಇದರಿಂದ ಮಳೆಗಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ತೊಟ್ಟಿಕ್ಕುವ ನೀರು ಒಂದೆಡೆ, ಬೇರುಗಳು ಇನ್ನೊಂದೆಡೆ ರಸ್ತೆಯ ಡಾಮರುಗಳನ್ನು ಹಾಳುಗೆಡಹುತ್ತವೆ ಎನ್ನುವುದು ಇಲಾಖೆಯ ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ವರದಿ. ಇಲ್ಲಿ 'ಅಕ್ಕಿ ಮೇಲೆ ಆಸೆ ನೆಂಟರ ಮೇಲೆ ಪ್ರೀತಿ' ಎಂಬಂತೆ ಅತ್ತ ಗಿಡವನ್ನು ನೆಡಲೂ ಬೇಕು, ಇತ್ತ ರಸ್ತೆಯೂ ಹಾಳಾಗಬಾರದು ಎಂಬ ನೀತಿ ಅನುಸರಿಸಬೇಕಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಈ ಕಾರಣಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಗೋಳಿ ಮರದಂತಹ ಬೃಹದಾಕಾರದ ಮರಗಳನ್ನು ನೆಡುವ ಬದಲು ಹಣ್ಣಿನ ಗಿಡಗಳನ್ನು ನೆಡುವ ಗುರಿ ಇರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಈ ಗಿಡಮರಗಳನ್ನು ನೆಡುವ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಹೊಣೆಗಾರಿಕೆ ಗುತ್ತಿಗೆದಾರರದ್ದು. ಇದು ಒಪ್ಪಂದಪತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಡಕವಾಗಿದೆ. ರಾ.ಹೆ. ಪ್ರಾಧಿಕಾರ ತೋಟಗಾರಿಕಾ ಇಲಾಖೆಯವರ ಸಲಹೆ ಪಡೆದು ಮಾರ್ಗದರ್ಶನ ನೀಡಿದಂತೆ ಗುತ್ತಿಗೆದಾರರು ಅನುಷ್ಠಾನಗೊಳಿಸಬೇಕಾಗಿದೆ. ಈ ಮಳೆಗಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಗಿಡ ನೆಡುವುದು ಅಸಂಭವ. ಈಗ ಭೂಸ್ವಾಧೀನ ಪ್ರಕ್ರಿಯೆ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣಗೊಳ್ಳದ ಕಾರಣ ಮುಂದಿನ ಮಳೆಗಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಗಿಡ ನೆಡುವ ಕಾರ್ಯ ನಡೆಯಬಹುದು.

89 ಲ.ರೂ. ಪರಿಹಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕ ಅರಣ್ಯೀಕರಣ

ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿ ಬದಿಯ ಗಿಡಮರಗಳನ್ನು ಕಡಿಯಲು ಅರಣ್ಯ ಇಲಾಖೆಗೆ (ಮಂಗಳೂರು ಮತ್ತು ಕುಂದಾಪುರ ವಿಭಾಗಕ್ಕೆ) ರಾ.ಹೆ. ಪ್ರಾಧಿಕಾರ ಪ್ರತಿ ಕಿ.ಮೀ.ಗೆ 90,000 ರೂ.ನಂತೆ ಒಟ್ಟು 89 ಲ.ರೂ. ಪರಿಹಾರವನ್ನು ನೀಡಿದೆ. ಇದು ಮರಗಳನ್ನು ಕಡಿದ ಬಾಬು¤ ಆಗುವ ನೈಸರ್ಗಿಕ ನಷ್ಟ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಕೊಡುವ ಪರಿಹಾರ. ಇದಲ್ಲದೆ ಮರದ ಮೌಲ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಶೇ.50 ಭಾಗವನ್ನು ಅರಣ್ಯ ಇಲಾಖೆಗೆ ಕೊಡಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಈ ಮೊತ್ತದಲ್ಲಿ ಕುಂದಾಪುರ ವಿಭಾಗಕ್ಕೆ 69.8 ಲ.ರೂ., ಮಂಗಳೂರು ವಿಭಾಗಕ್ಕೆ 7.1 ಲ.ರೂ. ಉಳಿದ ಶೇ.50 ಮೊತ್ತ (ಅರಣ್ಯ ಇಲಾಖೆಗೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟ ಮೊತ್ತದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿದ ಅರಣ್ಯ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ ತೆರಿಗೆ ಶೇ.8 ಹೊರತುಪಡಿಸಿ) ಭೂಮಿ ಹೊಂದಿದ ಕೇಂದ್ರದ ಲೋಕೋಪಯೋಗಿ ಇಲಾಖೆಗೆ ಹೋಗುತ್ತದೆ.

ನಿಗದಿತ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮುಗಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಕಾರಣ ಮರಗಳನ್ನು ಕಡಿಸುವ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಹೊಣೆಯನ್ನು ರಾ.ಹೆ. ಪ್ರಾಧಿಕಾರವೇ ವಹಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಕೊಟ್ಟ ಪರಿಹಾರಧನದಲ್ಲಿ ಅರಣ್ಯ ಇಲಾಖೆ ಪರಿಹಾರಾತ್ಮಕ ನೆಡುತೋಪು (ಕಂಪನ್ಸೇಟರಿ ಫಾರೆಸ್ಟ್*) ಬೆಳೆಸಬೇಕೆಂದಿದೆ.

ಗೋಚರಿಸುವ-ಗೋಚರಿಸದ ವಿಚಾರ

ನಾವು ಕಾಣುವ ಗಿಡಮರಗಳನ್ನು ಕಡಿದದ್ದು, ಬದಲಾಗಿ ನೆಟ್ಟದ್ದು ಚರ್ಚೆಗೆ ಬರುತ್ತದೆ. ಹೋರಾಟ - ಪ್ರತಿಭಟನೆ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತದೆ, ಪ್ರಚಾರವೂ ಸಿಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಪರಿಹಾರಧನದಿಂದ ನೆಡುವ ಗಿಡಮರಗಳನ್ನು ನೆಡಲಾಗಿದೆಯೆ? ಎಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ಯಾರು ಕೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ? ಸುಲಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಕೈಗೆ ಸಿಗುವವರನ್ನು ಕೇಳುವವರಿರುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಯಾರ ಕೈಗೂ ಸಿಗದವರನ್ನು ಕೇಳುವುದಾದರೂ ಹೇಗೆ? ಸಮುದ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ಹಾಕಿದ ಕಲ್ಲು, ಹೂಳೆತ್ತುವಿಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತೆಗೆದ ಮಣ್ಣು, ದಟ್ಟ ಅರಣ್ಯ ಪ್ರದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಟ್ಟದ್ದೆನ್ನಲಾದ ಗಿಡಗಳನ್ನು ಲೆಕ್ಕವಿಡುವವರಾರು?
Udayavani (http://www.udayavani.com/news/full.aspx?story_id=79008&languageid=15&edition=KAN&catid=882)
According to the above article, the road median will 4.5m wide and they will have enough space to plant trees between them, This will add to beauty of the road and it prevents the drivers from the light of vehicles coming in the opposite direction as well.
Trees will be planted on the sides of road as well.
No heavy or big tree will be planted as the roots may damage the surfacing of road in future

There are a good number of media organisations functioning exceptionally well in Tulunadu

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Not only have the national media felt the need to make their presence felt in the undivided Dakshina Kannada district, even enterprising locals have ventured into small time media houses, which have bagged acceptance and appreciation.

Tulunadu’s inclination towards media is justified, because it was about 168 years ago, in 1843 that the very foundation for Kannada journalism in the State was laid in Mangalore, through ‘Mangaluru Samachara,’ a Kannada weekly started by Hermann Moegling, a Christian Missionary.

Though the Western world had witnessed the power of press and had been influenced by the same centuries ago, it came to India only about one and half century ago. However, the credit of bringing printing technology to India goes to the West.

The Taulava districts, which were under the Madras province, had made remarkable progress in the field of education, industrialisation, business, art, agriculture etc, but there was no progress in the field of journalism.

It was ultimately in 1834, when the missionaries from Basel, Switzerland, gave a drastic boost to industries, education and printing. In 1841, they started the Basel Mission Press and got printed literatures in Kannada and Tamil. Taking, printing a step forward, in 1843, they started Mangalura Samachara,’ a Kannada weekly. The aim of starting this weekly was to instill reading habit among the local people. However, any further development in the field of journalism was not recorded for next 50 years mainly because of lack of willingness on the part of the British to give priority to local languages.

This was the main reason why vernacular press did not develop for long, post Mangalura Samachara. They promoted English language as the medium of communication. With English culture over-shadowing the love for mother tongue, in 1862, when the Basel Missionaries started a Tulu medium school, it was the local residents who said that they did not want Tulu language in schools at all. If the locals had not taken this drastic decision, the Tulu School would have been grand 150 years old. Not only this, there would have been a Tulu newspaper as well.

The rate of literacy in the region was also not very encouraging in the district. Further, there were not many writers contributing to the newspaper. All these led to the slow growth of newspapers in the district.

Mangalura Samachara

Coming to the first newspaper of the district, the first edition dated July 1, 1843 cost one ‘duddu’ (one paise). It had four pages of news on village news, government decisions; inter state news, distinct and surprising news, moral thoughts, stories and news contributed by people. It was printed using lithography and was never called a newspaper but was called ‘Kaagada’, which means a letter. Below the Masthead of the newsletter, was a line which read ‘This letter is sold at ‘Kothwal katte’ and the English medium school near Taluk Office.

On February 15, 1844, ‘Mangalura Samachara’ became ‘Kannada Samachara’ and was printed from Bellary Mission Press because Mangalore did not have letter printing technology available at that time.

One distinct feature of this letter was that, despite being started by Missionaries who came with the mission of propagating their religion, the letter was never used as a vehicle for propagation of the religion or to compare two religions or to condemn any religion.

However, the media in Mangalore and in the district has grown by leaps and bounds. There are over 100 media houses running the show here in Mangalore alone and if Hermann Moegling was to see how the seed sown by him has gone up to be numbers, he would only be more than happy.
Deccan Herald (http://www.deccanherald.com/content/173027/saga-newspapers-tulunadu.html)

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Bus parked in neutral gear hit Auto, Sumo & later rams to Compound Wall outskirts Mangalore

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CITYLIFE Car Street gets a makeover and with it a whole lot of street food gets tossed about — some take on a new avatar while others do the vanishing act

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CHANGE ALWAYS BRINGS WITH IT NOSTALGIACar Street today
Step into the newly-laid, broad, spacious Car Street, and a thousand aromas still entice you, but the one that's the strongest is the one of nostalgia. In sepia-tinted memories, curled up and hazy at the edges, you struggle to remember the colour and clamour of the once-narrow Car Street. Its Temple Square is the convergence point of Mangalore's robust businesses, and the rigorous social and cultural life of its inhabitants. In this melting pot, there's food.

There's the legendary churmuri, drenched in coconut oil and a smattering of raw mango and beetroot. There was Taj Mahal, within whose hallowed walls, thousands of joggers regained the calories they lost on their morning jog. There is, still, the famous bajji kitchen Balli Podi, selling potato, brinjal, chilly bajji, or the delicious biscuit rotti (pronounced bis-kut to rhyme the bite you take of this crunchy savoury that's neither biscuit nor roti).

The slim stuffing inside, which clings to the rava-maida crust to leave a hollow at the centre, packs a gamut of tastes: there's a hint ofhingand ginger, the graininess of grated coconut, and finally the aroma of the seasoning: mustard, urad dal and curry leaves.

Sharath Krishna, who is now a professor at an American university, recollects how back in the '70s, he used to cycle from his home on Arya Samaj Road to his friend's house in Car Street. Together, they would go to Taj Mahal, and order dosa and tomato omelette.

Arun Nayak, an engineer now in Detroit, also remembers these treats from Taj Mahal. He says that he would accompany his father to work in Car Street just so he could get Rs. 10 in the evenings to buy a snack from Taj Mahal. “The money would get me thuppa dose (ghee dosa) and a cup of strong, aromatic coffee.” Arun also remembers buying sodas from a vendor at Car Street, especially the Nannari and Madiphal flavours for just Rs. 5 to wash down the potato ambade he would buy from the Balli Podi. He recalls: “The uncle at the counter used to see me from a distance and pack two potato ambades for me, because he knew I walk in and take just that. On occasion, I would disappoint him by asking for a cabbage ambade or buns. Every fried item that he sold was equally awesome. I think he also takes pride that unlike expensive restaurants, he changes the oil everyday or once in two days.”

Kabini Amin, a student of National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, shares some summer holiday memories of the bhajjis: “I went there not only because the bhajjis were so tasty but he was probably the only person in the world who made bhajjis out of unusual things like ripe sweet jackfruit, babycorn, mushrooms etc. I went there always expecting something unexpected.”

Sharath Krishna says that the street food culture of Car Street owes a lot to the visual appeal of the food for passers-by. He remembers the “two-feet tea” served by a vendor near Taj Mahal, the length being a measure of the distance between two cups as the vendor mixed and poured out the tea that's bubbling with froth. “That visual effect was tremendous, and it really influenced the taste!”

Amrita Mallya, who markets jewellery online, also associates Car Street with junk food caught on the go, between college and tuition. Her favourite picks were the ubiquitous gobi and paneer Manchurian and noodles, but she still preferred to get it from the little eateries in Car Street. “The food in Car Street was something else altogether.”

However, winds of change have blown by the peepul trees lining Temple Square. Car Street, with enough place for two buses to drive abreast, is clinically quiet. Taj Mahal has moved from Car Street, taking with it its train of morning joggers. Balli Podi, who used to have his tava of boiling oil at the entrance of his grimy, but heavenly-smelling kitchen, has hidden it behind walls and set up a spiffy counter. And, as Arun points out, “price inflation has hit even the soda”. There's anger too: “Too bad the civic authorities thought a new road was more important than retaining the street food culture of the place,” rants Kabini.

Sukrunde's son, who replaced the frail old man selling churmuri, has given away his pushcart and moved up the street into a pucca shop, but at least he's still there.
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How many more mishaps should take place for the officials wake up?
Mangalore Jul 2 : An Alto car, driven by Anita, hit a median near St Agnes College, Bendur after she lost control over it and landed right over it on the morning of Saturday, July 2
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Speaking to mangalorean.com, social activist Gerald Towers, who witnessed the accident, said that 10 to 12 days earlier he had requested the MCC commissioner, the executive engineer and the corporator to install humps in front of St Anges College as there are seven educational institutions in the area and seven to eight thousand students attend the school and colleges everyday.

The vehicles on this road keep speeding and put the life of the children and commuters at risk. The MCC has not taken any action nor have they tried to put any humps in the area to control speeding. After repeated requests, the traffic police have installed baricades on one side of the road to force motorists to reduce speed.

The Alto car moving from St Theresa school towards Bendur around 8.30 am all of a sudden lost control and landed on the median. Although a large number of children were walking on the road, luckily no one was injured in the mishap.

At the time of the accident, a bus was stopped in the middle of the road without giving way to the passing vehicles.

Mangalore City Corporation and traffic police should take this matter seriously and to put up humps in school areas as soon as possible and avoid future accidents.

It may be recalled here that mangalorean.com had repeatedly reported about the traffic hazards near St Agnes in the past, but not much to avail.mangalorean (http://www.mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=broadcast&broadcastid=248767)

How many more mishaps should take place for the officials wake up?
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People of Padukere waiting for a boat to go to Malpe in Udupi district on Saturday. Photo: Special Arrangement
For many years, people of Padukere village have been demanding a bridge across the Udyavara rivulet to connect the village with Malpe.

Presently, people from Padukere take the ferry service to reach Malpe in the absence of a bridge.If people use the road from Padukere to Udupi, they have to travel about 15 km and the distance to Malpe is 18 km.

Dejappa Bangera, a fisherman, says lack of a bridge will be a big problem during medical emergencies. “Getting in and out of a boat is particularly difficult for senior citizens, when there is a low tide in the Arabian Sea resulting in lowering of water in the rivulet. A bridge essential”, he says.

Lakshmi Kundar, who works in a fish factory at Malpe, said that it was also difficult for women and children to get in and out of the boat. “It is doubly difficult for pregnant women”, he says.

Pavitra, a student of the Malpe Fisheries Junior College, said: “It is particularly difficult during the rainy season as we have to come by boat from Padukere. Many a times, we get drenched in the rain. Besides, there is a lot of rush during the morning hours”.

Presently, two boats with outboard engines operate from Padukere to Malpe and back. The boats charge Rs. 2 per trip. The to-and-fro charge is Rs. 4. The service is free for school and college students. Convener of Udupi unit of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) Vidyaraj said the boat service was not profitable. The boat service operated due to the funds made available by the Devi Bhajana Mandira and Veeranjaneya Vyayamashale in Padukere.

The boat operators are paid Rs. 8,000 each a month. While two boats operated from 8 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. to manage the rush hour. After 9.30 a.m. only one boat operated. “Many a times, students and people miss their connecting buses due to the rush”, he said.

Rs. 6.6 cr. project

Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) Commissioner Gokuldas Nayak told The Hindu that construction of a 350-metre Malpe-Padukere bridge at a cost of Rs. 6.6 crore would begin in October. It would take a year to complete the construction, he added.
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Dr L L Raj Rodrigues, professor and head of the department of Humanities and Social Science at the Manipal Institute of Technology here has been invited to take part in the World Congress of Engineers to be held in London from July 4 to 6.

He is the co-author of three papers to be presented at the Congress and he will present his perspective on oil crisis and related subjects.

Dr Rodrigues will also chair one of the sessions.
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Mangalore, Jul 2: Giving away 81 umbrellas to the students of the Gandhi Nagar Higher Primary School to 'appease the rain gods' to give rain seems to have succeeded. It has been raining cats and dogs in Mangalore, so we decided to conduct one more of such rituals by giving bags to those of the students who did not have them.
Not just any ordinary bags but those with slogans on them to make them think. So, there were about 68 students who were in need of them and they were handed those bags on Saturday, July 2 at a simple function with a small treat thrown in.

However, we just could not resist bringing a bit of scientific temper into the proceedings.
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We asked the children whether giving them umbrellas had caused the rains. One boy said it rained only on the next day.

Then I asked him whether it rained because they were given umbrellas and there was a chorus of 'No's!
Then came a bed of nails with really sharp ones on a plank. It was shown around and the students felt it.All agreed that the nails were really sharp. Then came the question as to who was going to stand on it.

There were no volunteers. So we asked the teachers who the most mischievous boy and girl in the school were. They were named, summoned and 'punished' by being asked to stand on the bed of nails! They, however, kept smiling!

When we asked them why they said it was not paining at all. The children were surprised and one of them explained why the nails were not piercing the skin. He said because the large number of nails were at the same level, the weight of person standing on them would get equally distributed on a number of points. So, a point was made about rational thinking and its need.

We also explained the slogans screen-printed on the bags - they were two - Hands that help are better than lips that pray. When we asked them the meaning they said they did not know. Then it was explained to them what it conveyed. We gave them the example of a person who has slipped and fallen - no amount of prayers can help him to stand and but only a hand given to help.

Then we asked them whether they understood the second slogan which said 'Develop rational thinking for the progress of the nation'. The answer was again 'no'.

So, it was explained to them how scientific temper helps the country to progress by proper utilization of resources. It was also explained to them as to why all of them were not given bags and / or umbrellas. The teachers had taken care to inspect their bags to see which of them had none and the same was applicable to the umbrellas too.

But, we told them that we love them all equally and that the note-books given by us at the beginning of the year and the treat that followed was for all because all of them needed these things.

The funds for these activities have come from a number of individual rationalists who wanted to help children without any strings attached. We do not ask them to sing praises of any Baba or pray to our god or sing paeans to our deity.

We don't force them to raise any slogans but we request them only one thing - think before you believe. We have not put the names of any of the organizations or the donors because want to make the children self-sufficient and help them to whatever extent possible and not look for publicity for ourselves.

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A small article in Mini-Hydro electric projects in various Taluks os Dakshina Kannada
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MANGALORE, JUNE 30:
The Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), in association with Corporation Bank, will conduct a seminar on women entrepreneurship — ‘Strides 2011' — in Mangalore on July 7.

Addressing presspersons here on Thursday, Mr G.G. Mohandas Prabhu, President of KCCI, said the one-day seminar will be oriented towards providing inputs to women entrepreneurs in connection with technology, finance, banking, marketing, etc.

There is no participation fee for the seminar, he said.

The Chairman and Managing Director of Corporation Bank, Mr Ramnath Pradeep, will inaugurate the seminar on July 7.

Dr Madhura Chatrapathy, founder of the Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Karnataka, and Dr S. Sridharan of the Bangalore-based Asian Centre for Entrepreneurial Initiatives (ASCENT) would be the main speakers at the seminar.

Mr B.N. Shenoy, General Manager of Corporation Bank, said that the Corporation Bank Self-employment Training Institute at Chikmagalur in Karnataka provides training to women entrepreneurs.

As on March 31, the institute imparted training to 12,744 women entrepreneurs.
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Mini Vidhan Soudha yet to see light of the day
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The old taluk office in Mangalore was demolished to make way for the Mini Vidhan Soudha. However, a full-fledged Soudha, which can accommodate all the departments of taluk office, is yet to come up in the taluk office premises even after four years. The work on Mini Vidhan Soudha is proceeding at snail pace.

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It was on August 27, 2007, the then Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and Deputy Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa laid the foundation stone for the Mini Vidhan Soudha amidst drizzles. Both, the Chief Minister and the Deputy CM had assured Mangaloreans to complete the Mini Vidhan Soudha work at the earliest.

Unfortunately, even after three years eleven months, Mini Vidhan Soudha is yet to take a final shape. The Mini Vidhan Soudha will come up in 3,712 sq feet area. The basement of the building will have parking facility, strong room, and election section, record room and store room.

Ground floor will have taluk office, sub registrar’s office, meeting hall, court hall, records and computer room. First floor of the mini Vidhan Soudha will include Assistant Director of Land Records and other offices. When the state government released Rs 200 lakh in 2007, it was decided to construct the basement and the first floor with the available fund. The Mini Vidhan Soudha includes 1,012 square feet basement, 900 square feet ground floor, 900 square feet first floor, 900 square feet second floor.

When Deccan Herald contacted PWD Superintending Engineer B S Balakrishna, he said initially the government had sanctioned Rs 200 lakh to construct the cellar and the ground floor of the Mini Vidhan Soudha. The work has been completed at a cost of Rs 269 lakh. In the second phase, the government has released Rs 150 lakh. The tender for the work has been invited and the work will commence soon. In the third phase, a proposal of Rs 400 lakh has been submitted to the government for approval, he added.

“If the funds are released, then work on the second and third phase can be completed simultaneously,” said sources.

In fact, it was H D Kumaraswamy and Yeddyurappa who had named the building as Mini Vidhan Soudha while laying foundation for the same. The blue print was prepared accordingly. However, it looks like Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has forgotten the promise that Mini Vidhan Soudha will be built within a year. At present, the Mangalore taluk office is functioning at the old building in DC office premises, which is causing lot of lot inconvenience to the citizens who approach taluk office to get their work done.

Escape bridge, not a reality yet
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Sasihithlu, near Surathkal (about 10 kms from Mangalore) is a place with beautiful landscape. With Arabian sea on one side and river Nandini on the other, this place is a true feast for eyes. However, this feature of Sasihithlu has made the people of the village live under fear of Tsunami, all the time.

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There are about 3,000 to 4,000 people residing in the region. When Tsunami hit the Indian coast in 2004, the authorities had promised to construct an ‘Escape bridge’ to provide connectivity between Sasihithlu and Kadike. The bridge would help the villagers reach Haleyangadi faster than the usual route. This ‘escape bridge’ has not come up yet, much to the disappointment of the people.

The people of Sasihithlu have to depend on Haleyangadi for Panchayat level and to get ration from fair price shops. If one crosses Nandini river from Kadige, then one needs to walk for 15 minutes to reach Haleyangadi. However, owing to the lack of bridge, the people have to depend on road to reach Haleyangadi. They have to catch a bus from Sasihithlu to Mukka, then take another bus from Mukka to Haleyangadi and have to thus spend at least 45 minutes to reach Haleyangadi.

The historic Bhagavathi temple’s ‘bhandara mane’ is situated at Kadike. The Bhandara to the temple is brought via boat. There were three ferries to cross the river, said Bhaskar, a local resident. Now the ferry service has stopped and those who own boats cross the river.

During the tenure of the BJP-JD(S) coalition government, the blue print for the bridge was prepared.

The then District-in-Charge Minister B Nagaraj Shetty had announced Rs 1.73 crore for the bridge.

Later, even MLA Abhayachandra Jain had mooted the proposal. However, with the collapse of the alliance, the proposal on the bridge remained just a blue print
With the District-in-Charge Minister Krishna Palemar promising to urge the Chief Minister to earmark Rs three crore for the construction of the bridge in the next budget, the people of Sasihithlu are still hopeful of getting the bridge.

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‘Fishermen can do intelligence gathering'

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Coast Guard officials urged fishermen to be involved in intelligence-gathering network of the officials.

The officials were speaking at an interactive meeting between officials of the Coast Guards and the Karnataka Coastal Security Police (CSP) and the fishermen in Ullal here on Tuesday. They said that fishermen should act like the “eyes and ears” of the officials.

The officials said that if the fishermen saw any suspicious activity, person or boat, they could contact the authorities using toll-free numbers (1554 and 1093) and inform the officials in Kannada, English or Hindi.

The officials told the fishermen to follow certain guidelines for safety and security. All fishing boats must carry original documents, they said. Smart cards would be issued on a priority basis to them. They must keep them with their identity cards and the boat's papers in original. They were told to go fishing in groups, and to ensure that the date of registration of their ships is done online. Boat owners should stay by the side of a boat in distress till the latter gets help, they said. They were told not to venture in single boats but always in a group.

“Combined effort is needed for security. If you see a new person taking a house on rent, ask for his identity card, let the local police know,” they said.

The officials said that the fishermen were “very brave” and that they should join the Coast Guard in large numbers.

“You will get a good salary, uniform, and get an opportunity to serve the country,” they said. A person with SSLC, PUC, or degree can join, in different cadres. The interview is held twice a year and the advertisements appear in newspapers, including Employment News. The number of people joining from Karnataka is extremely low. Fishermen know more about the sea than us,” they said.
Alert system

The officials told the fishermen how to use the distress alert systems (DATS) effectively. They said that if the DAT transmitter was found unattended, the matter should be reported to the nearest Coast Guard or the local police.

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Not long ago, many Indians who liked jumbo prawns would consider them the occasional indulgence. It was hard enough to lay one’s eyes on the jumbo prawns; having them on one’s own platter was rare. Things have changed over the years, and thanks to globalisation, liberalisation and privatisation, more and more middle-class consumers can now tuck into a platter of jumbo prawns.

The economies of prawn- rearing, combined with technological advancements, has made this exotic species more commonly available in India. The Karnataka coast is the first region to rear the exotic variety of prawns.

“The jumbo prawns reared in Karnataka were earlier meant solely for export; they are now available at domestic markets at half the earlier prices. What used to sell for `500-`600 per kg earlier is now sold at `275-`300 per kg,” said Suresh Amin, a shrimp farmer from Hejmady, Udupi district.

The transformation in prawn cultivation was made possible by imported inputs — from brood stock to feed and harvesting techniques, all these have undergone a sea change over the years. The exotic species of prawn —Vennamei — from Thailand live suspended in water columns, unlike bottom-dwelling tiger prawns. “That makes them free of many infections, particularly the white spot infection. They also spur probiotic farming,” said officials of the Marine Produce Export Development Authority.
Shyamprakash a shrimp farmer, said, “With modern techniques, a farmer can harvest three crops a year. That is the secret of the abundance of shrimps in the market.”

Even though jumbo prawns are now more cheaply available, the price of a dish of prawns in the hotels remains steep. Rathnakar Shetty a restaurateur in Mangalore. pointed out “It’s true we get export quality prawns for lesser cost, but that still does not mean we can bring down the cost of what we serve.”

Homemakers, however, find a way to make it cheap: “We can make one kg of prawns at a cost of about `250. The entire family can be fed, and the portions can be quite large,” said Sowmya Hegde, a homemaker.

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‘Aadhaar’ launched in City

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The first phase of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) enrolment scheme for ‘Aadhaar’ was launched at Mangalore Head Post Office on Wednesday.

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^^ I thought this thread was for showcasing the beauty of Tulunadu. The above articles can be posted in Mangalore/Udupi projects thread. :)

^^ I thought this thread was for showcasing the beauty of Tulunadu. The above articles can be posted in Mangalore/Udupi projects thread. :)

ok sandybhar i will move them :)

Mangalore, Jul 7: The Yezdi and Jawa club will celebrate the annual "International Jawa day" at Shanthi Nilaya grounds, Balmatta at 4 PM followed by a short ride across the town on Sunday July 10.

International Jawa Day is celebrated world wide on the second Sunday of July every year. The day is special for vintage and classics enthusiasts because owners and fanatics of the bikes irrespective of the date and place celebrate the dawn of the marquee.
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While celebrations are being planned across the country, there are three main nodes in Karnataka - Bangalore, Mysore and Mangalore - where these integral pieces of automotive history will converge.

The Mangalore Jawa & Yezdi Motorcycle Club, while still in its nascent stage, has members from all walks of life, be it students, professors, IT professionals, doctors, engineers, etc all share their common love for their motorcycles, whether they were handed down from their fathers or have just developed the interest in owning one.

The club meets every month usually on Sundays. The riders are content in just meeting up or riding to the nearby beaches or to take to the hills to watch the meandering Gurupur and Nethravathi rivers.

Today as new upgraded models are being launched by companies, these older models have slowly phased out. However, the Yezdis, one of the few bikes from yesteryears are cherished by the younger generation who have made it a part of their lifestyle.

About Jawa

Jawa is a motorcycle manufacturer in the Czech republic, formerly Czechoslovakia. It was named after its founder Janeček bought the motorcycle production of Wanderer in 1929.

It was on March 5, 1961, that the first motor cycle left the gate of the Ideal Jawa Mysore company's plant. Since then they were sold under the marquee Yezdi, which is a transcription of the Czech language term "jezdi" meaning "going or running".

Historically Jawa has been very active in racing, and by far the most active East-European manufacturers in mechanical sports. In track racing Jawa sustained a presence in the World Championship until the mid-sixties with respectable performances considering their limited budget. In Motocross Jawa made an impressive name before its 4- stroke engines became superseded by 2-stroke engines.
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Pramila Joyce Pinto, an inmate of Manasa Rehabilitation and Training Centre at Pambur in Udupi district, has won a gold medal and a bronze medal in roller skating event held at the 13th Special Olympics World Summer Games held at Athens in Greece from June 25 to July 4.

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A reception programme will be held at the KSRTC bus stand on Friday to welcome four special children from Dakshina Kannada district, who bagged six medals, including four gold, in the Special Olympics World Summer Games at Athens recently.

A total of 81 gold medals, 53 silver and 51 bronze were bagged by the Indian team, which comprised 184 special children, in the Olympics, held between June 25 and July 4.

Dhanya S Rao, a student of Chetana Balavikasa Kendra, has bagged two gold medals in 30mts straight race and 30mts slalom race (division F3). Royston Pinto and Anil Mendonca of St Agnes Special School bagged one gold medal each in 1000mts roller skating race and volleyball, respectively.

Meanwhile, Prameela Pinto of Manasa School bagged a gold in the 30mts roller skating straight race (division F1) and a bronze in 30mts slalom race (division F2).

The team will be received at the KSRTC bus stand at 9am and later a felicitation programme will be organized by the Asha Jyothi organization and Chetana Society for Disabled Children at the Chetana Balavikasa Kendra near VT Road here 10am. Coaches Mahesh Kumar, Lakshminarayana (roller skating) and Narayana (volleyball) will also be honoured on the occasion.
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When around 650 PU colleges across the state wound up the job oriented courses (JOC) following government's direction, a college in the city has taken special initiative to start the course again on their campus.

Government PU College for Women (GPUCW), Balmatta, is keen on continuing the JOC in Commercial Garment Designing (GCD) on their campus. However, the institute has to await government's nod to start the course.

GPUCW is one of the nine colleges in the district, where JOC was introduced. However, all colleges had to stop the admission process in 2010-11 after the 2009-10 batch completed the training.

In addition to the prescribed curriculum, GPUCW had started a garment manufacture unit, where GCD students manufactured uniforms for students in the college. College principal K Vasudeva Kamath told TOI that they already had sent request to the government through the deputy director of PU education seeking permission to start the course.

Sources in the DDPU education office said the PU Board will take a decision on the application submitted by the college and the college can start the course again once their request was approved by the Board.

As many as 60 teachers, including part time lecturers and worker teachers, were working in nine PU colleges in the district for JOC. While 41 teachers, who have completed more than five years of experience, were absorbed by the government, 12 teachers with less than five years experience were relieved from the service and the remaining were sent back to the PU Board.

Other than GPUCW, JOC was introduced in Government PU Colleges at Sullia and Maninalkuru in the district. Meanwhile, private colleges including Jain PU College, Moodbidri, Vivekananda PU College, Vivekananda Polytechnic, Puttur, SS PU College, Subrahmanya, St Joseph PU College, Bajpe and Syed Madani PU College, Ullal too had the JOC, which was equivalent to PUC
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Udupi, Jul 7: Prabhu Hotel located at Kota, near here, which catered to a wide clientele for over 83 years, will soon be relegated to memory as it will be razed for four-lane work on the national highway
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Prabhu Hotel was established by the late Devanna Prabhu in 1928. His children Dayanand Prabhu and Mohandas Prabhu continued the family business after his demise. The thatched roof of the hotel was converted into a tiled roof in 1969. The late Devanna Prabhu’s youngest son Kamalaksha Prabhu was managing the hotel till recently. The taste of their unique plain dosa and other eatables will soon become just a memory.

“I am advancing in age and also tired of running the business. The hotel business had to be wound up due to the razing of the building to pave way for the four-lane highway,” says 72-year-old Kamalaksha. He acknowledges the patronage of customers over all these years.
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Mangalore, July 8 (The Hindu): Around five lakh households in four districts whose electricity is supplied by Mescom will soon have the opportunity to exchange incandescent bulbs for the more energy-efficient Compact Fluorescent Lamps.

Executive Engineer (Works) and Superintending Engineer (Technical) V.S. Raghavendra told The Hindu that the contract was being awarded to one of two companies that had responded to the tenders for the implementation of the “Bachat Lamp Yojane”. Under the scheme, eligible households would be able to purchase up to four CFLs at a price of Rs. 15 a piece from the designated company after their records were verified by Mescom and it was ascertained that the lamps were meant only for domestic use. The households would have to hand over their 60 watt and 100 watt incandescent bulbs in exchange for the CFLs. CFLs consume less power than incandescent bulbs, resulting in significant energy savings.

Mr. Raghavendra said the GCI Power and Intact Green Services had responded when the tender was floated for the fourth time from January. The contract was likely to be awarded during the next board meeting of electricity supply company to be held in August.

The government was not likely to incur any expenditure on the implementation of the scheme whereas the companies would have many costs to consider, Mr. Raghavendra said. The company was asked to supply lamps which cost over Rs. 100 in the market at Rs. 15, inclusive of installation charges.

Because of the high expenditure involved, companies had not come forward to take up the project, which led to the tender being floated four times, Mr. Raghavendra said.

After the project was implemented, the company which was awarded the contract would prepare a detailed report on the amount of electricity saved by the project and submit it to the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, which would verify its claims for the award of carbon credits. The cost difference would be made up by obtaining carbon credits in the international market under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol.

He said the scheme was optional and that Mescom was likely to open an outlet in each sub-division through which people could contact the company and the Revenue Department of the company would check the records.
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For the first time, the world will hear Konkani, the language spoken by people in the coastal states of Karnataka, Kerala, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat. And it will be heard at ‘Wikimania’ — world conference on language interface and web media organised by the Wikipedia group at Haifa in Israel starting on August 2.

Thanks to the research done on ‘inter-script transliteration programme’ by the Konkani Language and Cultural Foundation at the World Konkani Centre, experts around the world can now have a glimpse of the rich literature, traditions, music, theatre and culture of Konkani people. “For the first time Konkani will break away from the barriers of scripts, which will give it a universal acceptance,” said Vaman Shenoy, director, Konkani Language and Cultural Foundation Basti.

The two Konkani scholars, Gurudutt Buntwalkar and Hariprasad Nadig, conceptualised this new ‘Inter-script Transliteration Programme’ in the ‘plug in’ version. In an exclusive preview to DNA Gurudutt said “Usage of multiple scripts in Konkani language has hindered sharing of knowledge between the communities. With the advent of Internet, technology has enabled an accessible knowledge sharing platform for Indian languages through Unicode.”

Like any language Konkani also had its share of conflicts over the script. “This new research initiative will end all that confusions,” said Gurudutt.
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Mangalore, July 8: A two day state level “Dasa Sahithya Sammelana” will be organized on July 14 and 15 by the Dakshina Kannada district Kannada Sahithya Parishath at Town Hall here.

Pradeep Kumar Kalkura, District President of Parishath told media persons here on Friday that a large number of litterateurs, scholars, researchers and artistes would participate in the Sammelana.

Renowned poet Venkatesh Moorthy, artiste Husainaba Kanakagiri and Puttur Narasimha Nayak and his troupe would present ‘dasa pada’, ‘Yakshagana Vaibhava’, Dasa Sahitya Sambrama on the occasion, he said.

He said a reception committee has been formed under the guidance of Dr D Veerendra Heggade, of Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala, under the presidentship of District-in-charge Minister Krishna J Palemar.

Higher Education Minister Dr VS Acharya would inaugurate ‘Haridasa Sangeetha Geetha Gayana’ on Thursday in the presence of Shri Vishwesha Teertha Swamiji.

Mr Palemar would inaugurate a book exhibition and State Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker N Yogish Bhat would inaugurate the cultural programmes. Kannada Sahithya Parishath President Dr Nallooru Prasad will preside over the function, he said.

In the valedictory programme which will be held on Friday at 4:30 pm., Dr. Thaltaje Vasanth Kumar would deliver the valedictory speech. The guests of honour will be MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLC Ganesh Karnik, MLA UT Khader, ZP President Shailaja Bhat, Mayor Praveen Anchan, and others.

Kumble Sundar Rao, President of Karnataka Yakshagana Academy unveiled the invitation cards of Sammelana on the occasion.

MB Puranik, Mangalpady Namdev Shenoy, GK Bhat Seraje, Janardhan Hande, KC Naik, Sri Ram Rao Kulai, Kadri Navneeth Shetty and Manjula Shetty were present at the press meet.
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Home Guards & Civil Defence and district fire and emergency services held a demonstration on disaster management on the KPT grounds, Mangalore

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The roof has to be specifically designed to take and transfer the load to the walls or beams. A look by our eco-friendly architect
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Where does the efficiency of roof design lie? In green architecture, it is rooted in how far we work with nature or go against it and then use technical solutions to make up for it. Incidentally, majority of the people cannot afford the costs of mitigating ecological problems created by our designs and silently suffer the house which is a heat trap or pay for maintenance costs of a multi-storey apartment block or clean a school that goes wet with every rain. Very few can pay for air-conditioning, but if the majority seek this solution, the city would suffer!

Roofs play a major role in the efficiency we are discussing about — be it in cracks, leakages, heat gain, activity space, structural costs or design aesthetics.

The roof has to be specifically designed to take and transfer the load to the walls or beams. As such, the stability of a structure is much dependent on its design. Simply stated, there are two ways by which the weight affects the constructed member: the factor that may bend the member, known as tension; and the factor that may crush the member, known as compression.

Wood, steel, reeds, thick stone section and such others which act like a beam are good at transferring tension loads. Arches, vaults and domes, along with other related masonry details like corbelling, take good care of compressive loads.

All roof options resolve how these two forces of tension and compression are balanced.

While professionals freshly calculate the design values for each roof case by case, where they are not involved, as is the majority, people simply do the roof by precedence. Most professional follow some default practice which they keep repeating, where the building owners have no clue at all.

Design options

Would we believe if we were told about a dozen types of roofs in Bangalore? The following list is amazing but true. Sloping thatch roof; sloping Mangalore tile roof (with or without ceiling tile); Hourdi block roofs (in slope & in curve); flat roof with stone slab; normal RCC roof (flat, sloping, curved); filler slabs in flat, slope or curve (wpc tiles, Mangalore tiles, cement blocks, clay hollow blocks etc as optional materials as fillers); arch panel roof; Madras terracing; wood plank roofs; vaults in RCC or masonry; masonry domes; corbelled roofs and sheet roofing (in varied materials). Including the variations, the list extends beyond two dozens! Each comes with its set of climatic comfort and carbon footprint; issues of execution and attractiveness; cost and benefit; problems and potentials; appropriateness and design style; and such other criteria. Incidentally, most of us do not explore all these options before deciding the final form of the building.

Options like thatch roofs could be totally out of race for an urban school, yet searching for the right fit would not only popularise some of the lesser known ideas, but also generate newer ideas.

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FOR A BETTER TOMORROW:Commissioner of Mangalore City Corporation K.N. Vijay Prakash inaugurating the ‘Vanamahotsava' celebration at Sannidhya Residential School and Training Centre for the Mentally Challenged in Mangalore
Children at Sannidhya Residential School and Training Centre for the Mentally Challenged celebrated Vanamahotsava here on Friday by planting saplings.

Commissioner of Mangalore City Corporation K.N. Vijay Prakash inaugurated the event by planting the first of the 48 saplings. School's honorary secretary Vasant Kumar Shetty said that the saplings, which include Mayflower, Mango, Basavana pada, and other fruit- and flower-bearing trees, were obtained from the Forest Department. He said the school celebrated such festivals to inculcate environmental awareness among the children.

The other festivals were celebrated at the school, he said.

The children, who hailed from Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, and Goa would look after the plants themselves and would be responsible for watering them. The age group of the individuals looked after by the 38-member staff at the school ranges from 4 to 40 years.

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It will be closed down along with Kadri Hill post office
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The Bunder post office – from where messages about arrival and departure of ships used to be sent by way of telegrams before the New Mangalore Port was formed – will soon become history.

Being one of the oldest of the city's post offices – said to be functioning from the British Era – is among the two to be closed down shortly. Presently functioning from the premises of the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the post office not long ago boasted of huge turn over for postal department which had employed five to six persons. Today, it is manned by a single India Post staffer with little business.

The other one is the Kadri Hill Post Office on the premises of the hostel of the Karnataka Polytechnic (KPT), from where it has been functioning since 1962. Prior to this, it was functioning from the premises of the KPT itself.

Merger

While the services being offered at the Bunder post office will be merged with that of the Head Post Office at Pandeshwara, the services of the Kadri Hill post office will be merged with the Yeyyadi post office in the Yeyyadi Industrial Area.

The proposed closure is in line with the national policy of India Post to ensure a minimum distance of 1.5 km between two post offices, according to T.G. Naik, Superintendent of Post Offices, Mangalore Division of India Post.

Mr. Naik toldThe Hindu on Saturday that the actual closure of the two post offices would happen once the proposals sent by the division were approved. In fact, five post offices were identified for closure based on the poor business and distance in the Mangalore Division (comprising Mangalore taluk) with other post offices being Maracara Hill (Kadri), Mulki Bazar and Karnad near Mulky. “But we have defended and sought continuation of these three post offices,” Mr. Naik said.

He said the division defended continuation of the Maracara Hill and Mulky Bazar post offices saying they were located in residential areas serving a large number of people while the one in Karnad was proposed to be retained because of heritage value.

In fact, most of the post offices were running under loss and business was half the expenditure, Mr. Naik said. In order to boost business in all the 57 post offices and their 97 branches in the division, a special drive to increase recurring deposit (RD) accounts would be launched soon.

Each of them would be asked to open 300 new accounts, he said.

Bunder post office has 1,500 RD accounts and 20 senior citizen accounts. The Kadri Hill post office has 1800 RD accounts and 1,200 savings bank accounts and 450 monthly income scheme accounts

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The Handbook of Karnataka brought out by Karnataka Gazetteer department says: The British opened their post offices in Bangalore cantonment and Mangalore during the first decade of 19{+t}{+h}century…The postal division of Dakshina Kannada included the entire district and part of the present Kerala.

While there is no direct reference to Bunder post office in the Dakshina Kannada Gazetteer, it says: A sub office of the postal department was functioning under Madras Post Master General in 1837. It appears the Hampankatta post office is the first post office in the district.

By 1858, there were 26 Runners working on three Runner routes. By 1893, the district had one head post office, seven sub offices and 22 branch offices and offered savings bank account system. In 1833, postal services charged 12 annas for dispatching a postal cover to Madras that is 436 miles away. Dakshina Kannada division of postal services was separated from Malabar Anche Vibhaga in 1949 and in 1962 it was upgraded from second grade to first grade.
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Sand and other construction materials have become dearer.

There has been an increase in the number of projects in Mangalore. Prices of these projects have gone up due to the escalating prices of various inputs. .

While sand prices have more than doubled in the past few months, materials such as laterite stone, gravel and cement are adding their bit to the increase. The shortage of labour makes it tougher for builders. Mr K. Narasimha Prabhu, former President of Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), who has been conducting property shows, told Business Line that prices of most projects have gone up by at least 25 per cent in a year.

He said that at the property exhibition a year ago, projects were quoted Rs 2,750-3,000 a sq ft.

A national level player quoted Rs 3,750 a sq ft then. Now, developers are quoting around Rs 4,000 a sq ft.

He said that a luxury project now costs Rs 4,250-4,500 a sq ft while budget flats are being sold at Rs 3,000 a sq ft.

Stakeholders in the construction industry attribute the steep increase in the price of the sand as one of the major reasons for their troubles. Mr Sharun Anchan, an architect, said that sand costs around Rs 25 a cubic ft compared with Rs 9 a cubic ft in February. Gravel costs Rs 30 a cubic ft as against Rs 22 in February. Laterite stone costs around Rs 18 a piece as against Rs 12.50 previously. The increase in cement prices is also adding to the woes of prospective buyers.

Mr Purushotham Shenoy, a cement dealer from Mangalore, said that cement prices have gone up by 10 per cent. Cement, which was around Rs 280 a bag in May-June 2010, quoted at Rs 225 a bag in September 2010.

Later prices went up to around Rs 320 a bag, he said. The consumption of cement could be around 70,000 tonnes a month in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, Mr Shenoy said.

The short supply of local labour has made builders and developers to look for manual labour from outside the State.

Mr P.M.A. Razak, Secretary of Credai(Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India), Mangalore Chapter, said that there is acute labour shortage in the construction industry. The number of work force from northern India is also coming down now.

Mr Vijaya Vishnu Mayya T., Chairman of the Mangalore Centre of Association of Consulting Civil Engineers, said the prices of inputs for construction industry are not regulated. There should be a regulatory authority. The cost of construction has gone up by about 25 per cent in the last three months, he said.

Irrespective of the increase in the prices of many projects, there is a perception that there could be a correction as people are finding it impossible to buy at these prices.

Mangalore Jul 11 (2:00 P.m): The state department of forests, in association with the Mangalore City Corporation and public education board held the Green Mangalore Drive on the Nehru Maidan grounds here on Monday, July 11.

Minister in charge of the district Krishna J Palemar inaugurated the drive by planting a sapling on the maidan. Deputy speaker of assembly Yogish Bhat, ZP president Shailaja R Bhat, deputy commissioner Dr Channappa Gowda and deputy mayor Geeta Nayak too planted a sapling each on the occasion.
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Later, a stage programme was held in the town hall. Students from Roshni Nilaya performed a street play. Palemar inaugurated the programme by lighting the traditional lamp.

MCC commissioner Dr Vijaya Prakash welcomed the gathering. O Palayya, assistant officer of forest department, in his introductory speech, revealed that the forest department had a plan of planting 4 lakh saplings in the state this year. Farmers who are interested in planting new saplings can apply to the forest department and if the farmers continuously take care of the plants for 3 years they will get Rs 145 per each tree.

Palemar in his inaugural speech said that the present generation was aware of the importance of trees. "By planting trees, we can reduce noise pollution. It helps to produce oxygen and store carbon. It cleans the air and gives shade and cools," he said.

Further he said, "We must give importance to cleanliness. Dakshina Kannada is known for its greenery. If we give attention and take care of cleanliness, we will stand number one in the world. Planting trees in the city helps temper the heat of summer on the torrid pavements and it gives beauty to the streets."

He also said that the government would give more importance in creating parks in the city and one special park would be built and the work was in progress. He also said that 4 lakh Kandla trees would be planted in the state because Kandla trees were fewer here.

Prizes were distributed to the students. City police commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh and deputy director of public instruction Moses Jayashekar were also present on the occasion.
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Mangalore Jul 11 (2:00 P.m): The state department of forests, in association with the Mangalore City Corporation and public education board held the Green Mangalore Drive on the Nehru Maidan grounds here on Monday, July 11.

Minister in charge of the district Krishna J Palemar inaugurated the drive by planting a sapling on the maidan. Deputy speaker of assembly Yogish Bhat, ZP president Shailaja R Bhat, deputy commissioner Dr Channappa Gowda and deputy mayor Geeta Nayak too planted a sapling each on the occasion.
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Later, a stage programme was held in the town hall. Students from Roshni Nilaya performed a street play. Palemar inaugurated the programme by lighting the traditional lamp.

MCC commissioner Dr Vijaya Prakash welcomed the gathering. O Palayya, assistant officer of forest department, in his introductory speech, revealed that the forest department had a plan of planting 4 lakh saplings in the state this year. Farmers who are interested in planting new saplings can apply to the forest department and if the farmers continuously take care of the plants for 3 years they will get Rs 145 per each tree.

Palemar in his inaugural speech said that the present generation was aware of the importance of trees. "By planting trees, we can reduce noise pollution. It helps to produce oxygen and store carbon. It cleans the air and gives shade and cools," he said.

Further he said, "We must give importance to cleanliness. Dakshina Kannada is known for its greenery. If we give attention and take care of cleanliness, we will stand number one in the world. Planting trees in the city helps temper the heat of summer on the torrid pavements and it gives beauty to the streets."

He also said that the government would give more importance in creating parks in the city and one special park would be built and the work was in progress. He also said that 4 lakh Kandla trees would be planted in the state because Kandla trees were fewer here.

Prizes were distributed to the students. City police commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh and deputy director of public instruction Moses Jayashekar were also present on the occasion.
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Mangalore, Jul 11: For his age, Tulu writer and folklore scholar Palthady Ramakrishna Achar, president of the Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy, is remarkably active.

In spite of his slight indisposition the other day, Saturday, July 9, Achar spoke at length on many matters concerning the Academy and also its activities, from his home in Puttur.

The Academy was set up in 1994, largely through the good offices of Marpady Veerappa Moily, who was the chief minister of Karnataka then. Prof B A Viveka Rai served as the first president, while Achar was the registrar. Then followed the tenures of A Balakrishna Shetty Polali, Dr Vamana Nandavara and Seetaram Kulal, heading the organization. Achar's tenure is scheduled to end within a year.

The Academy has had its office in the Mangalore City Corporation office in Lal Bagh. The Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy too has its office at next door. During mayor Divakar's time, when the proposal for building the Ranga Mandira near the Kadri park was in full steam, the original plan was to accommodate the two academies there. Since nothing has happened since then, the Tulu Academy revived its ambitious plan to have its own premises.

A 50-cents plot next to Infosys Mangala and the Ganapati temple, between Urwa Stores and Kottara Chowki, had been earmarked for the Tulu Academy building. It was Achar who sought the help of tahsildar and other officials in sorting out matters relating to ownership, identification of exact boundary lines, RTC and the like. If it were to be left on its own, it could perhaps have been encroached upon by now.

A plan had been submitted by erstwhile president Kulal for a bulding at a cost of Rs 2.46 crore. Now, given the pressure of traffic and paucity of parking place on the sides of the road, it has been revised to allow vehicle parking on the ground floor of the premises, with office and auditorium on other floors above.

The new budgeted outlay is Rs 4.8 crore, out of which, Rs 2 crore have just been approved, but yet to be received. He recalled with gratitude the role played by the deputy secretary in the Kannada and culture department, minister Shobha Karandlaje, MLC Bharati Shetty and a few others in facilitating the matter.

Achar is very keen on completing the project solely with the help of government funding, not depending on private organizations or philanthopists to pick up the tab.

During his tenure, Achar had four programmes on the agenda. The Tulu Sammelana held in Ujire in 2009 with the active support of Dharmadhikari Dr Veerendra Heggade of Dharmasthala was his dream come true. Secondly, the introduction of Tulu in the schools syllabus is also coming into effect.

But he says with a tinge of bitterness that many parents had not been taking interest in encouraging their children to take Tulu as a subject. Even on the subject of distributing textbooks, one or two officials of the department of public instruction had been uncooperative, he said.

The third is to take the project of Tulu Bhavana as forward as possible during his tenure. And the last but not the least is the inclusion of Tulu in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, which perhaps requires a concerted effort and political will on the part of elected representatives, community leaders and others.

It's time everyone acted together and achieve the goals.
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MANGALORE: Comedians of early radios in United States of America would have forgotten among the Americans, but Philatelist Kumbla Radhakrishna brought them live through his collection of metallic commemorative postage stamps.At a monthly meeting of Dakshina Kannada Philatelic and Numismatic Association here on Sunday, Radhakrishna exhibited his collections of stamps and coins. At the expo, a post cover, including metallic stamps issued by the USA in commemoration of its radio comedians Begen and McCarthy, was the crowd puller. Radhakrishna also exhibited variety of metallic stamps of Tonga island (Kingdom of Tonga).Radhakrishna, who is the officerincharge of Corporation Bank's heritage museum in Manipal, is proud owner of commemorative stamps issued by the USA on Mahatma Gandhi titled as Champion of Liberty on January 26, 1961.Explaining that his hobby made him to be a happiest man, Radhakrishna said he is also involved in exchanging his collections following barter system.Being a person involved in setting up of museum of Reserve Bank of India, he said that he was less interested in collecting stamps, but major focus was on collecting coins. Explaining that his mentor and spiritual guru in Ramachandra Mission CA Rajagopalachari made him to involve in such an unique hobby, he said such a hobby can keep a man happy.
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On Sunday, Mangalore’s Jawa and Yezdi Motorcycle Club celebrated the ninth international Jawa day. This day was made remarkable by the rally in which members of this club participated with their vintage bikes Jawa and Yezdi.

This club includes members like students, professors, IT professionals, doctors and engineers. This day was celebrated with bikes of the range 175, 250 and 350cc, which were sold in India from 1960 to 1996.

The members of the club owning Jawa and Yedi usually meet on Sundays of every month. However, on this huge event, it was observed that over 30 riders participated in this rally. The riders rode on their Yezdi and Jawa motorcycles roaring their revving motor cycle engines around the city. It was also noticed that riders from Udupi, Kundapur, Chikkamagalur also participated in the rally.

The funds have been collected by the club on this event for an animal trust. It was reported that around 400 Jawa and Yezdi bikes are present in Bangalore.

"These bikes made a mark in automotive history as exotic pieces of machinery and were known for their reliability and low-maintenance costs. They were last manufactured at the Ideal Jawa factory in Mysore before the company went bankrupt. But the few surviving bikes have been brought back to their former glory in the hands of passionate riders and mechanics," says Brian Ammanna, an enthusiast.
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JAIPUR: Manipal Group is in active talks with Gujarat and Orissa governments for setting up universities in these states. This is part of group's plan to have a footprint in all parts of the country. The chain plans to roll out five universities in next five years.

Manipal Group advisor – strategy and development – Sudhakar Rao told ET that all these universities would ideally come up across 200-300 acres each with a total investment of over Rs 6500 crores.

"We have identified Bangalore, Orissa, Gujarat, Haryana and National Capital Region (NCR) for the proposed universities. While land for Bangalore is finalised, we have initiated talks with Gujarat and Orissa governments for land and permissions. Other proposed universities are in conceptual stage," he said.


The Manipal group runs 200 courses including engineering, humanities, management, medicine and allied health sciences with four operational universities – Manipal University, Sikkim Manipal University, American University of Antigua and Manipal International University in Malaysia. Recently, the chain has launched its university in Jaipur which would be spread across 300 acres with an estimated investment of Rs 1200 crore over next five years.

The varied mix of students in its Manipal campus prompted the group to expand its network. It receives 30% students from north India, 40-45% from South while rest is from other parts of other country. The university now wants to reach out to students in their respective regions. As per group's plan, a university in Orissa will cater to the needs of students on eastern region, Gujarat university will cover the western region, Bangalore will absorb the spill over of southern region while NCR and Haryana universities will fulfill the educational needs of north and central regions.

"Each of these universities will be built to have 25,000 students on campus by its 10th year of operation. We also plan a university in Jharkhand. But it will come up in next phase," he said.

Apart from that the group also plans to have a national footprint in health care business. At present, it has 15 hospitals with 9000 beds – mostly in South India.

"We want to double the number of hospital in next five years spread across the country. Some of these will be medical colleges. For this we would take organic as well as inorganic route. We are in talks with various hospital groups for acquisition," said Abhay Jain, who heads the corporate affairs of Manipal Group.
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MANGALORE: The forest department has plans to launch a novel initiative, maguvigondu mara, shalegondu vana (a tree for a child and a forest for a school), aimed at making schools eco-friendly and to inspire children to be more responsible towards the environment.

Deputy conservator of forest O Palaiah said the department has already identified 40 schools in the district to introduce the programme on a pilot basis. Through the maguvigondu mara project, all students in the school will be given saplings, which they should plant on their premises. Students can choose the plant of their choice by filling the application forms, which will be supplied by the department through schools, he said addressing a Vanamahotsava programme organized by the department in association with the Mangalore City Corporation and the department of public instructions here on Monday.

The department has plans of developing forests in select schools through shalegondu vana programme. Teachers and students will plant saplings in schools, which have sufficient land, he said adding that a total of 12,000 saplings have already been kept ready for the purpose.

While 20 lakh saplings will be planted across the district in 2011-12 under the vanamahotsava programme, the department will also take initiatives to grow four lakh mangrove saplings in nurseries, which will be later planted on 40 hectares of land at various places in the district. A tree park resembling Cubbon Park of Bangalore, will be developed near Pilikula Nisargadhama, Palaiah said.
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Mangalore, July 11: Senior police officer D Dharmaiah has taken charge as new Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime and Traffic) of Mangalore City Police.

He was the DCP (VVIP security) in Bangalore City Police before transfer.

However, Mr Dharmaiah is not new to the coastal city, as he had served as the Deputy Superintendent of Police of Mangalore sub-division in erstwhile Dakshina Kannada District Police.

The post was vacant after his predecessor M Muthuraya, was given a new responsibility within the Commissionerate.
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Udupi, Jul 12: With the passage of time, the people of the coast seem to have forgotten the joy of celebrating different stages of agricultural activities. The scene at the villages, which used to be abuzz with agricultural activities, with enthusiastic agriculturists getting busy with their activities with smiling faces, have paved way for a sleepy, disinterested environment. With the passage of years, agricultural land is becoming scarce, as residences and commercial buildings come up on them. In due course, it may be hard to find farm land in the district, elders apprehend.
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Even the few who continue to engage in agricultural activities, have let go of the age old customs, which used to bring an environment of joy and celebration in families. In the past, the last day of ploughing of the field with pairs of bullocks or buffalos, was celebrated as ‘Hadna’, in which the animals were fed with green grass and other fodder dear to them, as a means of thanking them for their services. The first day of planting of seedlings, known as ‘Natti’ in local parlance, by a family, was known as ‘Ganapati Natti’ or initiation of planting. On that day, people used to pay obeisance to Lord Ganapati, and distribute Prasadam along with steamed and salted green gram, Bengal gram etc to the agricultural labourers as a method of celebration. In some cases, puffed rice mixed with jaggery and grated coconut were served to farmhands. The families also shared a feast cooked by them with the labourers at the end of the planting season. Among the few who continue to practice these customs, the steamed corn has been replaced with sweets bought from shops.

Of late, it has become rarer to see buffalo pairs in villages, even though some rich people continue to groom buffalos purely for Kambala purposes. Because of exorbitant wages and shortage of farmhands, people are resorting to tillers and tractors. The village songs sung by female labourers in unison, which used to reverberate through the fields, have been replaced by the roar of engines. There have also been cases in which planting is also done with the help of machinery. Sadly, without getting noticed, age old practices are being given a go by.

In the past, agricultural activities were marked by religious fervour and divinity. At each conceivable opportunity, prayers were offered to divine powers, and at the time of harvesting too, gods were remembered and puja was offered, before cutting the paddy plants.

The planting of seedings in traditional way by 40 farmhands in the paddy field of Suresh Shetty in the neighbourhood of Altaru in Yadtady village as depicted in the accompanying photograph, brings back the fond memories of the past. One finds solace in the belief that at least some families in the coast will continue to carry on the rich traditions and hand them over to the next generations.
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Mangalore, Jul 13: Deputy Commissioner (DC) and district magistrate Dr N S Channappa Gowda has issued an order banning the use of plastic at Panambur and Tannirbavi beaches.

The DC in his order stated that people who visit the beaches throw plastic materials like polythene bags, cups, tumblers etc which not only cause pollution but also spoil the beauty of the beaches. Plastics pose a threat to health as well as to environment and thus will be banned, he stated.

The ban will come into effect from Friday July 15.

DC Dr Chennappa also advised the city police commissioner, regional environment officer and assistant director of district tourism department to strictly implement the ban.\
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Mangalore, 14 July 2011: Dakshina Kannada is a land with several religious and social practices which is also known for the culinary delicacies.

Aati is one such time of the year when nature is at its best. The produce available from nature gets transformed into tasty titbits for the monsoon in almost every kitchen. All those irrespective of whether they are in villages or cities, long for those ‘wonderful gifts of the nature’ from the fields and in the forests.

Come monsoon and people throng to Central market and Car street region to get the locally available bamboo shoots (kanile), colocasia leaves (Kesu), Marakesu, Ambate (hog plums), blue berry (nerale hannu), jackfruit seeds, mushroom, turmeric leaves and so on.

With the commencement of monsoon, the forests on the foothills of Western Ghats get filled with the typical odour of bamboo shoots. For those in the rural areas, bamboo shoots curry is a main item in the daily menu during monsoon. They prepare mouth-watering delicacies out of this tender bamboo and serve them with lunch.

“We prepare a number of items using bamboo shoots. They vary from sambar to pickle to kadubu. Kanile pickle is the favourite of all my family members,” said Savitha, who was purchasing bamboo shoots in the market.

The kanile is sold at Rs 30 per kg in the market. As bamboo shoots are available only for two months during monsoon, there is a great demand for it, said Dinesh, a trader. There was a demand for bamboo shoots in the market on Monday being Prathama Ekadashi. Normally on this day, Konkani speaking people use bamboo shoots for one of their dishes.

The city vendors get bamboo shoots from various places. Few get it from Chikmagalur, while some other vendors in the Central market said they got them from Bantwal and Sullia. Though cutting bamboo shoots for commercial purpose is an offense according to the Forest department, bamboo shoots are inevitable part of our rural kitchen for centuries.

“A bunch of marakesu is available for Rs 10 in the market. Many a times we are not able to supply the demand for marakesu and bamboo shoots,” said another trader. Hog plums or ambate too are available in the market during rainy season.

Normally, they are used in chutney or pickles. Kesu leaves (colocasia leaves) are used for Pathrode. The Kesu leaves are sold out in the morning itself, as women come in the morning to purchase it. Though there is a great demand for mushrooms, it is short of supply. People come and ask us daily for mushroom, says another trader. Then there is a demand for ‘Thojank’ or ‘Chagate soppu’ which grows only during monsoon. “I get around 40 to 50 bunches ‘Thojank’ from my native in Bantwal. Within no time, they are sold,” said a woman
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Mangalore, Jul 14: Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister, Krishna J Palemar, informed that five new police stations will be set up in the district soon. He said that apart from two traffic police stations in Suratkal and Ullal, three police stations will start functioning in Kaikamba, Jeppu and Mangalore South.

Speaking to reporters at the public health centre in Suratkal on Wednesday July 14, Palemar informed that a new building for the city-based commissionerate will come up at a cost of Rs 3.5 crore. “Sanction has been received for providing ten Tavera vehicles, seven Sumo vehicles, seven Bolero, five cars, 40 motor bikes and a staff strength of 450, to the commissionerate. Out of this, 200 personnel have been posted, and the balance 250 will be appointed soon. Panambur police station is also set to get a new building shortly,” he added.

He said that closed circuit cameras are being fitted in high density population regions of the district apart from major bus stops. He revealed that the city corporation has set aside five crore rupees for implementing this plan within the city limits, and that police department will also be setting up closed circuit cameras in Puttur, Sullia, Beltangady, and Moodbidri, duly expressing the hope that this will help the police department to bring down the crime rate.
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Mangalore, Jul 14: For our team, it was like killing two birds with a single stone.

The original idea was to cover the Maroli flyover and related problems. On the way back, heading towards Bendur, our correspondents literally got stuck with another problem in front of the Shiva Bagh entrance and the Kanara Club at Kadri.
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The dual road between Vas Bakery circle up to Dolphin Restaurant was laid some time ago but part of the eastern side was yet to be concreted.

Over the past three or four days, the west-side lane adjacent on the Ballal Motors and PWD inspection bungalow had been closed from Ballal Motors up to the Kanara club and Shiva Bagh entrances. Buses arriving from Udupi via Nantoor and hundreds of other vehicles approaching Bendur have been forced to move at a snail's pace.

Enquiries revealed that the problem was to prolong over the coming 20 days - the curing period required for the repaired concrete lane.

That was an issue worth covering and writing about, thought our team. As they spoke to motorists and road-users about the problems there, word went around. MCC staff, corporators and others landed immediately. People in the right places were worried about the wrong publicity.

One of our correspondents spoke to mayor Praveen himself. He immediately issued a lightning order to have the traffic to go on a one-way system.

The traffic from Bendur towards Kadri and Nantoor will move on a one-way direction from Vas Bakery near St Agnes to the left, passing by Maurishka Towers, Bharat depot and Dr Shankar's clinic to the Mallikatta circle and then take right to Kadri.

Only the vehicles from Nantoor, Kadri and Shiva Bagh direction will move by the side of Rainbow Restaurant and Smokie towards Bendur and other places.

That is the power of the media. The public, mainly the motorists, suffered in silence, without knowing what to do or how to go about it. There was instant relief, just with a call from our correspondent.
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Auto-rickshaw drivers demand fare revision, new subsidies in Mangalore

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MANGALORE: Post June 25 hike in diesel prices, KSRTC hiked fares of various bus services by 6.95% on an average. While this move left commuters seeing red, this was not the case for passengers who use the Red Volvo city service operated by Mangalore division of KSRTC to two destinations, Manipal and Kasargod. Their blushes were spared as fares for Volvo services remained unchanged.

KSRTC head office in Bangalore rather than looking strictly at the bottomline of this popular service, deemed it prudent to focus on increasing occupancy by maintaining status quo on the existing fare. While a trip from Mangalore to Manipal on this Volvo city service is priced at Rs 65, it is Rs 60 each to Udupi and Kasargod respectively. As per Volvo city service chart rates, the fare to the two destinations should be around Rs 95 to Rs 100.

Last time KSRTC raised fare of city Volvo services was in June 2010 when it went up by Rs 5. Incidentally, this is the only increase in fare that this service has seen since it was launched simultaneously by district in-charge ministers of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts V S Acharya at Manipal, and J Krishna Palemar at SBI main branch terminus here on March 27, 2010. City Volvo service fare to Manipal from Mangalore was Rs 60 on its introduction.

A senior KSRTC official told TOI that the corporation could have looked at managing the bottomline either by increasing fare, which would have hit occupancy, or by maintaining status quo on fare and increase occupancy. "We chose to do the latter. The whole idea was to make the city service more attractive to people. Its main patrons are doctors and professionals who commute to and from Manipal daily," the official noted.

Observing that commuters prefer the Volvo city service for the pleasant travelling experience it provides, Yashwanth, in-charge divisional controller of Mangalore division said the low floor buses, which feature syncromesh gear and electronic control systems offer a smooth riding experience. While the operation of this service is on a break-even basis, not revising the fare is more to do with generating goodwill with commuters and to increase market share.

Canara Bus Operators Association (CBOA) that offers competition to KSRTC city Volvo on Udupi-Manipal sector however indicated that fares on its Canara Combine Transport, which offers concessions to daily commuters could go up if RTA approves its request for hike in fare. K Rajavarma Ballal, president, CBOA said revised fares on CCT buses would be pegged at 50% of fare approved by the RTA. Fare hike even for CCT is inevitable, he said
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Wonderful picture this place is called as Ullal Jetty during my PU days i used to visit here, IN The background we can see Railway, Highway bridge across river netravati,
We can have a beautiful view of many building in the city from here, Its a delight for City lovers like me

Mangalore, Jul 15: Father Muller Homoeopathic Medical College (FMHMC) in collaboration with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai inaugurated a Research Project on ‘Demonstration of action of Homoeopathic Medicines using Medical Analyzer’ at the College Auditorium on Tuesday July 12.This is a fundamental research in collaboration with BARC Scientists. Fr Muller Homoeopathic Medical College (FMHMC) is the first private Homoeopathic Medical College in the country to get this grant.

The ‘Research Project’ is funded by the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences. This research is undertaken to validate the scientificity of Homoeopathy.

Dr B. Sanjeev Rai, Chief of Medical Services, FMCI was the Chief Guest of the occasion.

Principal, Father Muller Homoeopathic Medical College Dr Srinath Rao, Senior Scientist at BARC Dr G D Jindal and Vice Dean of Kshema Dr Sathish Bhandary, administrator Fr Wilfred Prakash D'Souza, Co-investigators of the project Dr Prasanna Kumar and Dr Sajan K R, Dr Shivaprasad K and Senior Researcher Dr Vivek Shakthidharan were the other dignitories present.
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Despite several hurdles in their manufacture, Mangalore tile roofs are amongst the most eco-friendly
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If we were asked to sketch a house when we were young, we typically would have drawn one up with sloping roofs. If it's in South India, one may safely assume, the roof is imagined to be in Mangalore tiles. The choreography of red-tiled roofs partly covered by the lush green canopy of trees in Kerala and Karnataka or the villages in flat lands of Tamil Nadu and Andhra creating a new skyline are etched in the memories of every traveller.

This essay could have as well begun asking where were Mangalore tiles first made and without winking the eyes, the answer would have been ‘Mangalore', a coastal town in Karnataka! Even before the missionaries of Bassel Mission from Switzerland landed in coastal Karnataka during the 18th century, rounded roof tiles, now called as country tiles, were popular all over the south. Produced in most villages, these were hand made, had no interlocking facility, and were more prone for cracks.

NEW CONCEPT

The Missionaries now settled at Mangalore introduced the concept of clay tiles which are flat, grooved, interlocking, and also ensured they are mechanically pressed for greater strength and durability. By the early 19th century there were numerous factories along the seaside stretching from Kundapur to Kollam, producing these tiles.

Tiled roofs are part of building with clay, possibly amongst the most sustainable construction systems. They create an induced passive cooling, wherein the tiles and the air underneath get heated up and the hot air is allowed to escape outside in the gaps of the tiled roofs. This ensures cooler air from the floor level rises up. The secret behind the thermal comforts of traditional tiled homes lie in this natural air draft, besides the soft light they let in through the tile gaps. There are minimum windows to ensure least heat gain and glare-free living. Of course, higher the roof height, the greater the benefits.

Incidentally, much of the tiled roof we see in large cities may not be actual tiled roofs! There is a trend of topping the concrete roof with tiles, often popularised by house builders. People believe this would eliminate the possibility of theft by removing tiles and stop all water leakage but still ensures that ethnic Mangalore tile look from outside. It's comparable to providing one roof type over another roof type! We are employing two independent roofs together; hence the costs are high. The tiles are pasted upon thick mortar, hence heat transfer increases and replacing a broken tile is very difficult.

Irrespective of how the tiles are used – as original roof or cladding – Mangalore tiles are among the cultural preferences of many communities. Despite the onslaught of newer technologies, dwindling manual labour and depleting soil resources, we find tile roofs among the most eco-friendly ideas. It is good to see their continued popularity and revival by architects even in cities like Bangalore. As such, it is important now to focus on how to design with tiles.
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Udupi, Jul 15: Suralu Palace, with a history of over five centuries, is 28 km away from the city. It’s a distinct palace in terms of construction, ‘vaastu’ and other aspects. It lies on a plot of one acre and dates back to the 15th century, and is completely built from the earth.

Splendour of Place:

If one turns the pages of history of coastal Karnataka, the erstwhile Tulunadu, it was a time when the Jain dynasties thrived; Pandyas in Barkoor, Bhairavas in Karkala, Chowtas in Moodbidri, Ajilas in Aladangady, Bagarasas in Beltangady, Samantas in Mulky, and the Tolahas are significant among the 12 Jain kings. Suralu was the capital of the Tolaha dynasty and the palace was built by the Tolaha dynasty in 1511 AD. Tolaha’s kingdom extended to Suralu, Shiriyara, Nalavattanadu, Kelanadu, Shankaranarayana, Basroor, Halligeri and Byndoor.http://www.daijiworld.com/images1/veek_150711_suralu1.jpg
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Suralu place has the blend of Vastu derived from Hindu – Jain cultural hierarchy. It also depicts the regional sculptures and vaastu of that era. It was built using earth and timber. It’s a testimony for the skills of the ancient people as the structure has been built without a foundation except at the front portion.

The walls are built of clay and country tiles cover the roof-top while there are sculptures on doors, windowsills, pillars, and the ceiling. The only addition of a modern floor was done in the front portion of the palace during the reign of Koosammadevi Tolaharti in 1858. The palace has eight spacious blocks including a worship centre for Goddess Padmavati while other worship centres of Lord Ganapati, Durgaparameshwari, and Gopalakrishna, are located on the outer wing.

Mute spectator:

The palace, built of clay, that has survived five centuries, has great significance to coastal Karnataka more than the Tolaha dynasty. The palace that survived the rule of the dynasties of Vijayanagar and Keladi, Portuguese and British rulers, Mysore rulers Hyder and Tippu Sultan, the Mumbai province, the freedom struggle and post Independence era, now lies orphaned.

The palace that thrived in the past, now lies in a deplorable condition. The roof top, wooden beams and ceilings, walls, and staircases are crumbling. The kitchen and the queen’s bedroom are already in shambles.

The Jain kings ruled erstwhile Tulunadu over the past many centuries. Among the 12 palaces built by them, Suralu palace has survived the test of time so far. Its distinct local artwork of that era is indeed rare to find. It lies in a deplorable condition and if early measures are not taken to restore it to its former glory; it will wither away in a few years especially in the monsoon season.

Despite many people and office-bearers of social welfare organizations in the neighbourhood presenting memorandum to the district administration urging restoration of Suralu palace that is of archaeological importance to its former glory, their efforts were in vain.

The Archaeological Survey of India released Rs 60 lac in 1993 to begin the restoration work that had gone on up to 2000, but it proved shoddy and further caused damage to the historical structure. If the palace is restored, the new generation would get an opportunity to unravel history.

“We have information that the Archaeological Survey of India has released Rs 1.6 crore for restoration of Suralu palace. It would expedite the restoration work,” said Sudarshan Shetty, managing trustee of Suralu palace.
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Auto-rickshaw drivers demand fare revision, new subsidies in Mangalore

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High time Mangalore had CNG autos like those in Delhi and Gujarat.

Akshatha M

Monsooned Malabar!

The name might be quite unfamiliar to the Indians, but it is a popular brand among the people in Scandinavian countries. Mangaloreans might know a little about this coffee variety which is exclusively produced in the coastal belt, but it has gained all name and fame in the foreign nations as it is the most sought out coffee variety of the coffee lovers in Europe.

The coffee variety is called Monsooned Malabar for it is produced in the Malabar region during the rainy season. The Arabica coffee beans are processed in a different way making Monsooned Malabar unique. The dry coffee beans are exposed to the wet monsoon season and are swollen which adds a special flavour and taste to the coffee.

The coffee beans are exposed to the monsoon weather for a period of 15 days to one month which makes the beans to lose their original acidity giving the taste of sweet syrup.

Fascinating history

The story that led to the production of the Monsooned Malabar is very fascinating. During the British rule, coffee beans were exported from the coastal belt to the European nations via sea. The humidity and the sea winds during the voyage automatically led the coffee beans to swell and ripe changing the colour of the beans from green to pale yellow.

As the years passed, with the modernisation and the speedy voyage, it took less number of days to reach Europe. The less number of voyage days meant, less exposure of the coffee beans to the wind and humidity which stopped the coffee beans from undergoing ripening process. Unaware of the reason behind it, the British men however felt that the taste of the coffee was no more the same. It was then they realised why the coffee tasted better earlier.

To meet the demand, there started the production of Monsooned Malabar by exposing the beans to the rains of Malabar Coast. Thus emerged the new variety of coffee called the Monsooned Malabar.

Largest manufacturer

Though there are a few companies who produce Monsooned Malabar in some of the small godowns in Mangalore, the credit goes to Aspinwall & Co Ltd in Kulshekhara for being the largest manufacturer of this coffee variety in India. Deputy General Manager of the Company Shekhar Poojari informed that the Company that started producing Monosooned Malabar as early as in 1970s, began producing the coffee in a large quantity after the liberalisation policy in 1991.

“The coffee produced here is exported to the nations like Italy, Germany and Sweden as there is increased demand for Monsooned Malabar in those countries. It has no potentiality in Indian market as the people here find the coffee sweet and light because they mix the coffee powder with milk unlike the Europeans who drink black coffee,” he said speaking to City Herald.

The process

The production of Monsooned Malabar is limited to a period of five months from June to October during when the coastal region witnesses monsoon. The lengthy process includes the spreading of the coffee beans over the floor in the large godowns with enough exposure to wind. The beans are shuffled every alternate day and the process is called as ‘Riking’.

After exposing them for 15 days, the beans are piled up in gunny bags in a systematic way. If the coffee is swollen well, then the beans rip off the gunnies and ooze out. If at all they do not swell, then the stocked beans should be spread over the floor again. And the process should be repeated till the beans are actually ready for polishing.

After the beans are separated and polished, they are ready to be exported.
Considering the uniqueness of this coffee variety, the Coffee Board has also granted Geographical Indication protection to Monsooned Malabar. Shekhar Poojari informed that the decrease in the rainfall lengthens the processing procedure which is quite evident this year.

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There are very few places where river meets river or river meeting sea.
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However, there is one such place in Mangalore itself, where two rivers (Nethravathi and Gurpur) meet the mighty Arabian sea.

Though the colour of water usually looks blue (of course water is colourless) in river or sea (light green in some regions), here the colour of water is dark brown, especially at this point (estury - Bengre) where the river water enters the sea. Swimming in the region is 100 per cent dangerous as there is strong under current in the region.

Though one can get a panoramic view from Bengre — Mangalore city on one side, Ullal railway bridge on the other side and remains of breakwater and the mighty Arabian sea on yet other side, the beach is dirty most of the time. In fact, the peculiar problem being faced by the residents of Bengre is filth. All the waste including a large amount of plastic, coconut shells and wooden pieces that flow out of Mangalore joins River Nethravathi or River Gurupur. Though the rivers join the sea, all the waste and filth is accumulated on the shores of Bengre making it a ‘default dumpyard.’

Interestingly, besides a large number of cattle and dogs, one can also find a good number of peacocks and peahens. According to localites, there are quite a few snakes and porcupines too in the thick bushes in the region.According to a localite, a large area in Bengre has been swallowed by the sea over the years. The advancement of sea stopped after huge boulders were dumped to prevent sea erosion when Janardhan Poojary was the Union minister two decades ago.

100 year old settlers


When the Britishers decided to set up a Goods Shed in Mangalore more than 100 years ago, the residents were evacuated and most of them settled in Bengre — which is surrounded by water in t hree sides.

Unlike any other ward in Mangalore City Corporation, Bengre — the last ward in Mangalore City Corporation, has only two areas, namely Thota Bengre and Kasaba Bengre. In Kasaba Bengre, there are over 1,000 families and all belong to Muslim community. On the other hand, there are nearly 900 families in Thota Bengre and almost all are Hindus except a microscopic minority, that include a few Christian families and one family belonging to Scheduled Caste in the entire Bengre.

Tourism potential

A large number of tourists visit Panambur beach.

At the same time, a good number of people visit Tannirbavi (near Port guest house as well as near the Den Den ship which sank). But very few or nobody visits the end point, either due to the distance or perhaps due to filth. But there is ample space in Bengre to develop tourism.

“A little interest by the persons concerned may convert the serene and picturesque Bengre into a tourist hotspot,” opines a resident.

How to reach

If you are going by vehicle, take left after Kuloor bridge and drive for 10 kms untill the road ends (about 6 - 7 kms from Tannirbavi beach). Just 300 metres before the road ends, park your vehicle and walk towards your right.

If you prefer to go by boat, take a boat (Rs 4 for one-way) at Old Port to Thota Bengre and walk to the estury.

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repetation

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Padubidri, Jul 21: The 24-hour bandh called for by those likely to be affected by the proposed broadening of NH 66 along the Padubidri town on Wednesday July 20 was effective. Shops, geneal and fish markets and establishments remained closed.

The affected parties took out a rally to local bus-stand, followed by a public meeting.

Leading the agitation, Y Sukumar Shetty addressed the protesters and said that from this proposed road-widening project, a number of houses, shops, hotels and commercial buildings were affected.
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Further he said that agitation committee would not allow widening and fight to protect the Padubidri town at any cost. The bypass project had been approved by the union government long back and subsequently by the state government. It is only now being delayed because of objections from certain vested interests and influential persons, who want the present road to be widened, he said.

Dr Y N Shetty, Dr N T Anchan, Vishukumar Shetty, Gopal Shetty, Santosh Shetty and Prakash Shetty among others were present.
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Mangalore, July 21: Banks in Dakshina Kannada district have crossed business level of Rs 25,885 crore as on March 2011. This level of business is achieved by 427 bank branches in the district which includes deposits of Rs 16,472 crore and advances of Rs 9,413 crore said JS Shenoy, Deputy General Manager, Syndicate Bank.

He was speaking at a meeting held at Taluk Panchayat here on Thursday to review the performance of the lead banks in the implementation of Credit Plan and government sponsored schemes in the Dakshina Kannada District.

Mr Shenoy said the credit deposit ratio of the district is 57 as at March 2011. There is increase in deposit by 14% and advances by 15% on year-on-year basis, he said.

As part of government of India direction 213 villages should be selected for providing banking business through business correspondents in the district through Technical Service Provider. Of these, 32 villages were already covered by bank branches, said Mr Shenoy adding that the villagers will be provided with a bio-metric card which identifies the thumb impression. He said, “This helps operation of SB accounts for receiving money under Pension schemes and wage payment under MGNREGP by the villagers without going to branches”

He said as per the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) directions, Financial Literacy and Credit Counselling Centre has been opened in the district which will take responsibility of educating the people in rural areas on various aspects of banking activities.

Mangalore MLA U T Khader raised voice against the hurdles faced by the students to get education loans from the banks. Responding to his claim, M S Hasan, LDO from RBI said that those students, who have faced misbehavior and problems by the banks, should report it Lead Bank Manager of the District.

Mr Hasan clarified no collateral surety is need for education loan up to Rs 4 lakh and urged the officials to abide by the rules.

Hemanth Bhide, Lead District Chief Manager, Syndicate bank, Executives and District Coordinators from Banks took part in the meeting.
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Toll Gate Jagruthi Abhiyan flagged off by Ramanath Rai (http://www.dakshintimes.com/dakshina-kannada/bantwal/news/11072930894/toll-gate-jagruthi-abhiyan-flagged-ramanath-rai.html)

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Mangalore, Jul 22: A primary school in Nagori, ‘Hindu Higher Primary School’, which has existed since 90 years lost almost all its pupils over this summer holidays and just 30 students remain in classes from 1 to 7, with worried parents opting to send them to alternative schools in Capitanio and Balmatta among leading the school to closure. This school is located in the midst of green landscape near Nagori.

The government order deems that schools which have less than 100 students, be closed. This ‘two teacher’ school continued to function as teacher Sushila with her 34 years of teaching service in the school did not want to close this school as at least 30 students study here and she had an emotional bond with this ‘poor’ school. Speaking to Daijiworld, she said that with the help of donors all programmes like ‘Prathibha Karanji’, and school day celebrations were conducted though this school was lacking basic facilities. Now, she has applied for VRS and will be relieved from service at the end of this month.
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She recalls that at one time, there were about 16 teachers in this school and after they retired no new teachers were recruited. In 2006, there were at least 150 children studying here. With the school building being ruined every year, no repair was done. With the number of pupils going below 100, the concerned officers sent a memo saying that the school cannot be continued.

This private school was looked after by one Vidyasagar, under Gayathri Venkatesha Vidyavardhaka Sangha. With the students’ number going down, the school building was rented out to a family from Surathkal last month. When asked the reason for letting out the school building for rent, Vidyasagar said that most of the school documents are still inside the school. “If a watchman is employed, he has to be paid a salary, and instead this family was given shelter”, he said.

With this move, people in the area are disappointed that their dear school which existed since 90 years has no future.
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Mangalore, Jul 22: This city has survived on private initiatives, education, health, transport and what not. Now the Mangalore City Corporation is toying with the idea of privatization of drinking water, which has been seen as a step too radical and cry too far!

There is nothing on the record books of the Mangalore City Corporation that indicates it will go for privitisation of water distribution, It was once discussed in the monthly general meeting council in May at the height of summer. None of the corporators know the full details of the privitisation of water distribution, but yet majority of them have said yes to the proposition.
The city has only one domestic water distribution facility that is at Thumbe about 19 kilometers from the city. It is an augmented water facility which was designed for the population in 1982 but eversince that nobody has taken the trouble to upgrade it to a new facility keeping in view the need of the future. But in 2001 when Shashidhar Hegde became the Mayor of the city he started rolling the ball of upgrading the facility into a full fledged augmented water distribution facility for the city.

Much water has flown in the Nethravati since then but the second dam has become a non starter despite the state government promising Rs. 40 crores for the proposed dam in 2005. But since then the inflation has multiplied by at least three times taking the total cost of the project to Rs. 120 crores which is too hefty a sum to raise from Mangalore says an official of the Corporation.

The Mangalore City Corporation is now preparing grounds to hand over the public water distribution network to the private enterprises from Mumbai to provide 24X7 water supply to every house hold in Mangalore with an expansion vision document ‘perspective 2026’. Two companies from Mumbai Crysal solutions and Shah Consultancy Company have come up with a plan to streamline the water distribution in the city which is marked as a future engine of growth in Karnataka after Bangalore.
The project report made available exclusively for Mangalorean.com states that the complete management of the water distribution at a cost of Rs. 143 crores, which includes laying of supply pipes in the areas that do not have filtered water, metering the new lines and some old lines that have not been metered, all these works will be taken up by the company that takes up the onus of providing water.

The financial module that has been worked out by the Mangalore City Corporation has worked out for this ambitious project included mutual sharing of the cost of construction. But the most suited to the Mangalore city corporation and the participating companies was the model that demands investment of Rs. 96 crores by the Central government. Rs.2.5 crores from Mangalore City Corporation and Rs. 113 crores from the participating companies, which has been more or less agreed upon by the civic leaders without taking a referendum on the issue as every citizen of the city was a stake holder in the project.

The privitisation of water supply system will definitely jack up the water tariff in the city, those who have been paying Rs. 100-150 per month may have to shell down Rs. 250-300. But the companies will ensure that the tap in every street corner, every house will not go dry even for a minute.
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Mangalore, Jul 21: It may not be astonishing to come across youngsters who invent new things on their own. But here’s an invention by 28-year-old Krishna Kumar which can be termed ‘innovative’ and ‘unique’.

The Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera named Cu327 (chemical name of copper and melting point of lead) measuring just 56X35 mm has been created manually by Krishna.
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Krishna, who hails from Kasargod, is a graphic designer by profession and worked for five years at Rahul Advertisers in the city. The camera is the result of hard work and efforts put in by him during his spare time for over six years.

The camera was developed out of his profound interest in photography. As a boy, Krishna had been interested in electronic items, art and photography. Using his wild imagination, he converted a capacitor into lens, later creating the body.

The camera made mainly out of copper includes a shutter, viewfinder, flip mirror, film cartridge carrier, film advanced liver, lens that can focus along with aperture and two extensional lenses mainly suited for macro photography.

Initially Kumar had created a simple compact camera measuring 28X20 mm. But due to poor performance by the camera, he moved on to build yet another camera measuring 38X22 mm. The improved version too failed to satisfy his expectations. Thus he created the 56X33 mm SLR camera which mainly is used for black and white macro photography.

The camera has about 65 handmade parts, barring the screw, gear and spring. The parts are very tiny and complicated. The lens hood is made out of PVC pipe and the aperture consists of four blades, 3 f points, f points are approximately 10, 6, 4. The blade is made out of an unexposed x ray sheet.

While the camera seems to be almost perfect, Kumar says that one has to load the film strip in a dark room and take pictures. While the indoor pictures are almost perfect, the outdoor pictures get over-exposed, he added.

The chemicals and films are imported from the US as they are not available in India.

Krishna did his schooling at Kumbla Higher Secondary School and completed his graduation in B Sc from Mangalore University. He is the only son of Kamalakshi and Late M Babu.

Krishna plans to enter his creation into the Guiness Book of World Records. At present, the Rollei, built in 1962 holds the record of being the smallest fully operational standard film cameras using 35 mm film roll.
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Mangalore tile roofs are eco-friendly and amply prove their durability and ease of installation. A look by our eco-friendly architect
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Mangalore tile roofs have often suffered for no mistakes of their own. Of course they are fragile, demanding careful handling; the bottom surface attracts salt deposit and there could be more cobwebs! However, the decreasing popularity is also a result of our generation forgetting how to build with tiles. Innumerable mistakes have been committed by us in design and construction, especially in areas such as roof angles, support members, corner junctions or managing rainwater. It's but natural that people have lost faith in the system itself. Additionally, alternative roofing ideas with ample flexibility, security and availability have marginalised the tiled shelters.

Labour intensive

Being labour intensive and based on local resources, the fact that tiled roofs are eco-friendly goes without debate. Millions of such roofs all over India amply prove their durability and ease of doing. The frequent statements about “how cool traditional homes used to be” is a testimony to their contribution to comfort.

Traditionally, all tiled roofs rested on timber sections called joists, rafters and purlins, when it was easy to lift the tiles to get in. Nowadays, mild steel sections have replaced them in most areas, due to shortage of carpenters and cost considerations. Welding an additional bar under the tile converts the support into a typical grill, just like at windows, ensuring safety and security. The common complaint is that the bottom surface collects salt deposits and develops white patches. Painting this face with tile colours reduces the visibility of salt patches. If additional budget is possible, clay ceiling tiles can be installed under the main tile, providing aesthetic appeal and increased thermal comfort.

The right slope

Unknowingly, many designers provide a low angle for the roof, which decreases the overlap between tiles and rainwater slips into the building. A minimum of 25 degrees slope is necessary for any tiled roof, though in the past, much steeper 33 or 45 degree slopes were provided. The junction of roof with wall surface needs to be well done with part of the roof going into the wall and finished with curved water-proof beading. A sloping roof with tiles demands basic geometry in the plan form, to ensure proper matching of the slope angles, high points called ridges, low points called valleys, edges called eaves, ends called hips or gables and such others. As such, even before we start the construction, calculations and drawings become necessary to ascertain that the roof sits properly! Carpenters who routinely do such roofs have it all in their mind.

If tile has to top a RCC roof (such double roof lacks design logic), placing the tiles on mortar strips is a better detailing than pasting all tiles over a thick layer of mortar. Once pasted, locating water seepage and replacing the cracked tile is very difficult. Both tile and mortar being good conductors of heat, such roofs do not provide passive cooling.

Mangalore tiles might have been criticised, but building with sloping roofs has not reduced much, suggesting a continuing validity for the idea.
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NANDINI HEBBAR

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Brinjals galore Matti Gulla is one of Udupi’s best kept secrets
Matti Gulla, Udupi cuisine's favourite vegetable, is a brinjal with a legendary story to go with it

Mention Udupi food, and there are the usual suspects: dosa, idli and goli baje served with the predictable sambhar and chutney. Perhaps that is why Udupi cuisine's favourite vegetable has remained a closely guarded secret outside the region. A few more days, and it could also get the Global Indicator tag, marking Matti as the exclusive growing place of the Matti Gulla.

From this hamlet in Udupi district, the first harvest of this jade-and-moss green striped brinjal is traditionally taken to the Udupi Srikrishna temple. Sit down for a meal at the temple, and it'll show up on your leaf, shallow fried with a freshly-ground masala of red chilly, curry leaves, mustard, methi and coriander seeds. It could also be served as a fragrant “bolu huli”, cooked with tur dal as base and seasoned with hing to counter its astringency.

But what is so sacred and secret about the Matti Gulla? Lakshman Poojary Matt, a Matti Gulla farmer, says that it's sacred because of its legendary origins attributed to Vadiraja, one of the seers of the Dwaita school, who supposedly gave its seeds to the inhabitants of Matti to sow, and grow out of poverty.

Poisoned food

Another story goes that when Vadiraja's foes tried to poison his meal, they poisoned Vadiraja's offering to Krishna instead. (Vadiraja's recipe for Hayagreeva Maddi is another signature dish in Udupi cuisine, but that's another story). When truth struck home, the scared assailants turned to Vadiraja: what could they do to make amends? Vadiraja gave them some seeds to sow; serve the resulting Matti Gulla at the temple, and all shall be well again, he said. It's also a common belief that the Matti Gulla grown anywhere else does not have the same flavour.

More importantly, it is sacred because of its precarious position, endangered by the BT brinjal that could contaminate it forever, ending its legendary run as the piece de resistance of the Udupi platter!

About 50 varieties of brinjal are available in Karnataka, of which Matti Gulla is one. It is known for its low moisture content, which makes it ideal for sukka delicacies and ensures its long shelf life. Other varieties of brinjal are found within Udupi itself, such as the Benegal and the Parampalli varieties, with minor differences in size, flavour and appearance. But none of them have found the same fan following as this variety, says Krishna Prasad of Sahaja Samruddha, who has been working with the farmers to fight for the GI tag, and against the BT variety.

Lakshman explains how the Matti Gulla is one of the five brinjal varieties whose genes have been used in BT brinjal. Introduce BT brinjal in large-scale cultivation, and Matti Gulla will neither remain in Matti nor retain its salient features. He claims that this iron-rich vegetable can act as an antidote against some poisons, and also help fight diabetes. “Welcome the BT brinjal, and the game's over for us Matti farmers.” It would also spell the end of many traditions that have persisted for centuries. “We wouldn't know what to contribute during Paryaya.” Dishes of Matti Gulla are invariably served during this festival. However, what they're mostly concerned about is preserving its unique taste for which many will vouch. Eighty-six-year-old Raghavchar says that he can speak for generations of Matti Gulla fans when he says that he prefers the Matti Gulla for its unusual taste. “There are barely any seeds too, unlike other brinjal varieties. Just coat some masala on sliced Matti Gulla, sizzle it over a hot tava, and you have a wonderful snack.”

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Thick greenary, chirping of the birds and sounds from the creatures welcome the visitors to Jomlu theertha in Udupi district.
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Jomlu Theertha is a peaceful weekend getaway located near Belve village, about 35 km from Udupi, on Brahmavar - Hebri Road, where a small water fall of about 20 feet high is created by River Sita. The waterfall comes under Someshwara wildlife range. This is second water fall of the same river, first one being Kudlu Theertha. Theertha literally means holy water in Kannada language.

After getting down at Kalthoor-Santhekatte in Brahmavar, one need to travel/walk for seven kilometres to reach the spot. The walk will not be very tiring owing to a nice kaccha road (mud road) which is wide and well maintained. The walk to the spot is also a wonderful experience as the region is covered with trees on all sides. One can also hear nice ‘tunes’ from the birds on the trees. The cold crystal clear water amidst forest and between rocks would dissuade anyone from getting into the water. Once you reach the spot, the gushing of the water will shadow the shrill sound of creatures and other noises around you. As the water falls on the rocks, enjoying its sprinkle is a wonderful experience. A visit to the enchanting Jomlu Theertha water- falls amidst the dense forest on the Western Ghats will linger in your mind for a long time.

Such is its beauty, charm, and mesmerising impact. The river Sita slowly flows its way through the Western Ghats and cascades itself at Jomlu Theertha. Those who would like to get closer to the waterfalls, the authorities have created an iron ladder to the waterfalls and one can enjoy the sprinkling of the water.

One cannot see the falls during monsoon as it gets nearly covered in the flowing river water. Though the State government has put up a sign board not to litter, tourists who visit the region have been throwing plastic bags, bottles at the spot. One has to be careful while walking on the rocks leading to the falls as they are slippery. One should avoid swimming in the falls as it is too dangerous and many have lost their lives in the region. As food is not available anywhere near the waterfalls, one need to carry food and enjoy eating while sitting on the rocks.

On the Ellu amavasya (an auspicious day in the Hindu calendar) day, thousands of people throng this place to take bath under the waterfalls. So get ready to visit Jomlutheertha after the monsoon.
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For many a traveller passing through or even near Kalladka on National Highway 48, a small roadside hotel at Kalladka junction is a great attraction for its most obvious specialty: food, and more importantly, its way of serving tea and coffee.

Many of hotel Lakshmi Nivas' patrons introduce others to its simple charm: a small hotel furnished with wooden tables and benches and the tempting aroma of much loved food.

ATTRACTIVE

Probably the most attractive offering is the way the hotel has been serving tea and coffee: The regular transparent glass to show the decoction – be it tea or coffee – swirling atop the milk. The glass, in typical local fashion, would be sitting inside a small stainless steel bowl with a spoon placed beside it to stir the beverage.

According to old-timers, Kalladka Tea or KTea as it is known, is famous for the way the hotel has been making tea and coffee for more than 30 years. An employee of the hotel took this correspondent to the tea-master in a dark and cramped kitchen.

The tea-master showed how he had been making the tea for more than 20 years now. With the finesse of long practice, he quickly arranged five glasses vertically in front of him. He then poured milk into an aluminium tumbler, into which he had already put sugar. Quickly, he filled three-quarters of each glass with milk.

CUP OF JOY

After preparing the decoction in a separate container, he picked up a spoon and poured the brown liquid carefully onto the spoon, from which it slowly overflowed and settled on the milk. Swirling, but not mixing in the glass as it made its way to the customer eagerly waiting for his cup of joy.
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Mangalore institution offers PG course that trains students to become expert investigators
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With modern technology paving the way for new-wave crimes, their investigation has emerged as a challenge. And what is required is a new breed of investigators and experts having knowledge of both traditional and modern methods of investigation.

School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya, an autonomous college affiliated to Mangalore University, has introduced a post-graduate course in science stream to produce such experts. It has introduced M.Sc. in Criminology and Forensic Science from 2011-12. It is the first college under the University to introduce the course. In addition to cyber crimes through Internet service, short message service (SMS) on cellphones is now being used to cheat people in many ways. The course has been designed to address such modern crimes also, said B. Ashoka, head of the Department of Criminology and Forensic Science, at the college.

Computer application

The syllabus in the first semester deals with criminal science and administration of justice; police administration and investigation; legal science and criminal law; and computer application in criminology and forensic science.

Economic crimes

Students in the second semester will be taught the science of victimology and correction; forensic science in the justice system; economic crimes of the new age, their prevention and investigation; and minor criminal acts.

Prof. Ashoka said that the science of victimology analysed crimes from the point of view of victims, compensation to be paid for victims and the like.

Toxicology

In the remaining two semesters, students will be familiarised with forensic psychology; scientific aids in the detection of crime; research methods in criminology and forensic science; and technology in security system and vigilance.

In addition, they will be taught forensic cyber crimes, their prevention and detection; forensic medicine and toxicology; forensic analysis of questioned documents or criminalistics.

The course covers practicals, training in handling guns and rifles and the like.

Job opportunities

Prof. Ashoka said that the new breed of crime investigators will have job openings both in the private and government sectors. Police departments, banks, and security and detective agencies are looking for such postgraduates.

Organisations such as Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD), University Grants Commission (UGC) and Ministry of Human Resource Development have kept funds for research activities in criminology.

He said that public service commissions of many States have introduced the criminology subject for competitive examinations to select gazetted probationers of Class I and Class II.

Admission

Admission to the course is open till July 30. Classes will begin from August 1. The maximum intake for the two-year (four-semester) course will be 20 students. Those who have studied science in pre-university and pursued any other degree recognised by universities are eligible for admission. LL.B. graduates, those who have studied psychology, criminology, computer applications in B.A. or B.Sc. and other B.Sc. graduates are also eligible.

According to Prof. Ashoka, the School of Social Work is probably the third education institute in the State to offer the PG course in criminology and forensic science. The course has been introduced at Karnataka University, Dharwad, and Maharaja's College, Mysore.
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Bantwal, July 27: A four decade old mini bridge was collapsed at Tarabari village near Amtoor in Bantwal taluk, cutting off a main road ling between Golthamajalu and Sajipamunnooru villages.

More than 75 families residing in the area have been stranded after the incident.

Local sources informed that the four pillars of the mini bridge were washed away in the wee hours of Tuesday by heavy pressure of flood water.

The bridge had reduced the distance between two villages for two wheelers and three wheelers apart from pedestrians for past 40 years. A temporary arrangement has been made for the movement of pedestrians by keeping areca-nut trees on the collapsed bridge.

Several cracks had appeared on the bridge during the beginning days of monsoon rain and two of the pillars were on the verge of collapse. Local people have expressed anger over the lethargic attitude of politicians and officials in this issue.

“We had brought the issue to the notice of politicians including Mangalore MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, District In-charge Minister Krishna J Paleamar and Bantwal MLA B Ramanath Rai two months ago, but in vain,” lamented a local resident.

“Mr Palemar had informed that government had sanctioned Rs 48 lakhs to build a new bridge. But, we don’t know what they did with that money,” he said.

Meanwhile Deputy Commissioner Dr N S Chennappa Gowda visited the spot on Tuesday evening.
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Mangalore, July 27: With terrorism activities increasing day by day and terrorists opting sea-route to enter the country, it is important for the coast guards to tighten the security. “Fisher folk are the eyes and ears of the coastal security and help is required to keep the country safe,” said Staff Officer (Coastal Security) to the Naval Officer in Charge (Karnataka) Commander Tushar Sockey in a coastal security awareness campaign held at Mangalore on Tuesday.

India has 1750 km long coastal stretch and at several places the stretch lacks security forces. Hence, the fishermen have to be alert and inform in case they find anything unusual such as a person photographing or sketching, contacting ships with torch signals, transferring goods from a ship to a boat, transferring people, fisher folk fishing in areas not meant for fishing and are acting suspiciously or people urging fisher folk in buying their boats or renting them by paying a huge amount of money.

These incidents have to be reported immediately to the coastal security police by contacting toll free numbers 1093 and coast guards by contacting toll free number such as 1554, he said.

Sockey further stressed on the safety measures which have to be adopted by a fisherman before sailing into the sea such as usage of life buoys, life jackets and he demonstrated on how to use them. He advised fishermen to install Distress Alert Transmitters (DAT) in their boats which are available through subsidy from the government.

Fishermen retaliate

“We shall inform you in case of distress or suspicious events but how long will you take to respond,” questioned Panambur Beach Development Corporation Chairman Yatish Baikampaddy. The fisher folk have been asked to fax their complaints before action is taken. “Such kind of protocol is a hindrance during emergency,” pointed out Yatish.

The fishermen also stressed on appointing local fishermen in the coast guard security team and coastal security police. “We know the sea much better and also the fishermen,” they said. Fisherman Sharad Guddegoppla regretted that most of the people appointed in coast guards do not know the local language. “It is necessary to concentrate on area-wise recruitment,” he suggested. Another fisherman commented that the coast guards are not alert and waste too much of time following protocol during emergency.

Thushar Sockey said that he shall take down the suggestions and discuss it in higher level meetings.

Coast Gaurds Uttam Adhikari Shridhar Upadhyay said that the coast guards will be alert with a ready duty ship, whose engines will be working. However, sometimes if the ship engine is switched off, then it shall take two hours to start the engine, he said. He also informed that many a times, they have to wait for orders from Delhi office as a protocol.

Karavali Niyantrana Dala

Speaking to Deccan Herald, Coastal Security Police Inspector Mukund Nayak said that 200 fishermen are going to be employed by the coastal security police throughout the state. As many as 35 will be appointed in Mangalore in the ‘Karavali Niyantrana Dala’, he said.

These fisher folk will work similarly to the Home Guards concept. They shall accompany the coastal security police and will also conduct minor investigations and inform in case they get to know something. They shall be provided 10 day allowance in a month. The recruitment has taken place and the coastal squad may come into force by month end, he said.

‘Missing fishermen’

Three fishermen, Francis, Vincy and Manoj who had set sail from Bengre on Saturday evening and are supposed to return on Sunday morning are missing. The last call recorded from them is from Manjeshwar, said Yatish Baikampaddy who added that when he had called the coast guards, no one was answering the phone and was asked to send a complaint via fax by the coastal security police.

However, the coast guards at the meeting said they were not aware of the matter and have informed the authorities immediately after they came to know in the meeting.

Coastal Security Police Inspector Mukund Nayak said that he had received the complaint from Yatish on Monday evening and had informed the authorities for action.

“We have complained on Monday evening but still action is not taken. The fishermen have gone to sea only with water bottles. If more time is wasted, then any mishap can occur,” he said. He also said that the coast guards should use their Dornier aircraft to conduct search operations.
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Mangalore, Jul 27: Deputy commissioner Dr N S Channappa Gowda has issued instructions to officials concerned to make preparations well in hand for the Karavali Utsav to be held in December 2011. He has laid a focus on its being varied and attractive in nature and content.

He was speaking at the preliminary meeting held in his office. He has also pointed out that the local talents be given priority in cultural presentation.

The DC has stressed on the need to make the Beach Utsav also attractive and ensure that quality be the hallmark of goods on display in the stalls to be put up.
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“Women have taken literacy more seriously than men,” says Prof. Madhav, Research Department, Department of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya. The rate of change of literacy rates among women is higher than that among men in the district, he said, after looking at the data.

According to the Census of India 2011 Provisional Population Totals, (ranking of districts by literacy rate and sex: 2011), Dakshina Kannada district ranks first in Karnataka with a literacy rate of 88.62 per cent (with 93.31 per cent literacy among men and 84.04 per cent literacy among women). In 2001, 83.35 per cent of the people in the district were literate (with 89.70 per cent among men and 77.21 per cent among women).

However, he said it would be interesting to see the difference in literacy rates among women in urban and rural areas of the district and the causes for that difference.

Geographically, the district can be divided into three belts. Mangalore is on the coastal belt, where people have access to educational institutions, industry, and business houses. Puttur and Bantwal are on the middle belt, where agricultural activity dominates. In the third belt are Belthangady and Sullia, where the plantations of commercial crops are grown. “One cannot compare a woman working in a plantation in Belthangady with a woman in Mangalore,” said Madhav.

Observers mention various factors for the increase in literacy in the district, including a history of educational institutions, access to educational institutions, and the campaign for literacy of the early 1990s. However, researchers said while drawing conclusions on such issues, one must look closely at the method adopted to collect the data.

Madhav, who had been part of the independent teams that had evaluated government literacy programmes, said first there was a need for conceptual clarity in analysing such issues. “How exactly does one define literacy? Does it mean the ability to read and write? Sometimes, a person who is able to sign is considered literate. This is the problem with the quality of data,” he said.

Second, language was extremely important in collecting information. Data should be gathered directly from the primary source. But in case of inter-State gathering of data, the data collector had to use an intermediary, which was not ideal. Third, the instrument (tool for collecting data) must be scientifically correct. “Even if the sample size is small, it is fine, provided the study is systematically carried out,” he said.

Sheena Shetty, Director, Jana Shikshana Trust (an NGO), said one of the reasons for the increasing literacy rates in the district was the contribution of the literacy campaign of 1990-91. Three lakh people directly or indirectly benefited from the Total Literacy Campaign (TLC). It was a success because of local participation, he said. Besides, the district had had a history of educational institutions.

G. Giridhar Prabhu, an industrialist, said: “We are a success story in literacy”. The reason literacy in the district is not 100 per cent is possibly due to people who are in their 50s and 60s, who may not have had access to schools 50 years ago. Literacy requires infrastructure availability and access to it, he said. Another reason is motivation by parents.
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Mangalore, Jul 28: This coastal city is living two lives. One of that dream Mangalore where everything is speck and clean, swanky shopping malls, offices, clean and abundant parking place and people buying stuff in sterile atmosphere. To see the second one you may have to go the central market.

This is where 99 per cent of Mangaloreans buy their stuff, right from common mirchi to the daily vegetables, fruits flower and even have a thirst quencher while shopping. But one look at the surroundings you will want to get away as fast as possible and may have second thoughts about buying your food stuff there!
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The entire market complex which over 30 years now is wrought in filth, Apart from the walls that have gone green with algae, dangerously dangling wiring on a wet wall even if you touch it by accident you are surely to get electrocuted. Slippery floors on which muck of three decades still lives there and the food stuff you are going to buy is strewn all around the place on the ground without a care for hygiene.

Outside the market it is worse, it reeks of the typical third world market, open drains and muck dug out of the drains have been stored on the road and vendors keep their merchandise on these mounds and sell, the customers too, unmindful of the mound of mud below their stuff engage in mindless consumerism.

It is shame how the Mangalore City Corporation calls it a market and collects daily fees from the vendors and allows the consumers to buy from there. One of the vendors says “we are forced to operate from this filthy market, though there were talks about a new market everything appears to be in highly fluid condition right now. We do not have toilets and even the lady vendors are forced to relieve themselves in public places which is a disgrace to a city which calls itself the second hub of IT industry in the state”.

When contacted an officer of the Corporation said “the market complex has not got a fresh coat of paint and a re-do ever since it was constructed in 1980s, in fact what you see inside the market is all shacks that are built in volatile materials like gunny bags, temporary roofing material by the merchants, before it was a big ground or a open space inside a row of concrete rooms, the structure cannot be maintained as it is already past its age”
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News that Laxmanphala can be used for treating cancer created huge demand
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Some wild fruits are dominating over regularly available fruits in terms of prices and demand at the Central Market here.

Laxmanaphala (graviola fruit) which is considered both wild as well as cultivated cost between Rs. 400 a kg. and Rs. 600 a kg.; kavatekai cost Rs. 240 a kg. and adka baare Rs. 60 a kg., said David D'Souza, a senior merchant at the market.

There is demand for these fruits as it was said that they had got medicinal properties. Some people claim that Laxmanaphala was used by cancer patients and kavatekai was used in curing gastric problems, Mr. D'Souza said.

“A person from Sullia purchased 5 kg. of Laxmanaphala from me on Monday. Some single big fruits weigh up to a kg. There is no Laxmanaphala in market today,” Vijay, another merchant, said. Shreya M. of Padil, a consumer, said that while she was in the Central Market a week ago she saw a consumer purchasing Laxmanaphala by paying Rs. 150 for 250 grams. She said she wondered what kind of fruit it was.

Dr. Mohan Kishore, an ayurveda doctor who taught at Karnataka Ayurveda Medical College, said information available on the Internet that Laxmanaphala was useful in treating cancer had created vast demand for the fruit resulting in high price. Dr. Kishore said that he was not sure if this claim had been clinically tested. The fruit could be considered wild and cultivated, he said.

M. Mohan Alva, chairman, Alva's Education Foundation and an ayurveda doctor, said that kavatekai was now mainly used by Konkani-speaking people for making “sambar”. “They like it very much. Hence its price has gone up now,” he said. Dr. Alva said that kavatekai has got some medicinal properties and was used for curing some skin diseases.

Mr. D'Souza said that Konkani-speaking people mainly used adka baare which was also called pendaro .

Kavatekai was procured mainly from Uttara Kannada and Laxmanaphala and adka baare from local people.

Adka baare was mainly supplied from Mani area, he said.

Mr. D'Souza, who was one among the speakers at a two-day national seminar on kokum organised by Western Ghats Kokum Foundation at Goa University on May 6 and May 7, said that Mangalore is the main market for kokum, also a wild and cultivated fruit.

Kokum fruit was sold at Rs. 60 per k.g. during May season this year, he said.
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Culprit can be caught using zoom-in to note down the number plate
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By installing closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, the Mangalore City Comissionerate plans to kill three birds with a single shot.

Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh told The Hindu that the CCTV infrastructure would immediately aid traffic management and help to check crime within a specified range, but the police planned to use the mechanism to check violations of traffic laws in the city.

Mr. Singh said the city had been divided into two zones primarily: commercial areas and entry points into the city especially from Kerala and Udupi.

According to the survey carried out in the planning stage, ideally, Mangalore City Commissionerate limits should have at least 100 cameras with 360 degree vision and zoom-in capability. This would cost the police department around Rs. 6 crore as one camera costs between Rs. 60,000 and Rs. 80,000. Although he declined to disclose the exact number decided upon, Mr. Singh said some cameras had been installed in commercial areas of the city and the trial was on.

As far as possible and considering the geography and infrastructure of the city, each camera would be positioned to “see” from the point where the adjacent camera's vision “ends”. Each camera had clear vision of about 200 metres. Cameras would transmit data to the control room through wireless transmitters,Mr. Singh said.

The infrastructure consists of cameras, towers for transmitters, the server which will store one month's data, and one monitor for six cameras. When the full-fledged unit is set up, eight police personnel would be required to monitor it round the clock. An officer of the rank of sub-inspector would be deputed to head the team.

Although the system would be immediately used to detect traffic jams and aid traffic management during festive occasions and rallies, eventually the city police would integrate the system with the Regional Transport Office to penalise traffic law violators.

Mr. Singh said offences could be monitored in real-time and traffic police could be alerted about the offence over the wireless.

Even if the culprit could not be apprehended immediately, the traffic police could zoom-in to note down the registration number and obtain vehicle owner's address from the RTO and take action accordingly.

Mr. Singh said the police would write to public sector units and IT companies to set up CCTV cameras (at their own expense) at entry points into their premises in such a way that those cameras could monitor public areas.
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Causing hardship for many on the K.S. Rao Road
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People are forced to walk on the busy K.S. Rao Road owing to the drain cleaning work

One agency came and removed the slabs, while another removed the silt from the drain. The third agency came and took away the silt. “We are waiting for the fourth agency to put the slabs over the drain,” Raghava, shopkeeper, said this on Thursday while commenting on the work to remove silt from the drain between the Girias showroom and the City Centre Mall on K.S. Rao Road.

Mr. Raghava is among the many affected by the work as the drain has remained open for nearly three weeks on this busy road. This 200 metre-stretch of open drain, which also served as a pavement, has forced people to walk on the road.

“A few days ago, a pedestrian was hit by an autorickshaw,” said Jagadish, who runs a canteen on the road. “Officials are aware of the problem here. But they are yet to act,” Mr. Raghava said.

In early July, the Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) began removing the silt from the drain between Hampankatta Circle and the City Centre Mall. Jagadish, another shopkeeper, said the MCC personnel did not executive the work in a systematic way. “They just opened the drain at regular intervals on this long stretch and took their own time to remove the silt. Though we opposed it, they went ahead with the work,” he added. As a result, many slabs had been put on this busy road. Expressing concern over the delay in covering the drain, Kamalaksha, who works in a hotel on K.S. Rao Road, said: “I only fear the possibility of pedestrians falling into the drain when it overflows. Two years ago, a person fell into the drain that was open.” The cement slabs kept on the road are causing traffic snarls between the mall and the showroom. “If any car or a four-wheeler breaks down here, traffic gets disrupted,” Mr. Raghava said. He said his business suffered as not many people were willing to cross the open drain and come to his shop. Some shopkeepers polled in resources to cover the drain in front of their shops. The police said they had intimated the corporation about the problems.

“I will take it up with the corporation authorities once again,” Deputy Commissioner of Police D. Dharmaiah said.
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mangalore needs good wide pedestrian pathways something which it can learn from mysore city

^^ Mangaluru has to learn so many things from others.

First of all Mangalurians have to learn how to stop parking of vehicle on existing footpaths.

Second important thing is how to prevent entire stretch of footpath being used as entrance to small parking lot in front of buildings. Ideally there should be one single entrance to parking area of every building.

Mangalore, July 30: Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) has collected Rs 38.85 crore of property tax after the effective implementation of Self Assessment Scheme in the year 2010-11, said Dr K N Vijayaprakash, the outgoing Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner.

Speaking at a press conference called to thank the media persons for their cooperation during his stint as Commissioner at the office of Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environment Management Project (KUDCEMP), Mallikatta here on Saturday, he said earlier in the year 2009-10 it was only Rs 9.65 crore. He is expected to take charge as the Chief Executive Officer of DK Zilla Panchayat on Monday.

Mr Vijayaprakash listed out several schemes initiated during his tenure. The integrated service centre Mangalore One has come up at three places in the city, he said.

MCC also opened ‘Nagara Mithra’ to facilitate the public regarding the information and ‘Asha Chavadi’ to help the senior citizens and physically challenged people, he said.

He said MCC in collaboration with Self Help Groups (SHG) and ‘Sthree Shakthi’ will extend the coverage of underground drainage (UGD) network to the entire city.

He said, Gandhi Park which is located at Mannagudda has been developed with all necessary equipments for physically challenged children and a Park at Hat Hill will be reserved exclusively for women.

Alternate place for street vendors
Commissioner said MCC has planned alternate places, beside the Town Hall and Tempo Stand adjacent to it for street vendors who have been targeted by the civic tigers. However, the Mayor is yet to announce this, he said.

Graveyard development

He said MCC is developing Hindu graveyard at Nandigudde, Shakthinagar and Surathkal at the costs of Rs 45 lakh, Rs 35 lakh and Rs 20 lakh respectively
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Revenue section will handle bookings, allocation, and rent collection

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Mangalore City Corporation has adopted a policy with guidelines on managing public grounds in its jurisdiction.

The policy has been adopted following a direction from the Karnataka High Court in 2009. While hearing a writ petition, the High Court had directed the corporation to frame guidelines on granting permission to use any public ground.

When the draft policy was tabled on January 31, 2011 meeting of the council, it was referred to the Standing Committee for Taxation, Finance and Appeals for scrutiny and revision.

The revised policy was approved by the council on June 30, 2011 meeting. The council ratified the approval in its meeting on July 22 . With this, the policy was in place now, Sudhir Shetty Kannur, whip in the council, told The Hindu .

The policy has listed out 12 guidelines.

According to it, public grounds could be booked only two months in advance. In case, there were many bookings for a given day, priority should be given to the first applicant. The policy has laid a rider here for choosing the first applicant. According to it, if any organisation was conducting its programmes on a particular ground continuously for three years, priority should be given to it while booking the particular ground. For other applicants, the corporation should give acknowledgements either rejecting their applications or suggesting them other dates.

It said the corporation could either have a prescribed format of an application for bookings, clearly specifying the date and time when a particular ground was needed. If not, it should ensure that application filed by applicants on their own clearly specified them. If applications lacked them, the officials should reject them on the spot and issue acknowledgements to them. Such applicants should not be held over.

It said that engineering wing should arrange for drinking water and toilet facilities in identified ground and maintain the ground. Health section should maintain toilets. Revenue section would look into bookings, their allocation, and collecting rent.

The policy said that engineering wing should fence the ground owned by it and display boards to make people know that they were corporation property.

It should appoint a security person for each ground and he or she should have the entry key. The policy stated that the revenue section should maintain the land records by obtaining the records from departments concerned. Its boundaries should be marked in cooperation with the Town Planning officer and the executive engineer.

It said that during elections the ground could be rented out by imposing restrictions to ensure that the codes of conduct of elections were not violated.

The policy said no organisations could construct its permanent office, sheds or any other structures on public grounds. Permission for using grounds should be given temporarily.

It said in case it was needed to conduct government programmes on a ground which was booked, the civic body reserved the rights to cancel the booking without assigning any reason.

The policy said the Commissioner of the civic body was the final authority on permitting or rejecting the permissions for using any public ground.
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Henna plant is a glabrous shrub often cultivated as a hedge plant and ornamental too. Its leaves yeild a very important dye ''henno'' which is used for coluring palms of hands, soles of feet, nails and hair.

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Its leaves have also got international market for its dye and medicinal uses. Fresh leaves are beaten into a paste with vinegar or lime juice and are applied as a poultice to the soles of the feet to cure the trouble some affection “burning of the feet”.

Henna plant is held in particulary high esteem by Muslims.

Its leaves are also used as cosmetic hair dye and it promotes healthy growth of hair.
An ointment prepared from the leaves is used to cure wounds and ulcers.

Bark infusion is used for the treatment of jaundice and enlargement of the liver and spleen.
Usually, the brides are decorated with henna dye colouring palms and soles of the feet and the celebration called ‘Madarangi’ function, celebrated on the eve of marriage.

Madarangi, Gorante, Mehandi, are kannada names of Henna while it is also called camphene in English, ‘Mayilaanji’ in Malayalam and ‘Methye pallo’ in Konkani.

This plant scientifically is called as ‘ Lawsonia intermis’ and belongs to Lythraceae family.
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Mangalore, Aug 1: The country’s first captive breeding centre for King Cobras at the Pilikula Nisargadhama (Dr Shivaram Karanth Biological Park), Moodushedde, here has seen phenomenal success with the increase in the number of cobras yet again.

The three cobras - 'Rani', 'Nagaveni' and 'Nagamani' have hatched the 32 out of 82 eggs at the park and the process is still on. The eggs started hatching late on Sunday and all the eggs would be hatched in about a week, informed the park sources.
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There are 12 King Cobras at the captive breeding centre, of which seven are male. The movements of these reptiles are observed through closed-circuit TVs. After mating, a female cobra takes 40-45 days to lay eggs. Each cobra lays about 20-40 eggs. Every stage of the breeding activity is being documented.

The captive breeding project was taken up as per the Central Zoo Authority directive in 2003. A natural forest has been created in the enclosure, which simulates natural conditions in the Western Ghats. This enclosure is not open for visitors. The park has 175 snakes of 27 different species.
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MANGALORE: With BS Yeddyurappa finally putting in his papers on Sunday and the party set to choose the next CM on Wednesday, party workers here have been doing poojas for DV Sadananda Gowda hoping he will become the next chief minister.

DV was two-time Puttur MLA and now he is the Udupi MP. While prayers were offered to Lord Mahalingeshwara (Shiva) at Puttur a couple of days ago, Lord Anantheshwara and Lord Sri Krishna received party workers 'petitions' on Monday.

The Mahalingeshwara Temple, an ancient temple, is said to be constructed in 12th century. For devotees in Puttur no 'shubha karya begins without his blessings. Puttur BJP president Gopalakrishna Herale said party workers, along with DV's family members, performed the "Ekadashi vratha at the temple.

"It's the favourite 'vratha of Lord Shiva. We want him to be pleased and shower his blessings on DV," said Herale.
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We all mangaloreans wish that the next CM should a Mangalorean, Tired of all those biased CM towards DK,

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We all mangaloreans wish that the next CM should a Mangalorean, Tired of all those biased CM towards DK,

Yeddy infact was not biased towards Mangalore.Mangalore probably is the only non JNNURM city to be enjoying Volvo services in India.I guess no other non jnnurm city is enjoying this facility. :) Infact it was yeddy who recommended DV sadananda gowda as his successor.

Several political movers and shakers are from the region
People of the region are placing their hopes on Sadananda Gowda
They are confident the district will have more development projects now

With D.V. Sadananda Gowda the new Chief Minister, coastal Karnataka, a staunch supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party for more than a decade now, appears to have emerged as a ‘power centre' in State politics.

Though the coastal belt enjoyed enough clout in the previous administration with the presence of former Ministers V.S. Acharya, J. Krishna Palemar and Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, besides the Government's special representative in New Delhi V. Dhananjay Kumar, the elevation of Mr. Sadananda Gowda to the coveted post has turned out to be the icing on the cake.

Incidentally, Mr. Sadananda Gowda is the second person from Dakshina Kannada to become Chief Minister after M. Veerappa Moily, who was at the helm of affairs from 1992 to 1994.

Mr. Sadananda Gowda, who represents Udupi-Chikmagalur constituency in the Lok Sabha, had earlier been elected to Parliament from Mangalore in 2004 prior to which he was twice a member of the Legislative Assembly representing Puttur constituency between 1994 and 2004. He is credited for the growth of the BJP in the coastal region.

Apart from Mr. Acharya and Mr. Palemar, Dakshina Kannada is also adequately represented in the Government by Yogish Bhat, who is the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Capt. Ganesh Karnic, MLC, who is the coordinator for the NRI Cell, primarily set up to attract investment.

The former Energy and Food and Civil Supplies Minister Shobha Karandlaje may have been elected to the Legislative Assembly from Yeshwanthpur Assembly Constituency in Bangalore, but she hails from Puttur taluk. She had played a key role in the campaign against the use of endosulfan, which is believed to have caused disabilities among the people exposed to the chemical in Puttur and Belthangady taluks of Dakshina Kannada.

Facelift for district?

Mr. Palemar made no secret of his happiness over the election of Mr. Sadananda Gowda as the BJP Legislature Party leader. “The pending projects of the district will get attention and I hope they will all be completed soon,” he said.

Confident

Similarly, Mr. Yogish Bhat said that the people of the region have placed high hopes on Mr. Sadananda Gowda and expressed confidence that the region would get attention when development projects are taken up.

However, he cautioned Mr. Sadananda Gowda to work in tandem with outgoing Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, State BJP president K.S. Eshwarappa and Jagadish Shettar.

Like Shimoga?

Shimoga, which is home to the outgoing Chief Minister, had witnessed increased development work during the last three years.

Besides, four MLAs each in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada district, the BJP bagged the Mangalore City Corporation and Dakshina Kannada and Udupi zilla panchayats.
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The Ideal Café offers some great dosas, ice-cream and coffee
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A cost effective and yet a quality place to eat out in Mangalore is now not that difficult to find with the Ideal Café opening recently, in the Ideal Towers right across the Sharavu Temple. When the taste buds are happy, the label of vegetarian and non- vegetarian hardly seems to matter. This is one restaurant where even a non-vegetarian is happy to be.

Long journey

The Ideals group began its journey with the production of firecrackers in 1975 and slowly switched to a full-fledged ice cream business with the Ideals Parlour in 1980. It has now branched into chats with Chat Spot at City Centre and recently into the restaurant business with the Ideal Café.

As you enter the Café, the typical Ideal feel is quite evident — the wooden seating arrangements, the painted glass, the golden wall paper, but most importantly the impeccable service staff. Opened this February, it's relatively new and yet has a steady flow of customers who come because of the brand name.

Rajendra Pawar, a businessman who was visiting the Café for the first time with his wife said, “The service here is good, so is the food,” as he shared the masala dosa with his wife.

The menu ranges from traditional foods like rava dosa, set dosa, neer dosa to the experimental three-in- one dosas with ordinary masala, paneer masala and capsicum masala and the rich mayo-filled fruit-and-nut sandwich. For a cold beverage, there are some finely crushed iced smoothies. Few of the dishes have exciting names such as machine gun and dosa sandwich. But it is the coffee, which is the main attraction of the Ideal Café, which gives you a taste of nirvana for just 10 bucks.

When asked about the secret behind the unique flavour, owner Mukund Kamath smiled and said it was the result of a “three-month trial”.

Manju Neeresh Wallya, who is regular customer here, says that with his office at the next road, he and his colleagues generally come here for evening tea and he loves neer dosa and paneer ghee roast. However, the system of self service is something that he is yet to adjust.

Kamath, however, rationalises by saying “It is hassle-free and saves the customers from tipping,” and chuckles. Nevertheless, on a serious note, he believes, the self service system will soon be the order in the hotel industry.

Ideals, which greatly relies on quality, has now even started Ideals Bakery near Felix Bazaar Hampankatta, which makes the bread required for their in-house consumption.

Another fresh entry into their business is the Premium brand of ice-cream, also available at the café. Be it the rose flavoured Pink Passion or anjir-flavoured Shahi Nut or the tangy Nut Cut or the bitter Belgium Chocolate, they are all rich, creamy and are guaranteed melt-in-your-mouth types.

The Ideal Café has been low on marketing. “We mainly rely on word of mouth publicity and sometimes bill board advertising,” says Kamath.
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I firmly believe a person visiting Mangalore should never miss a visit to Ideal Ice Cream Parlor,

Several political movers and shakers are from the region
People of the region are placing their hopes on Sadananda Gowda
They are confident the district will have more development projects now



Mangalore ring road,Footpaths must remain high on the priority list

Mangalore ring road,Footpaths must remain high on the priority list

But my list starts like this:-
1 Footpaths & Drainage
2 Revamp the Public Transport System
3 Improve the Central Market
4 Speed up the process on Mangala Corniche, Transportation Hub, Proposed IT park by KEONICS at Mangalore, and goes on..

‘Councillors fear that the panels will undermine their importance'
People in the jurisdiction of the Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) have been deprived of advantages of citizens' ward committees. It is because the council of the civic body has been avoiding their constitution for 14 years.

After a voluntary organisation wrote to the Commissioner of the corporation on July 14, 2011 that it would petition the Karnataka High Court about the failure to constitute the committees, an agenda to form them was placed in the meeting of the council on Friday last. The council postponed the agenda again without taking any decision. Namma Mane Namma Ooru of Pachchanady had written the letter. According to an agenda note in the meeting, there is a need to constitute the committees as they are required under Section 13 (A) of the Karnataka State Municipal Corporations' Act, 1976. The Government had issued a notification to this effect on September 23, 2003 after making necessary amendments to the law. According to it, the committees have to be constituted by dividing the wards (in case of MCC it is 60) under 20 zones. But a decision to this effect has been pending before the council since 1997-98.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in its manifesto for the MCC council elections in 2007 stated that it would constitute ward committees and their meetings would be conducted systematically. This promise is yet to be realised.

Nagarika Hitarakshana Samithi president G. Hanumantha Kamath told The Hindu that the councillors feared that if the committees were constituted they would undermine their importance. When the committees were in place, the councillors could not get works done as per their whims and fancies. They could not do favours to anybody. Then, works would have to be taken up on priority as per the decision of the committee. There would be more transparency.

All councillors, irrespective of political parties did not want the committees purposefully, Mr. Kamath said.

Speaking to The Hindu, a BJP councillor agreed with Mr. Kamath's views. He said even some councillors of the Opposition Congress had contacted him before Friday's meeting to ensure postponement of approval. A senior Congress councillor even questioned him for tabling the agenda at the Friday's meeting. The Congress councillor was unhappy that the BJP was raking up the issue which his party managed to put on the backburner.

Padmanabha Ullal, adviser to Ooru, and who was formerly an Assistant Executive Engineer in the Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board, said that the former councillor from Kankanady Judith Mascarenhas was indeed conducting ward committee-like meetings in her ward. She used to take up works as per the decision taken in such meetings.

Mr. Ullal said Ooru had raised the subject at “jana samparka” meetings held at the Town Hall in the presence of N. Yogish Bhat, Mangalore City South MLA, twice.
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MANGALORE: Mangalore-based private sector bank Karnataka Bank Limited bagged the best bank award for managing IT risk under small bank category for 2010-11.

The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) instituted the award. Anand Sinha, deputy governor, Reserve Bank of India and chairman, IDRBT, presented the award to P Jayarama Bhat, managing director at a function held in Hyderabad.

A bank press release here on Saturday said this is for the second consecutive year it has won the award. The bank in 2009 bagged special award for the use of IT for internal effectiveness instituted by IDRBT. The bank which is tech savvy is the first private sector bank to have introduced core banking solution way back in 2000. The bank has networked all its existing 483 branches, thereby ensuring anywhere anytime banking facility.

The bank has a wide range of technology backed services such as MoneyplantTM international debit card, Internet banking facility, e-shopping, online railway ticket booking, VISA bill payment.

The bank recently launched point of sale terminal facility and also entered into strategic tie up with M/s Way2Wealth Brokers Pvt Ltd. for providing online trading facility.

The bank proposes to introduce gift card, travel card and application supported by blocked amount facilities for its customers during current financial year.
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MANGALORE: Dakshina Kannada district unit of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) has recorded considerable progress in civil works implementation in its 933 government primary schools in 2010-11. As per the government's directions, all districts should compulsorily complete all civil works under SSA before August 31.

The district had shown excellent progress by completing 80% of the work before December 2010 itself. The state had recorded an average progress of only 61.75% during the period. While Bangalore had recorded only 43% progress, Ramnagara recorded 46% and Bagalkot recorded 76.42% by end of December 2010.

SSA deputy project co-ordinator N Shivaprakash said the government had sanctioned 58 new classrooms for the district under SSA in 2010-11. While 44 classrooms have already been opened, 14 await only painting works. Similarly, the district also had shown progress in the construction of toilets for girls. While 106 toilets were sanctioned for the year, 99 have already been opened and remaining requires only minor finishing works, he added.

A total of Rs 9.23 crore was sanctioned for 406 works including two new school buildings, 58 additional classrooms, 145 headmasters chambers, 106 toilets and 95 major repair works up in 2010-11, he said, adding that the district had achieved 100% progress in civil works implementation in 2009-10 too.

Shivaprakash attributed the success to effective School Development and Monitoring Committees, which are directly involved in the civil works implementation. SSA assistant programme officer (civil works) Gangadhar told STOI that performance of the district with regard to civil works implementation is praiseworthy, compared to other 33 educational districts in the state. The district did not only complete works within time frame, but also had taken up all works ensuring good quality.

The government has sanctioned Rs 6.61 crore to construct 39 classrooms, 93 headmasters chambers, and 23 toilets including five for girls in 2011-12. A total of 30.49 crore has been earmarked to implement various other programmes under the SSA. More grants are expected in the supplementary budgets too. SSA could not complete the construction of building for Nadupadavu Government Lower Primary School in Bantwal taluk since there is a litigation regarding land dispute pending before the court, Shivaprakash explained.
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Mangalore, Aug 9: It was a memorable day for a group of sixty students as they donned the role of paddy cultivators and tried their hands at farming.

The programme was organised for the NSS students of Narayan Guru Government Pre-University College under the aegis of National Greenery Unit at Haleyangady. Sudesh Kumar, proprietor of Pooja Sounds, Haleyangady sponsored the outing.
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Jyoti K, Kannada lecturer of the College, urged the students to take an interest in paddy cultivation as it is the staple food of people in the coastal district.

The students worked hand in hand with the farmers, learning and experiencing the nuances of paddy cultivation.

Padupanambur gram panchayat president Vinod Salian presided over the programme.

College principal Girija Menasinakai inaugurated the programme.

College development committee vice-president Vasant Bernad, and Kallapu Veerabhadra Mahammayi temple managing trustee president Pitamber Shettigar were present.

NSS programme officer Premanat welcomed the gathering. National Greenery unit officer Balasundar proposed the vote of thanks.

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I guess this was a great move, educational ministry should consider agricultural activity as a internship or as a project work. this ll enhance the knowledge about agriculture and nature with a students. especially at this era of electronic gadgets and urban lifestyle.

Aish Speaking in Tulu in Mangalore

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nice :cheers:

Very good squid landings boosted marine exports
Quake destroyed many fishmeal units in Peru
Marine exports and fishmeal and fish oil exports from Karnataka this year have doubled compared to last year, with total exports estimated at Rs. 681 crore in 2010-11 as against Rs. 392 crore in 2009-10.

Rajakumar S. Naik, city-based Assistant Director, The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, gave the statistics on Tuesday.

The State exported 1 lakh tonnes of the products in 2010-11 as against 91,000 tonnes of marine exports in the previous year. The State's exports of fishmeal had doubled as it exported fishmeal estimated at Rs. 442 crore in 2010-11 as against Rs. 225 crore in 2009-10. Fishmeal and fish oil account for 65 per cent of the exports from the State.

“Very good” squid landings helped boost the exports, he said. Ribbon fish and “rani” (Nempiterus japonicus) or “madmal” (Kannada) landings too were good.

Good demand

The latter was used to manufacture “surimi” or fish paste especially in Japan, the biggest market for exports, where it was used to make imitation shrimps, lobsters, and crab claws. Mackerel, earlier not being exported, caters to good demand from Malaysia, Thailand, and Taiwan now, Mr. Naik said.

A major reason for the high demand for Indian fishmeal was because of an upset in Peru that exported the largest amount of fishmeal. “Because of the Peru earthquake, we got a good demand. It destroyed the fishmeal exporting units in that country,” he said.

There were 26 fishmeal and fish oil units in Karnataka, of which 13 are registered with MPEDA.

Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts had 14 frozen marine food exporting units of which nine were in Mangalore, one in Thadadi (in Kumta), and two were coming up (one in Udupi and one in Kota) in Udupi district.

Of Karnataka's 300 km coastline, the major frozen marine food industry was in Dakshina Kannda and Udupi districts. Seventy five per cent of the fish landings were in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, namely in Mangalore, Malpe, Gangolli and to a lesser extent in Hangarkatta and Hejmadi, according to Mr. Naik.

Export earnings from marine products had crossed 8,13,091 tonnes accounting for $ 2.8 billion (about Rs. 12,900 crore) for the first time in India.

Compared to the previous year, seafood exports recorded a growth of 19.85 per cent in quantity, 28.39 per cent in rupee, and 33.95 per cent in dollar terms, he said.

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-- Udayavani

Jalala waterfall is located 10 km away from Mangaluru at Adyar further 1 km interior to NH-75. Has potential to become a picnic spot.

Mangalore, Aug 11: Surgeons at K S Hegde Hospital performed a rare surgery on a 71-year-old woman for a giant coronary artery aneurysm and coronary to pulmonary artery fistula, recently.

The coronary artery provides the main blood supply to the heart muscles and its normal size is about 2 mm. In this patient, there was an abnormal dilatation of the coronary artery to almost 20 times than its normal size. This is called giant coronary aneurysm. It was almost the size of a lemon.
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The patient also had an abnormal connection between the coronary artery and pulmonary artery which is called coronary pulmonary fistula that results in mixing of pure and impure blood. This condition is a rare one with an incidence of less than 1 in 1 lac people. The patient was operated upon in a major open heart surgery which lasted for almost five hours. Her coronary aneurysm was restored and the abnormal fistulous connection was closed. She made an uneventful recovery and got discharged.

The condition of the patient was diagnosed by Dr K Subramanyam, chief interventional cardiologist of K S Hegde Hospital. The patient was operated on by a team of doctors led by Dr M Gopalakrishnan, chief cardio-thoracic surgeon, K S Hegde Medical Academy (KSHEMA), and included Dr Manjunath Kamath, Dr Krishna Prasad, Dr Rakesh K R, and Venugopal.
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There is no doubt Mangalore is a one of the best tier II cities with good health facilities, My only dream is Mangalore should get a Heart specialty like Narayana Hrudalaya(like in Bangalore and in construction in Mysore) and a Cancer Speciality like Vellore, Then Magalore will be a complete Medical tourism destinatin.

Guys and what do you say about starting a new thread on Hospitals, Or else to keep things simple we can edit Mangalore Hotels, Lodges & Resorts thread to accommodate Hospitals

Guys lets refresh i got some of these photos from a Facebook profile.
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Suratkal beach
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Golf course Pilikula,
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Mangalore, August 11: Exuding a lot of confidence on getting big catch, hundreds of mechanised fishing vessels along Arabian Sea in Mangalore have lifted their anchors on Thursday, as the annual fishing ban came to an end.

With this, Mangalore Fishing Port is once again is buzzling with activities.

Among more than 700 mechanised boats, almost half have begun their voyage, according to fishermen leader Vasudev Bolur.

“Although the fishing ban had ended on Wednesday, August 10, the deep sea fishing vessels had received green signal to venture into sea on August 3, as they have to travel several kilo-metres. Hundreds of remaining fishermen ventured into sea on Thursday,” he said.

However, Mr Bolar said that a considerable number of fishermen have decided to lift the anchors only after scheduled Samudra Pooja on August 13.

Earlier in the day, heavy rush was witnessed for ice bars and diesel. Ice bars were reportedly sold in black.

This year, the fishing ban was imposed from June 15. The Karnataka Government, in accordance with the Karnataka Marine Fishing (Regulation) Act 1986, had imposed a 57-day fishing ban along coastal Karnataka keeping in mind the welfare of fishermen and fisheries business in the State and to allow the breeding of the fish during the ban period.

The ban was applicable for fishing activity being taken with the help of mechanised boats, trawlers, and country boats with in-bound or out-bound engines above 10 HP.
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There is no doubt Mangalore is a one of the best tier II cities with good health facilities, My only dream is Mangalore should get a Heart specialty like Narayana Hrudalaya(like in Bangalore and in construction in Mysore) and a Cancer Speciality like Vellore, Then Magalore will be a complete Medical tourism destinatin.

Guys and what do you say about starting a new thread on Hospitals, Or else to keep things simple we can edit Mangalore Hotels, Lodges & Resorts thread to accommodate Hospitals

You can create a new thread titled

Mangalore Healthcare,Ajay will be delighted :)

Guys lets refresh i got some of these photos from a Facebook profile.


Mangalore mania most of those pics are taken by our Avinash/avi mangalore,Plz go through the Mangalore cityscape thread.That facebook profile has blatantly lifted Avinash's pics.

You can create a new thread titled

Mangalore Healthcare,Ajay will be delighted :)



Mangalore mania most of those pics are taken by our Avinash/avi mangalore,Plz go through the Mangalore cityscape thread.That facebook profile has blatantly lifted Avinash's pics.

Oh I see thanks for informing me, I have seen past photos of Mangalore in SSC but couldn't remember them, And yes i saw few photos of Avi photos in that profile

FKCCI plans coastal biz development summit in Mangalore (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/economy/article2347143.ece)

MANGALORE, AUG. 11:
The Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI) is planning to organise Coastal Business Development Summit in Mangalore during November or December.

This was revealed by Mr J.R. Bangera, President of FKCCI, at the Coastal Region Development Coordination Committee meeting of FKCCI in the premises of Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) here on Thursday.

Mr Bangera said that plans are there to rope in non-resident Indians (NRIs) for this summit.

Highlighting the potential of coastal region, he said there is scope for setting up cold storage plants for supporting the market of perishable goods like fish, fruits and vegetables. There is also scope for more general engineering workshops and steel fabrication units in and around Mangalore, he said.

He said that the FKCCI has kept its theme for 2011-12 as ‘development of districts through MST’ (manufacturing, services and trade). This will enable Karnataka to become a vibrant economy through the development of MST sector.

FKCCI would undertake studies on the current issues faced by the trade and industry in the districts so as to suggest proactive policy measures to the State Government for implementation.

Mr Bangera said that FKCCI has formed five regional committees focusing on Mysore, coastal Karnataka, Malnad districts, northern Karnataka districts and Hyderabad-Karnataka districts. These committees assess each region’s issues and challenges, he said. Two committee meetings have been held at Mysore and at Belgaum on August 2 and 8, respectively. Meeting in Mangalore on Thursday is the third one.

On the issues related to double taxation on industrial areas in urban areas, he said the FKCCI has taken up the matter with the Government for the rationalisation of tax system in the state. The property owners are paying taxes to the local urban bodies and to maintenance charges to the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board.

He said that the State Government has constituted a committee at the request of FKCCI to rationalise the property taxes in industrial areas in the state and to maintain a uniform formula.

Mr Bangera said that the FKCCI will confer this year’s Sir M. Visvesaraya award to Dr D. Veerendra Heggade of Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala at Bangalore on September 15.

Ms Lata Kini, President of KCCI, presided over the meeting.

Hope it brings in auto industries or some steel fabrication industries.

UDUPI: Chikka Mela, the shorter version of the famous coastal folk art, Yakshagana, was on the verge of extinction. Thanks to Kala Peeta of Kota, this art form is seeing a gradual revival.

As the name suggests, the Chikka Mela troupe consists of one male character (purusha vesha) and one woman character (sthree vesha) plus a background team of seven, which include the Bhagavatha, drummer and two assistants, as opposed to Yakshagana, which has a minimum of 12 characters.

Speaking to TOI K Narasimha Tunga, chief of the Kala Peeta and noted teacher of Yakshagana, said in the past, Chikka Mela was performed during the whole of Ashwayaja (November) month, but was restricted to a couple of days performance in the month of Shravana (July-August).

Now, Kala Peeta's Chikka Mela troupe has started performing at villages to popularize it. The troupe starts its journey after 6pm, moves across various villages nearby and perform till 11pm. In each village/house, the troupe performs for a duration of 15 minutes, mostly on mythological subjects. For many of the Yakshagana artistes who make their living in the summer season with good numbers of programmes, the Chikka Mela will be a source of income during the monsoon season, when shows are scarce.

Also, in most of the Chikka Mela troupes, performers may not be the top class Bhagavatha or even top-rated artiste. Hence, the Chikka Mela turned out to be an ideal practising ground for beginners and through this, many beginners have excel in the art of Yakshagana, says Tunga.

Another major benefit of the Chikka Mela is for people with restricted movement due to ailments. The Chikka Mela would be an ideal source of entertainment at their doorsteps. Besides this, children will also get a taste of the arts and rudimentary knowledge of mythological characters and fairly good knowledge of epics through this art, said Tunga.
This form of special art which is prevalent in Udupi district, will exist and sustain only if the artiste and art lovers have some commitment, says Tunga. The Kala Peeta, situated at Dr Shivarama Karanth's birthplace, is doing its mite to keep the art form from being relegated to the pages of history, he said.
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Eating Out Crumbz has a whole lot of things going for it — from the perfectly sweet pastries, to the contrasting savouries and then, the student-friendly pricing

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O ne visit to an outlet of Crumbz and any ideas about being weight-conscious will melt into nothing after just one bite of the molten chocolate on a piece of Lava Cake.

With comfortable couches and the enticing smells around you, it is a pleasure to binge on a range of mouth-watering pastries and patties sinfully placed behind those glass counters.

A retail outlet of Mangalore-based bakery Gyp-gyp-gy, Crumbz is popular among teachers and students alike in Manipal.

For Vaishnavi Shenoy, a student of Manipal Institute of Communication, the cotton-soft chocolate doughnuts dipped in hot chocolate sauce are irresistible.

“Every time I pass by Crumbz, I just have to stop and get a bite of my favourite hot doughnuts!” she quips. Most students love hanging around the place without having to feel guilty about being extravagant, she said.

Hot lava on your plate

According to owner, Krishna Bhat, the students make a beeline for the Lava Cake, a spongy delight covered with creamy, molten chocolate that melts in your mouth.

Other exclusive treats with tantalising names include Devil's Alcohol, a chocolate treat with a generous dash of rum (the devil is in the detail!).

Café Mocha is for you if you like getting high on caffeine. Then, there's the usual varieties of White Forest and Black Forest pastries.

The sweet Mulberry Pastry has an almost tangy flavour to it, topped and layered with red mulberry sauce and white cream as the base.

Or, you could sample the rum balls – tiny chocolate balls with a rum base and covered in chocolate sauce – that cost Rs. 8 each.

Surprisingly, considering that dentists and sweets don't go together, Crumbz is the brainchild of the owner's daughter, Ashika Bhat, who is a dentist by training; the result of a woman who studied dentistry but remained a gourmet baker at heart.

And for those who don't have a sweet tooth, hot snacks such as the egg and vegetable patties ought to tickle your taste buds with their fresh and crisp texture outside and hot, medium-spicy filling inside.

The pizza rolls curled into spirals of baked dough are topped with cheese, sprinklings of tomato and capsicum pieces and served hot. Don't go expecting a real pizza there, though.

Bhat, a food technologist, faithfully stands behind the counter, keenly observing the satisfied looks on his customers' faces.

This local joint has six branches in Mangalore, two in Suratkal and one in Manipal with the latter almost always teeming with people.

The secret? Their quick and efficient service, in-house trained staff and mouth-watering dishes that have a rich texture, beautifully blended with the right amount of sweetness. The prices range from Rs. 8 to Rs. 45 for pastries and patties.

Half kg and one kg cakes are priced from Rs. 150 to Rs. 350 depending on the flavour and can be ordered a day before the occasion.

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Mangalore Healthcare,Ajay will be delighted :

Definitely Akash. We need someone Physically to go out and take pictures of Hospitals .
Another would be MANGALORE STATISTICS.

They have done it again

NITK has taken the 8th position and KMC Manipal the 10'th top Medical college in the country.

MANGALORE: Did you know that there are 108 varieties of vegetarian Udupi delicacies? If you think the numbers are wrong, a visit to Toronto in the second week of April would be a good idea, where all the 108 varieties of Udupi delicacies will be available under one roof!

With a view to creating awareness of the Udupi vegetarian food, exhibit variety of sweets, snacks and food people of Toronto, a very elaborate 'Udupi Food Festival' has been organized by Sri Krishna Vrundavana, the new Udupi Temple and community centre near Niagara Falls, Toronto, for a week, starting from August 14 and ending on Krishna Janmasthami day.

The Sri Krishna Vrundavana was inaugurated by Sugunendra Theertha Swamiji of Udupi Sri Puthige Mutt in April 7 this year. The seer is already in Toronto to oversee the food fest preparations.

Some of the unique, rare and exquisite sweets and snacks such as Kodubale, Sukurunde, Happala, Attrasa, Pattrode, Gatti, Appa Ode, Laddu, Chakkuli, Holige, Jhangri etc, will be prepared and offered to Guru Raghavendra and Lord Sri Krishna. Yes, the fare will be authentic as three special cooks have already reached Toronto.

Puthige Mutt secretary Prasanna Acharya told TOI that the staff cooks from the mutt, Ram Mohan, Jayaram and Prasad, have already reached Toronto. These three master cooks have been on the rolls of Puthige Mutt since two decades.

Acharya said there were many dishes which are not prepared in hotels, barring the mutt like Vrathada adage, vrathada saaru, more than 20 varieties tambuli (vegetable preparation mixed with butter milk) like cucumber, ginger, pappad etc, will all be made available at the food fest.

Acharya said a Vedic Vidyapeeth will also be opened in the Niagara Falls area to help train priests, both for students from North America as well as India. "The Seer is in the process of getting the requisite permissions from the Canadian authorities," added Acharya.
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A remote-controlled miniature helicopter fitted with a video camera enthralled the gathering at Nehru Maidan in Mangalore on MondayIndependence Day was celebrated with all fervour by people in Mangalore on Monday. Nehru Maidan, the venue for the 65th Independence Day celebrations organsied by the district administration, was filled with people including people's representatives, the police, NCC cadets and schoolchildren.

Flying demonstration of a mini-remote controlled helicopter was the cynosure of all eyes. The demonstration by Ratnakar Nayak of Indian Aero Modelling Society, Mangalore, drew people of all ages.

Children and elders ran after Mr. Nayak after the copter landed successfully following “pushparchane” (showering of petals) on the crowd.

Mr. Nayak told The Hindu that the engine-based copter weighed 4.5 k.g. and aviation turbine fuel (ATF) was used to operate it. Its fuel carrying capacity stood at 350 ml.

He said that it could be controlled up to 1.5 k.m. radial distance from the remote.

Mr. Nayak said that it was developed six months ago and it was demonstrated for the first time at the maidan. The copter had a video camera. Its real time recording in air could be viewed on the lap top at the ground. He said he had developed a mini copter weighing 3.5 k.g. and flown it in the maidan.

The venue had shaded “shamianas” installed around the periphery of the maidan for seating people.

After the flag-hoisting ceremony, the sports activities took place, starting with the “Independence Day Trophy” cricket match between Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists' Association and DC XI. Jayaram Bhat, MD and CEO, Karnataka Bank, and J.S. Shenoy, Deputy General Manager, Syndicate Bank, batted in the match.

Parking was not available for a long distance around the Nehru Maidan. “No Parking” signs were ignored and vehicles were parked as far away as the gates of Corporation Bank in Pandeshwar.

At the side of the maidan facing the RTO road, vendors of paper fans did brisk business, especially luring the children. In the cricket match, two “gombe” characters were among the fielders. They took breaks from the fielding to shake hands with children.

The cricket match was won by Police XI which put up 38 for 6 in the limited overs match. DC XI could score 20 for 5. The journalists team lost in the semifinal round to Police XI.
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Mangalore, Aug 17: The city police commissionerate has introduced a system through which the members of the public can file their complaints by telephone.

Supported by the Interactive Voice Recording System (IVRS), the facility allows citizens to submit their pleas and plaints from their own telephones, without the need to come in person. It is a totally computerized system.

Dial (0824) 2222212

The system responds, with language options in Kannada and English, and gives instructions to have the verbal complaint recorded in voice format. The reference number is also provided. The complainant has to give his / her name, address and contact number and press the specified key after the message. The time-slot available is just a single minute.

The status of the complaint, whether registered, under investigation or investigation completed or whether it is disposed of, can be verified at a later stage with the help of the same system.

Replies and endorsements will be sent through the email IDs provided by the complainant. In the absence of an email ID, a copy of the endorsement can be collected in person.
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Mangalore Aug 17: After Steve Waugh and Chris Cairns, its now Heath Streak's turn. The former Zimbabwe captain and current national coach has appointed Joseph Rego as his Foundation Head.

Apart from being cricketers, if there is something else that links Ian Botham, Steve Waugh, Chris Cairns and Heath Streak, it is their penchant for philanthropy. They surely have touched many more hearts around the world with all the charity they do with cricket. Heath Streak, the former Zimbabwe cricket captain and a legend in the world of cricket, is bowled over by little children deprived of good education, nutrition and health care.
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He owns a thriving farm back home in Zimbabwe and cricket is his passion. Here in India he wants to do his bit to help needy children. In order to help underprivileged children get a better tomorrow, Heath Streak has initiated a trust to change the lives of the less fortunate in society. He has appointed his long-time friend and agent Joseph Rego as head of the his foundation.

Joseph Rego also heads the Chris Cairns Foundation established in India by the legendary former Kiwi cricket captain Chris Cairns in support of hearing-impaired children. The Heath Streak Foundation will brighten the lives of thousands of urchins, little beggars, slum children, the poor and the deserving needy that dot the urban landscape.

For Heath Streak the lion-hearted cricket legend, it is the children who are a big hit, said Joseph Rego, the chairman of the Heath Streak Foundation while distributing scholarships at the Cheshire Home, Mangalore to underprivileged children towards their tailoring and computer education.

The Heath Streak Foundation launch initially scheduled to be held in October 2011 has now been postponed to February 2012. With Bangladesh currently on a tour to Zimbabwe followed by a packed calendar of international and domestic cricket commitments, it is difficult to obtain dates from Zimbabwe Cricket Board for him to travel to Mangalore for the launch till February 2012. "Heath is in negotiation with Zimbabwe Cricket for dates and we should have positive dates after the current Zimbabwe - Bangladesh series," announced Rego.

As mentioned at a press conference earlier by Dr Srikanth Rai, DKCA President, Mangalore will witness a huge cricket extravaganza in February 2012 with the visit of the Zimbabwe Cricket Team to the coastal city to play a T20 cricket against the "Mangalore Indians", selected and groomed by the Dakshina Kannada Cricket Association. Heath Streak has already approached some of the famous past big names like Stuart Carlisle, Alistair Campbell, Grant Flower, Douglass Merillier and current cricketers like Tatinda Taibu, Ray Price and Elton Chigumbura to be a part of the Heath Streak squad that will tour Mangalore in Febraury 2012, Rego said.
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Heath Streak Foundation to be launched in Mangalore

MANGALORE: Cricketers and their penchant for philanthropy is well known. It was a certain 'Beefy' aka Ian Terence Botham who captivated the world's imagination with his 'Hannibal Walk' in 1988 raising funds for Leukaemia research. Cricketers since then including legends including former Australian captain Steve Waugh, and former Black Caps skipper Chris Cairns too followed suit. Latest to join the bandwagon is Zimbabwean Heath Streak.

Owning a thriving farm back home in Zimbabwe, Heath Streak is all set to launch the Heath Streak Foundation that will work specifically for the underprivileged children across India. The Foundation that was initially to be launched in October will now be launched in February 2012. The change in dates is on account of a packed international calendar that Zimbabwe national side has for the moment. Streak is currently Zimbabwe's national coach.

Managing the Foundation is Mangalorean Jospeh Rego, whom Streak has appointed as the head. Incidentally, Joseph, a cricket agent for many, also heads the Chris Cairns Foundation, which was launched with much fanfare in India last year. Joseph told TOI that the Heath Streak Foundation will work to help the underprivileged children of all hues that dot the urban landscape. "Children are a big hit with Heath Streak," Joseph revealed.

Stating that Heath Streak will travel to the city in February next, when the Zimbabwean side gets a break from its national commitments to launch the Foundation, Joseph said a 'T-20 Cricket Carnival' featuring leading names of Zimbabwe cricket such as Stuart Carlisle, Alistair Campbell, Grant Flower, Tatinda Taibu, Ray Price squaring off against 'Mangalore Indians', selected by Dakshina Kannada Cricket Association too is on the cards.

Incidentally, Rego at the height of ICC World Cup 2011 had brought down Chris Cairns his motley crew of international first class cricketers who took on local talents for the Maruti Suzuki Chris Cairns T20 Cricket Cup earlier in February. It was on this occasion that Rego had mooted the idea of bringing the Zimbabwean cricket side over to this coastal city for a charity match. "This will now happen alongside the launch of the foundation," he said.
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The word ‘palace’ itself gives an idea of monarchy which tells the tale of a kingdom. Vitla, a small town in Dakshina Kannada district too has a palace. Though it does not look like a palace, the saga is quite interesting.
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According to available documents, Domba Heggade ruled Vitla from 1426 AD for some years. However, the control of Domba Heggade family over Vitla continued till 1784, untill Tippu Sultan murdered Achyutha Heggade in an attack. Later, the royal family left the palace of Vitla and moved to Thalassery in Kerala. When the royal family returned after some years, the palace was completely burnt. This is the story one can get from the pages of history about Domba kingdom and the palace.

On the other hand, according to the localites, the Vitla palace covered an area of one square furlong and the prayer room of the old palace has been converted into a ‘bana’.

While the stone frames of the doors are covered with plants and anthills, the giant door, known as elephant door of the old palace is covered under rubbles. A stone sculpture which is known as ‘Shakthi kallu’ is in courtyard of the old palace. The size and design of the old palace can be imagined through the doorframe of prayer room.

Similarly, the courtyard of the palace is surrounded by three wells. While one well was reserved for the members of the royal family, the other two wells were meant for guests.

However, the courtyard of the palace is now converted into a paddy field and a road passes through the palace land. In fact, the elephant door frame is the only clue about giant size of the old palace.

New palace

When royal family returned from Thalassery, they had to have a palace in the same place. So they built a smaller palace which now exists in Vitla. This palace has a history of 250 years. A family of 30 members is living in this palace. Though it is said to be much smaller in size when comapred with the old palace, it gives an idea of the old house with its ‘Elephant’ doors, stone poles, hall and door frames.

Domba kingship followed ‘Aliakattu’ or ‘Matrupradhana’ system, which the bunts follow even to this day.

At present, Janardhana Verma heads the family. As many as 16 temples come under the family.

Ardent devotees of Lord Durgaparameshwari and Ullalti Panchalingeshwara, the Vitla kingdom was well known for their philanthropic work. It is said that the family helped and donated land irrespective of caste or creed including Muslims and Christians.

Localites also say that there was a wall kind of structure, a part of the old fort.

But historians said to have destroyed that structure to “find out” more information about the place. If the authorities concerned take little interst, the place where the old palace existed and now in a pathetic condition may be improved or converted into a tourist spot.

How to reach

From Mangalore, it is easy to reach Vitla. Interested can take a bus to Vitla and get down in old KSRTC bus stand. From bus stand, it takes few minutes to reach Vitla palace by walk.
I think enough research and importance was given to find the history of Mangalore..

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It is the first school of Coastal karnataka, Anybody has more knowledge of this institution and its History.?
Started by German Basel Missionories.
I got a small Article Click here (http://mangaloretoday.com/mt/index.php?action=opinion&type=29)

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Mangalore, Aug. 22:
Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) has launched the “IOB-Sagar Lakshmi,” a scheme for the benefit of fisherwomen. A press release said here that Mr M. Narendra, Chairman and Managing Director of IOB, launched the scheme in Kulai village of Mangalore taluk on August 21. Sanction letters amounting to Rs 30 lakh were handed over to 35 beneficiaries, it said. The scheme entails financial assistance to fisherwomen engaged in selling of fresh/dry fish, fish processing, fish storage, and so on. A maximum loan of Rs 10 lakh will be considered depending upon the nature of business and its need, the release added.
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MANGALORE: Mangalore City Police commissionerate is slowly but surely getting the look of city centric policing, a good 19-month after it was declared the fourth such policing unit in Karnataka. Critical to urban centric policing is staffing, both at the constabulary as well at the higher levels. Being a nascent policing unit, the process of getting requisite clearances for appointment of personnel has taken its time, and is being tackled one step at a time.

Presently, the city police has strength of around 1,700 personnel right from commissioner of police to the ministerial staff. This number is expected to cross 2,000 once the policing unit gets sanction for recruitment of personnel on civil side (especially at constabulary level), city armed reserve (CAR), wireless and ministerial staff. Initial projection was for 1,558 personnel on civil side, 748 in CAR, 35 in wireless section and 69 in ministerial side.

While the process of appointment of 200 police constables, delayed on account of technical issues, is presently underway, the city police got a shot in the arm when the state government appointed Police Inspectors (PIs) to key police stations including Mulki, Bajpe, Mangalore Rural and Urwa police stations. This leaves the posts of PIs vacant in Barke, Kavoor, Konaje and Traffic police stations respectively and are expected to be filled up at the earliest.

City Police Chief Seemanth Kumar Singh told TOI that the appointment of PIs to these key stations would ensure effective policing at the station level. "A senior police official heading the police station would bring with them their experience," he said, adding they would play more of a supervisory role, distributing the workload equally among the two Police Sub-Inspectors who would focus on crime, as well the most important law and order duties.

Hitherto, a PI in certain instances was designated Circle Police Inspector and given overall supervisory role of three to four police stations. In the commissionerate set up, PIs will focus on more important heinous cases exclusively pertaining to their police station and allow junior colleagues to handle routine duties, he said. Policing would also be more focussed in that PIs would have more men at their disposal once the trained staff come in, he added.
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Mangalore, 24 August 2011: A fish technologist has designed a portable insulated fish-hold from old, discarded refrigerators to store fresh fish without using power. It is a less expensive way to keep fish fresh longer, Sudhakar N.S., professor and head of the Department of Fish Processing Technology, College of Fisheries, Mangalore, who has designed the fish-hold, has said.

The fish-hold is a fridge cleaned of all accessories and has its door on top. It is modified into a box with insulation on four sides with the door for loading and unloading.

It can be used by fishermen, fresh fish traders, and vendors to keep fish fresh, he said.

The fish-hold consumes less ice, chills faster, and keeps fish fresh longer, said Mr. Sudhakar.

While 100 kg of fish requires 100 kg of ice, the fish-hold uses 50 kg of ice for the same quantity of fish.

Because of the PUF insulation, the ice melts slowly at 25 per cent. 100 kg of ice turns into water after three days.

“The aim is to keep the fish at 0 degree Centigrade,” he said. The fish temperature should be reduced to zero degrees as soon as possible.

The fish-hold comes as a box, and as a cart (with wheels and a handle), it comes in three different sizes. A fish-hold of a 300 L fridge would store 250 kg of fish, that of 170 L would hold 120 kg of fish, and of 150 L would store 110 kg of fish.

Fish could be arranged based on species, size. It had detachable compartments to suit the quantity and size of fish and drains less water, Mr. Sudhakar said.

Similar insulated plastic boxes available commercially cost Rs.1,800 (for 50 kg capacity), to Rs.4,150 (150 kg). Though the fridges do not come in corresponding capacities, an old fridge sold by scrap dealers costs Rs. 750. It takes Rs.100 to modify it, he said.

Patent

He may patent the fish-hold after adding a thermometer and timer, which would tell the vendor how fresh the fish is. Meanwhile, T.K. Manjunath, Principal, Yenepoya School, said two students from the school had taken up the integration of the thermometer and timer into the fish-hold as part of a research project.

The box can be used by fishermen, fishing boats, fish markets, and street fish vendors.

Hotels, canteens, ice cream vendors, and hospitals too could use it.

One could store milk, bottled water, meat, well-packaged poultry, flowers, fruits, vaccine and drugs.

Shankar K.M., Dean, Fisheries, said once it was commercially viable, some entrepreneur must come forward to collect the discarded fridges from the scrap dealers.
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SERENE: The Manjalpaade stream near Moodshedde railway level crossing in Mangalore. Photo: R. Eswarraj

‘Manjalpaade' flows by the Moodushedde railway level crossing

For all its lack of grandeur, there is a charm in the simplicity of Manjalpaade, a quaint stream that flows by the Moodushedde railway level crossing here.

A narrow road from near the Government Women's Polytechnic in Bondel winds down the edge of the hillside leading to a bridge under which the stream flows. Gaps in the wild jungle afford an impressive view of the surrounding low hills – a sight that is more alluring during the monsoon. The stream is just ahead of the railway level crossing.

Black rocks – called paade in Tulu or bande-kallu in Kannada – line the edges of the flowing water and some of them have enough space to sit on. To one side of the flowing stream is a large lake-like water body, where this correspondent saw a man try his luck with a fishing rod. The fishing rod was however, nothing but a stick with a string and bait attached to it. Whether or not he managed to bait a fish is anybody's guess.

On a typical Sunday, small groups of men and boys were to be found at the spot, some of them having come to wash a vehicle. Like many such picnic spots in the city, the stream too is closed to women due to its isolation and inaccessibility.

Inspiration

The quiet place, however, has the distinction of having inspired a song written by a local band for the victims of the Mangalore air crash. Lead dinger of Shifting Scales Austyn Goveas said that when the band was hanging out at the waterfall last July, they wrote the song, aided, if not exactly inspired by the serenity of the place. They played “Live the Day”, dedicated to the victims of the crash, once in Mangalore and at the Freedom Jam in Bangalore.

‘Manjal'

A phone call to the president of the Tulu Sahitya Academy Palthady Ramakrishna Achar asking about the meaning of the name “Manjalpaade” turned up many interesting stories about the word manjal.

He said that there is a place called Manjalpade in Panja, a village in Sullia taluk. Villagers had narrated a story about folk heroes Koti and Chennayya, who had hunted a pig in the area. They had used turmeric as a means to clean the meat, because of which the rock turned yellow.

A place called Manjalpadpu just outside Puttur town was named so because turmeric used to be grown there in a field, he said.

In folk traditions, the word manjal is an indication of sadness, Mr. Achar said, as it is linked to nature: when plants die, they turn yellow.

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Mangalore-based Corporation Bank has bagged the Best Manpower Efficiency Award in Public Sector Bank Category, instituted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Indian Banks' Association (IBA). The bank's Chairman and Managing Director Ramnath Pradeep received the award from Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan at FICCI – IBA Conference in Mumbai on Thursday.
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MANGALORE: This coastal city is waiting to roll out the red carpet for Salil Shetty, son of the soil. Salil is the first Indian and first person from Mangalore, in particular, to be appointed secretary general, Amnesty International (AI), when he arrives here on August 30.

AI is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in more than 150 countries and territories who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights.
Leading citizens of the city have come together under the stewardship of Kodialguthu Ajith Kumar Rai Maladi to set up the Salil Shetty Felicitation Committee and Salil will be accorded public felicitation at Sri Ramakrishna School ground at Bunts Hostel on Tuesday. B M Hegde, former vice-chancellor, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, will deliver the felicitation address and Ajith Kumar Rai Maladi preside over the function.

Salil Shetty is the eighth secretary general of AI and took over the reigns of the human rights watchdog body in July. The organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its campaign against torture and the United Nations prize in the field of human rights. Salil is the organization's chief political advisor, strategist and spokesperson and takes AI's campaign to the highest level of governments across the world, United Nations and business.

Since joining Amnesty International, Salil has been vocal in supporting the peoples uprising for human rights in the Middle East and North Africa. In December 2010, he led Amnesty International's show of solidarity in Oslo for the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo calling on the Chinese authorities to improve their human rights record. In September 2010, he represented Amnesty International at the United Nation's general assembly.

Salil is the only son of eminent journalist V T Rajashekar Shetty and Hemalatha Shetty, who hail from this part of the country. His great grandfather P S Thimmappa Shetty was the district collector of South Kanara district. Ajith Kumar Rai stated that it is matter of pride for people of the coastal district to honour Salil, who has brought name and fame to his home town by heading one of the most renowned Human Rights NGOs of the world.
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Mangalore, Aug 26: The 4th National Consumer Fair organised by NCF, a pioneer in organising exhibitions and trade fairs across India for over three decades now, was inaugurated by district in-charge minister Krishna J Palemar at the Karavali Utsav Ground, Mangala Stadium, on Friday August 26.

Gautham A K Nayar, managing director, NCF, Anand of ‘Udayavani’, former mayor Shankar Bhat, and Bhaskar Amtoor were present at the inaugural ceremony.
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There are a large number of stalls at the exhibition offering huge discounts on automobiles, furniture, home appliances, kitchen appliances, fashion, footwear, toys, stationery, Ayurvedic products, health care items, handicrafts, books, food, and many others.

The exhibition also has over 25 amusement rides including an artificial boating lake, dragon train, Italian ‘tora-tora’, jumping frog, dashing cars, aeroplanes, ‘Titanic’, and carousels.

For the first time in Mangalore the exhibition has a large boating pool for visitors, children’s boating pool, latest amusement rides from Europe including a ‘Rodeo Bull’ and ‘Gyroscope’ for adventurous people.

The exhibition is open from 4 pm to 9 pm all days of the week. Entry tickets are Rs 25 per person. Students are provided concessional rates with special package tickets available at the entrance. The exhibition will be here for another 40 days.
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MANGALORE: Mangalore city police commissionerate is slowly, but surely getting the look of city-centric policing, a good 19 months after it was declared the fourth such policing unit in Karnataka. Critical to urban centric policing is staffing, both at the constabulary as well at the higher levels. Being a nascent policing unit, the process of getting requisite clearances for appointment of personnel has taken its time, and is being tackled one step at a time.

Presently, the city police has a strength of around 1,700 personnel right from commissioner of police to the ministerial staff. This number is expected to cross 2,000 once the policing unit gets sanction for recruitment of personnel on civil side (especially at constabulary level), city armed reserve (CAR), wireless and ministerial staff. Initial projection was for 1,558 personnel on civil side, 748 in CAR, 35 in wireless section and 69 in ministerial side.

While the process of appointment of 200 police constables, delayed on account of technical issues, is presently underway, the city police got a shot in the arm when the state government appointed police inspectors (PIs) to key police stations including Mulki, Bajpe, Mangalore Rural and Urwa police stations. This leaves the posts of PIs vacant in Barke, Kavoor, Konaje and traffic police stations respectively and are expected to be filled up at the earliest.

City police chief Seemanth Kumar Singh told TOI that the appointment of PIs to these key stations would ensure effective policing at the station level. A senior police official heading the police station would bring with them their experience, he said, adding they would play more of a supervisory role, distributing the workload equally among the two police sub-inspectors who would focus on crime, as well the most important law and order duties.

Hitherto, a PI in certain instances was designated circle police inspector and given overall supervisory role of three to four police stations. In the commissionerate set up, PIs will focus on more important heinous cases exclusively pertaining to their police station and allow junior colleagues to handle routine duties, he said. Policing would also be more focused in that PIs would have more men at their disposal once the trained staff come in, he added.
TOI (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/19-months-on-police-commissionerate-makes-good-progress/articleshow/9780254.cms)

The exhibition gave a chance to the children to exhibit their paintings and inspire others to take up art as well.
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This Independence Day, five young and budding painters in Mangalore got an opportunity to exhibit their paintings along with professional artists. Each young artist was allowed to exhibit five of his or her paintings. Ranging from watercolour, acrylic and decorative to miniature landscapes, the exhibition had many art lovers appreciating them at the Officers' Club, Hat Hill. The event was organised in association with Officers' Club and Association of British Scholars, Mangalore Chapter.

Five children were given the opportunity, taking into consideration their achievements at the national and, in a few cases, international levels. Ganesh Somayaji, artist and secretary of Artists Combine, said that the idea was to encourage children's talent as well as to inspire art lovers, many of whom were children, to take up art. “The exhibits also helped educate viewers in appreciating art. Hopefully, it would become an annual feature,” he said.

First timers

Shubham R Varnekar, of Std IX from St Aloysius High School, who exhibited water colour and acrylic paintings, said that it was his first experience in exhibiting his paintings in a professional set-up. He said it felt like a dream when he was complimented for his paintings by Mr Somayaji.

Neha B, of Std X from Canara High School, Urwa, had exhibited decorative and miniature paintings. She said that she always wanted to meet artist Chitra Mitra in person, which came true at the event.

All the young artists were happy about having been able to enter the professional arena. However, they all said they intended to continue painting as hobby. Ananya, of Std VIII from St Theresa's High School, said she would love to continue painting though her main interest was in the field of Astrophysics. For Vaibhav Shenoy, student of Std IX from Canara High School Main, and Akshay Raj, of Std X from St Aloysius High School, appreciation at the exhibition was a great motivator.
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Within a month, unorganised workers in 50 villages in Bantwal and Mangalore taluks will likely be able to enrol for Social Benefit Schemes of all government departments, Assistant Labour Commissioner Venkatesh A. Shindihatti told The Hindu.

Dakshina Kannada was one of the five districts where the Workers' Facilitation Centres will be set up on pilot basis, under an agreement with the Government of Karnataka signed with GTZ, a German enterprise in 2008. The other districts are Bangalore, Bellary, Mysore, and Gulbarga.

Under the scheme, workers in beedi, construction, agarbathi-rolling, garment, agriculture sectors, and domestic workers would be able to enrol for social benefits of all government departments under one roof. These include the New Pension Scheme, widow pension, old age pension, disability pension, Sandhya Suraksha, Stree Shakti Groups, and the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana.

Accordingly, Mr. Shindihatti said 25 villages each in Bantwal and Mangalore taluks had been selected by the Department of Labour. These centres would function from the gram panchayats and would have one community facilitator each. The appointments to half of these posts were likely to be completed by the first week of September, after which around 10 centres would open in each taluk. The community facilitator would be tasked with carrying out a survey of unorganised workers in the local area, and registering eligible workers with the Labour Department. The facilitator would be responsible for ensuring that they get all the benefits due to them from various government departments. They would collect and forward applications to the department concerned after inspecting them.

The facilitator would have knowledge of all government social schemes spread across departments such as labour, education, social welfare, backward classes and minorities, tribal welfare, disability, and so on, he said.
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There is a large number of Beedi workers in DK, This has helped in the uplift of lower class people, When the Man from family go for daily wage labor work, Housewives in home along with the women of neighborhood sit together and tie Beedis which are majorly exported. They earn around 150-250 per week, which is good enough for housewives.
The major Beedi companies are

PVS beedis
Bharath Beedis
30 brand beedis
Ganesh Beedis
etc

^^
What about upgradation of ESI Hospital at Shivabaugh?

In Bengaluru they are upgrading two more ESI Hospitals. Mysuru, Kalburgi everywhere ESI hospitals are getting upgraded.

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MANGALORE: Indians in the United Kingdom celebrate Ganesha Chaturthi every year. But what makes the festival at Wrexham in North Wales different is that the Ganesha idol installed at Wrexham Memorial Hall is made by 81-year-old sculptor Prabhakar Rao, from Mangalore.

Summilan Cultural Association, a union of about 50 Indian families living in North Wales, Chester and Wirral regions, have been celebrating the festival from last year.
Association treasurer Srisha Shenoy, who is a consultant anaesthetic in Wrexham, comes to Mangalore every year -- to be part of Ganesha Chaturthi celebrations and to take a Ganesha idol made by Prabhakar Rao to the UK.

Speaking to TOI, Dr Srisha said that the main objective of organizing the festival in the UK is to promote harmony and Indian culture.

Srisha prefers buying the idol only from Prabhakar Rao because like Rao he too grew up in Mannagudda. "When I was a child, I used to spend a lot of time watching Prabhakar Rao and his brothers making the Ganesha idols. I used to be part of the Ganesha Chaturthi celebrations here. So, I thought it would be right to take the idol from here," he said.

Srisha will leave for the UK on September 9, and the festival will be held on September 11 at Wrexham Memorial Hall at Bodhyfryd in Wrexham. The deputy mayor of North Wales is expected to participate.
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Four new tube-lights and a “Sintex” water tank. “This is all that has come following the visit of district in-charge Minister J. Krishna Palemar here in June. We continue to be in the same abysmal conditions and carry out our trade,” says Jalajakshi Putran, who sells fish at the fish market near State Bank Circle.

“Every two months people from the media come, take pictures and speak with us. But no change is seen. ” Ms. Putran said.

Waste water gets stagnated at several points in the market. Fisher women continue to suffer from infections because of the unhygienic conditions. “Cats and dogs die here almost daily. We have been removing them while cleaning our place in the morning,” said a Mogaveera woman. The only relief has been the availability of water in the “Sintex” water tank. “But no arrangement has been made to make this water available to all traders,” she said. It was on June 28, Mr. Palemar visited the fish market. Fisherwomen then expressed their ire over the conditions of the market and also rued that Mr. Palemar was not attending to their problems. Following this visit, Mr. Palemar had directed the Mangalore City Corporation authorities to take steps at the earliest the steps for maintaining hygiene and also provide water facility.

When pointed to his assurance, Mr. Palemar told The Hindu on Tuesday that measures were being taken to relocate traders to a modern fish market. On the present condition of fish market, Mr. Palemar said: “Steps will be taken after the rain subsides.”

Vasudev Boloor, president of the Mangalore Mogaveera Cooperative Society, said a year ago the Government proposed to construct a modern fish market at the Old Fish Market. Mr. Boloor said the condition of market in Mangalore were similar to those in Udupi and Karwar.
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SPRINTING The 19-year-old Rebecca Jose has set her eyes on excelling in the 2016 Olympics at Rio
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Short and sprightly Rebecca Jose is racing against time and herself. Over six years in the scene, this 19-year-old is now slowly but surely blossoming into a high class sprinter on the State and National stage.

“My mother Omana (Jose) made me run short sprints at a tender age. Having been a sprinter in her prime, she wanted me to follow in the same footsteps – and I did it with gritty determination,” said Rebecca soon after her sprint ‘double' at the State athletics championship (under 20) recently at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bangalore.

Both her mother Omana, and father K.V Joseph were 100m, 200m and 400m runners at the school and college level in Kerala, with her mother even being called the ‘Payannur Pony' during her peak.

Bogged down by bad health

Rebecca, who is a part of the Indian camp for sprinters now, missed out on the South Zone championships at Hyderabad earlier this month, due to, first, a hamstring strain and then a bout of viral that has eaten into a lot of her training schedule. “I want to get back on my feet soon, and be fit and confident for the Open nationals (to be held at Kolkata from September 9).”

Part of the 4x100m relay teams that won the gold at the Youth Commonwealth Games in Pune in the year 2008, she participated at the 19th Commonwealth Games in Delhi, and won the bronze at the Guangzhou Asian Games.

This zestful girl from Sulia district, near Mangalore in Dakshina Kannada, is brimming with enthusiasm. “I have set my eyes on the 2016 Olympic Games… and God willing will make every Indian proud,” says Rebecca. Asked if her short stature is a disadvantage in sprints, pat comes the answer: “No.” Recently, she spoke to Olympian and former sensation Ashwini Nachappa: “You need to have the heart and the confidence…not the height,” Rebecca reveals she told her. “Being part of the Indian team and wearing the tri-colour around you is a feeling that is simply irresistible,” she says.

Rebecca has a personal best of 11.3 seconds (hand) and 12.47 s (electronic) in the 100 m, achieved at the Sree Kanteerava Stadiumtracks over the last two years. From the Rotary School in Sulia, where she studied from LKG to Class 7 and won most of the 50m and 100m she participated in, to the Sports School in Kudige, Rebecca just knew to run at the whistle or the gun-shot. “It was only after getting into the Sports School in Kudige and coming under the wings of coach Vasanth Kumar there that I learnt the nuances of sprinting,” she says.

“The basics of running and the foundation for what I'm today is largely thanks to Vasanth sir. I was training with him for three years and made my early breakthroughs at the district and state meets. After my 10th, I moved to Bangalore's Vidyavahini Junior College and came to coach K. Ravi, who is more technical and did a lot of repetitive training schedules which made me stronger. Today at the Indian camp I train under coach Tarun Kumar and I'm enjoying every bit of it. Whatever I have learnt over the years is making me a much-improved sprinter.”

Nirupama Sunderraj is her best friend and fiercest competitor at both the State and National levels, she admits.

“We have had quite a few tense and teasing battles on the tracks. Out of about 15 or so head-to-head competitions we have had, I must have won about four or five times… but it was fun. She, being tall and athletic, most often sprinted ahead… and the few times I beat her I was both elated and sorry for her. Now with Nirupama away in the US for training and academics, I am confident of winning at home. (She beat Nirupama in the last meet).”

“At the National level, in the open category we are about eight of us doing the same time…and it is very difficult to predict a winner. We are all at the Indian camp here at SAI South Centre and and we enjoy a good time at meets and practice sessions.”

With the scary episodes of dope and drug abuse hitting Indian athletics hard, mother Omana says: “God has given her some talent. With her hard work and sincere effort she has to achieve her goals.”
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Though Right to Information (RTI) Act has emerged as a boon to the general public by placing them an opportunity to learn various aspects that take place behind the screens in the government set up, Mangaloreans are yet to pick up the effective implementation of RTI.
When compared to the metro cities, where RTI has taken the form of a campaign, Mangalore which too is growing in a rapid speed with majority of literacy population, visibly lacks RTI activists or organisations promoting RTI activism.

However, a city based NGO Whitewhistle, which has been set up by a youth to bring awareness about RTI among the urban population has certainly emerged as a ray of hope. Founded by an RTI activist Harsha Raj Gatty, who is a former MCMS student of Aloysius College and presently working with Mphasis, Whitewhistle has shouldered the responsibility of raising the number of whistle blowers in Mangalore. Whitewhistle was launched on May 2, 2011 with the motto of educating the people about their fundamental right to seek information from the bureaucracy and simultaneously alert the officials or the public servants of their duty to respond.

Speaking to City Herald, Harsha Raj Gatty said that his interest towards RTI activism simply drove him to start an organisation which would enable people to file RTIs and spread the awareness of the same. “In Whitewhistle, we not only file RTI forms for the needy, but also teach them the method to file the form. With RTI being mostly used as a device by the elite class, our major concern lies in sensitising the poor and middle class about the significance of RTI. Though the response we have received in the last four months has been positive, we are expecting more public participation,” he says.

RTI classes
Under Whitewhistle, Gatty and a team of his associates from various fields have been engaging classes to the school children, college students and public servants in the city limits. He started the class for school children during a summer camp organised by the Centre for Interested Learning (CIL), where, as many as 20 students filed RTI seeking answers to their questions. In the recent development, Gatty and his team was invited by the City Police Commissioner to engage RTI class for the cops.

Sharing his experience of handling RTI classes to the police on August 24, Harsha Raj Gatty said that it was a very different experience to inform about RTI to the men in uniform. “Though I had expected 10-15 police to take part in the class, I was surprised to see 40 and odd police including seniors and juniors eager to know the pros and cons of RTI,” he said. According to Gatty, there is an equal necessity to bring RTI awareness among applicants as well as respondents.

As he puts it, “many a times, applicants as well as respondents who are ignorant about their accountability towards the system, turn arrogant which results in enmity between the two. When the issue is taken in a personal level, it is likely to harm the applicant.” Keeping in mind the same, Whitewhistle has also taken up the agenda of ‘Risk Mitigation,’ where the distance between the applicant and respondent is well maintained. An RTI activist is expected to face risk if he has filed several RTI applications to the same office, he opines. In such a case, Whitewhistle files the RTI through one of its members so that the one who seeks information is kept away from danger. “If the issue is of serious concern, then we can manage to pull outsiders to file RTI from far away places,” he informed.

Why ‘Whitewhistle’?
According to Gatty, they have named the organisation ‘Whitewhistle’ because the information they seek from the offices is in white paper and the applicants are nothing but whistle blowers. Under Whitewhistle, the members file RTI in public interest on their own expenses or they file RTI based on others demand at a cost of Rs 20. If an individual approaches Whitewhistle to file RTI with business motive, then a fee of Rs 150 is collected, informed Gatty.

The organisation will become full-fledged and would be a registered trust in the month of December. One of the immediate plans of the organisation is to engage class for the prisoners in Mangalore Sub Jail. For more information, one can log into Facebook as the Whitewhistle is quite active on Facebook.
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Belthangady, September 2: Funds have been released, but work hasn’t yet started. This is the scenario in Belthangady Taluk. Statistics reveal a grim reality of lethargic officials, especially from the engineering department of the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat.

Out of the 85 projects for the year 2008-09, under the development fund of Belthangady MLA K Vasantha Bangera, nearly 20 are still pending. 18 projects have not yet been initiated.

Among 19 projects allotted for the year 2009-10; only one has been started. No projects, for which funds have been allotted in the year 2010-11, have been started. Even blue prints are not ready for a majority of them.

Rs 18 crore by the government has been sanctioned for one of the widely anticipated projects in the district-the Rural Water Supply Project. However, the project is progressing at a very slow pace. The project was scheduled to be completed last economic year.

Some of the projects allotted for the previous rainy season, has not been initiated even though the rainy season for this year is coming to an end.

Even though there have been several complaints from the public for the lengthy delay in the completion of the projects, officials are yet to respond to the calls of the public.
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When you think of camel, you think of desert because camel was, and still is, the mainstay of transport in the desert sand.
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When you think of camel, you think of desert because camel was, and still is, the mainstay of transport in the desert sand. That is why camel is called ship of the desert. In India, Rajasthan, host to the vast Thar desert, is considered the desert state. So, camels in India are associated with Rajasthan. Camels outside Rajasthan, and in western parts of Gujarat, are mainly seen in the touring circuses.

Mangaloreans have an exposure to a slice of Rajasthan life through three camels camping at Panambur beach for eight months in a year for the last 10 years. For four months in a year, the minders of the camels stable their camels in Bangalore and go back to their mulk near Jaipur.

The trio of camel minders at Panambur are Sachin and Raja, both in their late teens, and Govind, 30 years, married with five children living in Rajasthan. They speak in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam while dealing with beach visitors and camel-riding prospects.

They mind three camels tethered next to their tent accommodation close to the high water mark of the beach. The camels are named Badal, 25 years, Chandni, 20 years, both females, and Sharook, 15 years.

The camel-minding trio travel by land from Rajasthan via Bangalore and Mysore before pitching their tent on Panambur beach. They feed the camels with green leaves sourced from the surrounding areas and goor (jaggery) from the market. Their expense to feed and maintain the three camels comes to about Rs 3,000 per month.

In return, the camels help their minders to earn about Rs 20,000 to Rs 30,000 a month, depending on the season, and week-ends being money-spinners. Children are charged Rs 20 per a short, 3-minute, ride while the charge for adults is Rs 50. Four children or two adults can ride the camel at one go.

The camels are topped by pillows and covered with colourful Rajasthani rasais (thin quilt) to make the seating comfortable. Still, the riders experience bumps as, apparently, camels have no shock absorbers. There is a platform with stairs to climb to the ramp and comfortably sit on, or alight from, the camels.

Come June and annual monsoons to Mangalore, the camel-minding trio head to Rajasthan via Bangalore where they mothball the camels in the care of the city-based Rajasthani camel keepers.

According to the trio, Bangalore hosts about 200 camels catering to various precincts of the city – and earning a livelihood giving joy rides, specially to children. These camels and their minders provide a slice of Rajasthan to their eager riders without having to wait for a circus to come to town – which, of course, does not provide riding experience.

To conclude on a lighter note, camels are a talking point in bars and taverns, with a teaser quote displayed there reading: “A camel can go without a drink for a fortnight. But, who wants to be a camel?”
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A huge lake, three streams, three hillocks (mountains), dense forest, hundreds and thousands of birds and very less vehicular traffic — perhaps, its difficult to find so many aspects in one place.
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But Guruvayana Kere, located by the side of Mangalore - Ujire road (or Guruvayana Kere - Moodbidre road, to be precise) is a serene and calm place which anybody would love to spend some time.

The unique aspect of this place is that, hardly any visitors go there, for two reasons: Not many people from City know about the place and on the other hand, for localites, there is nothing new in the place as the Kere is part and parcel of their life. Legend has it that there was a person by name Guruvayya who constructed a barrage (bund) to store water that comes from three hillocks, at a place where the Kere (tank or lake) is situated at present.

As Guruvayya constructed the Kere, it is known as Guruvayyana Kere or Guruvayana Kere, which is spread across 17 acres and helps irrigate about 60 to 70 acres of paddy fields even to this day.

The excess water flows through a stream to join River Nethravathi flowing nearby.
Speaking to City Herald, Nagarika Seva Trust President Somnath Nayak, going down memory lane, said that there was a ‘chatra’ by the side of the Kere and people who used to carry commodities (through bullock carts) to Bantwal or Mangalore from Belthangady or nearby areas, were taking rest in the chatra for some time, before continuing their journey. However, the chatra no longer exists.

Tourism spot
Though Parisaraasakthara Okkuta former convenor Vittal Rao had submitted a memorandum through Panchayat to the auhotities concerned, to develop the Guruvayana Kere into a tourism spot when Shalini Goel was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat (ZP) and Veerappa Moily was the chief minister, nothing has been done till date.

In the memorandum, Rao had appealed to start boating facilities and to set up a makeshift arrangement in the middle of the tank (lake) made of bamboo, so that the visitors can go to that spot in boat and return. He had also appealed to acquire the 3.5 acre dense forest in the vicinity where thousands of birds, mostly cranes, take rest, thus converting the piece of land as a natural bird sanctuary. And also to desilt the lake, but nothing has been done till date.

By and large, the lake is very clean as there are no waste is let into the lake. Though a few vehicles are cleaned in the lake, the continuous flow of water helps maintain the lake clean.

When contacted, Zilla Panchayat Executive Engineer Satyanarayana said that plans are on the anvil to develop 9 lakes in Belthangady taluk and Guruvayana Kere is one among them.
The development works at the lake would be taken up at a cost of Rs 50 lakh, once the monsoon is over. The lake is expected to wear a new look by March - April 2012.

The work to be taken up include desilting of the lake, construction of a waste weir and repair of distribution canal. At a time when tourism is the buzzword, the development of the natural lake would be a feather in the cap of district, opined a visitor to the lake.
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With technology and modernisation, many items on our kitchen shelf or in our living rooms may have been replaced with the ones in trend.
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But, the items which have been handed to us by our ancestors and silently lying in one of the house corners have unknowingly become a part of our culture and identity. When many dispose them away as junk, the World Konkani Centre (WKC) in Mangalore has created an exclusive ‘World Konkani Heritage Museum’ for these items, hence entrapping the age old saga, helping the person to know his cultural identity.

The museum which epitomizes the essence of Konkani life, culture and tradition has various artifacts, equipment, tools, agricultural implements, hunting tools, kitchen utensils and other paraphernalia used by the Konkani people.

Speaking to City Herald, WKC Assistant Director of Research Gurudath Bantwalkar reveals that the museum came into being since the WKC inauguration in January 2009. The museum donated by Corporation Bank has been dedicated to its founder Khan Bahadur Haji Abdulla Haji Kasim Saheb Bahadur.

Most of the items in the museum have been donated and majority of the donated collection belongs to WKC Vice President Raghunath Shet who with many items has also donated a ‘Bailaa Gadi’ (Bullock cart) which belonged to a Konkani trader from Calicut in the 17th century. Trading window of a Bhandasaal (business place), a boat belonging to the Kharvi community, traditional furniture, a showcase with ‘Gumatts’ (traditional Konkani percussion instrument) and a huge collection of utensils donated by Social Worker Malathi Kamath are found here.

Apart from these, an old printing press captures the attention of the audience. Bantwalkar reveals that the first Konkani drama to be printed was “Chandrahas Natak” written by Bolanthur Krishna Prabhu.

This drama was printed by this particular printing machine and hence is a very important antique for the Konkani Community. The machine aging more than a century was earlier in Victoria Mudhrashaala, also owned by Bolanthur Krishna Prabhu, says Bantwalkar.

Along with the collection, the ambience of the museum also plays a key role and WKC has touched upon this detail with the doors and windows of the museum matching those of the traditional Konkani homes. A touch of the ‘Kaavi Kala’ motifs on the walls will give the audience a perfect Konkani experience.

Future Plans

WKC centre will host a photography expo .on “Temples of Goa” in January 2012. A photographer has been hired for this assignment. The expo will be held in Car Street and later the photographs will be shifted to the WKC museum.

There are also plans to display boards carrying the history of Konkani speaking people who are spread across various regions. A numismatic museum will also come up in one of the WKC towers. The collection has been donated by Former Additional Secretary in the Union Home Ministry P D Shenoy.

Hall of Fame

WKC also hosts a World Konkani Hall of Fame (Vishwa Konkani Keerti Mandir) a shrine dedicated to great Konkani men and women who have rendered commendable service aimed at the betterment of the society in various fields such as art, folklore, literature, education, science, technology, banking, politics and administration etc. There are more than 100 hand painted portraits of these great stalwarts.

“In case, we don’t conserve these items which are related to our identity today, the next generation will never come to know about our rich culture, practices and lifestyle. To keep the tradition and culture alive the museum has been trying to collect antiques from different parts of the country and from different Konkani speaking communities so as to preserve them for posterity by using scientific methods of preserving them.

The foundation has been making all efforts to collect as many things as possible reflecting diverse and unique Konkani culture,” says WKC President Basti Vaman Shenoy to City Herald.
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MANGALORE: M V Venkatesh, 2009 batch IAS officer, took charge as assistant commissioner, Mangalore revenue sub-division on Monday. This is his first posting after completing the 2-year probationary period. Venkatesh is a resident of Mahadevapura in Nelamangala taluk of Bangalore rural district. He succeeds Prabhuling Kavalikatti, who has been promoted to KAS senior grade scale and is awaiting posting.
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Karnataka State Cooperative Apex Bank has chosen Dakshina Kannada District Central Cooperative Bank, Mangalore, for its State Apex Bank Award for 2009-10. Bank president M.N. Rajendra Kumar will receive the award at the annual general meeting of the Apex Bank in Bangalore on September 10. The Apex Bank has chosen the bank here for the award considering its overall performance. The bank here has been chosen for the State award for the 13th consecutive year, a release said. — Special Correspondent
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An inside view of the house of the founder president of Corporation Bank in Udupi.
MANGALORE, SEPT. 8:
Showcasing old coins to the present day financial inclusion initiatives of the Government will be the focus area for improving the founder's house of Corporation Bank in Udupi, according to Mr Ramnath Pradeep, Chairman and Managing Director of the bank.

The bank has converted the house of the founder president of the bank, Mr Haji Abdullah Saheb, into a heritage museum.

FINANCIAL TEMPLE

Showcasing the heritage museum to a group of journalists from Mangalore at Udupi on Thursday, Mr Pradeep said aim of the bank is to make the heritage museum the ‘financial temple' for the people visiting the temple town of Udupi. The heritage museum will be developed as a tourist spot for the pilgrims visiting the town, he said.

The heritage museum provides information about banking history since its inception in 1906. The bank was started in the house of Haji Abdullah Saheb with a capital of Rs 5,000 in the form of a ‘nidhi' on March 12, 1906, in the name of Canara Banking Corporation Udipi Ltd. Stating that the museum has a good collection of coins from across the world, Mr Pradeep said the bank wants to improve the coin collection in the museum. It will approach coin collectors in this regard, he said.

COIN COLLECTION

The employee of the bank, Mr Radhakrishna Kumble, who has put 25 years of his coin collection on display at the museum, said around 1,360 coins of different periods and different countries are on display at the museum. The current market value of these coins will be around Rs 42 lakh, he said. Mr Pradeep said the museum showcases the evolution of banking, banking instruments, records, bank notes and currency.

Solar lighting system has been used for the electrification of the entire building, he said.

Apart from the heritage museum, the building also has a financial research centre, financial inclusion resource centre, and financial literacy and credit counselling centre.

The financial inclusion resource centre showcases the initiatives taken by Union Government and RBI on allied products and services, he added.
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MLAs enquire about qualification of panchayat members
Members of the Bihar Legislative Committee on Zilla Parishad and Panchayati Raj expressed their happiness over the state of pachayats in Karnataka, especially in terms of tax collection system.

Ten of the 18-member committee were in Mangalore on Thursday. They are touring different parts of the country to study the panchayat raj system. On Thursday, they met the Chief Executive Officer of the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat K.N. Vijay Prakash.

“We want to imbibe the best practices and strengthen the gram panchayat system in Bihar. We want to reach to the level you have reached,” said MLA Anandi Prasad Yadav, who heads the 10-member team.

The members have visited Bangalore and Mysore. They will be visiting panchayats in Kerala and Goa.

Various issues

The MLAs were curious about tax collection system in the gram panchayats.

Dr. Prakash told the MLAs that the 203 gram panchayats in Dakshina Kannada were collecting 93 per cent tax. To this, MLA Bhumendra Narayan Singh said: “This is good. Our tax collection has been poor.” The MLAs were happy to know about education status of the panchayat members. “The members here represent in a better way. I found this while interacting with panchayat members in Mysore,” Mr. Yadav said. They expressed their satisfaction over the water supply system and roads in the district.

The committee members were informed about the Total Sanitation Campaign in all the 203 gram panchayats for which Nirmal Gram Puraskars had been awarded. They were informed about the e-governance at the panchayats and about the campaign to ban plastics. The members enquired about the education system in the district, especially about deemed universities.

The MLAs praised the steps taken by the Bihar Government against corruption. MLA Motilal Prasad said the government had enacted a law that prescribed time limit for providing services such as birth certificate, caste certificate, and land records. “The defaulters will be asked to pay fine ranging from Rs. 250 to Rs. 5,000 a day,” he said.

Mr. Prasad spoke about the recent legislation of his government which allowed seizure of assets of officials that were found to be disproportionate to their income.
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Going in a Proper Direction - Police Booth Opens at Nantoor

A new police booth at Nantoor, tenth in the city, was inaugurated by corporator Roopa Bangera on Wednesday, September 14.

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Addressing the mediapersons after the inauguration city police commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh said that the booth aims to ensure that the police personnel can do their duty more efficiently. It also helps civilians to identify where police is and benefit from such booths when necessary.

He said that the civilians can also lodge complaints at such booths.

Each of the new booths costing Rs one lakh has a toilet in it, which would help the police personnel. “Such booths have been placed at all major junctions. We will evaluate the popularity of such booths and install more of them if necessary”, he said.

The booths will not operate 24 hours a day and will only be accessible when police personnel are on beat, he revealed.

Roopa Bangera addressing the mediapersons said that the police booth would be of greater significance especially near the highway. This would help in maintaining law and order in the region, she said.

Corporator D K Ashok Kumar and police officials of the region were present during the inauguration.

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Dakshina Kannada and Udupi chess talents have performed well in the just-concluded inter-school State chess championship held in Shimoga. The event, conducted under the aegis of United Karantaka Chess Association and Chess Federation of India, was held from September 7 to 10.

Shabdhik Varma of Dharmasthala and Pangal Gopalkrishna Nayak, class 8 student of Canara High School, Urwa, clinched the top two honours in the Under-14 boys' category. While Shabdik finished with 9 points after 10 rounds, Gopalakrishna's final tally was 8.5 points.

Nikjhilesh M. Holla also of Dakshina Kannada with 8 points was placed sixth. As many as 143 students took part in this category.

In the Under-14 girls category, Andria L. D'Souza, a student of St. Agnes English School, was the topper with 8.5 points after 10 rounds. Reesha Shenoy of Carmel English School was placed 4th with eight points. Paschami Shenoy K. of Dakshina Kannada and Vradhika Shetty of Udupi were placed seventh and eighth respectively while Amruta of Udupi district was placed 10th. There were 139 participants in this event.

In the Under-17 girls' category, Shalon Joanne Pais and Mahima Khandige (of St. Agnes Girls High School) and Chrisel Ann Pais were placed third, fifth, and seventh respectively among the 141 contestants. Udupi's Shreya B. was placed eighth.
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The city-based hobby group of kite flyers, Team Mangalore, has been officially invited to “Nilahare Wasanthaya 2011” (All-Island Kite Festival) to be held at Negombo Beach Park, Sri Lanka, on September 17 and 18.

Members of Team Mangalore Sarvesh Rao, Dinesh Holla, B. Sathish Rao, and Shashank Shetty will participate in this event.

The best kite teams from countries around the world are invited to participate in this event. Team Mangalore will represent India in the festival, coordinator of the team Sarvesh Rao said in a press release.

This festival will showcase some of the best kites flown by flyers of international fame around the world. Earlier, Team Mangalore participated in various international kite festivals held in Canada, the U.K., Thailand, and France. Recently it participated in the international kite festival held in South Korea and Qatar and its new creation “Pushpaka Vimana” received accolades from the people of South Korea and France, the release said.

The team will showcase its kites which include “Kathakkali”, the Limca Book of Record holder for the largest kite in India, “Yakshagana”, “Charlie”, “Owl”, “Pushpaka Vimana”, “Bird”, “Bat series”, and “Bharatnatya”.
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Saniah and Sonia of Yenepoya School with the fish-hold

While a professor from the Fisheries College in Bolar, Mangalore, has designed a fish-hold from discarded refrigerators, two students have taken up value addition to the fish-hold as part of their school project.

Saniah and Sonia, eighth standard students of Yenepoya School, are helping to create a rating system that will tell the fish vendor how fresh the fish is.

Based on information provided by Sudhakar N.S., professor and head of the Department of Fish Processing Technology, College of Fisheries, Mangalore, who has designed the fish-hold, and T.K. Manjunath, Principal, Yenepoya School, they have added a time-temperature feature to the fish-hold using a thermometer and timer.

Sonia said they had created a chart to tell the vendor if the fish was edible or not, based on numbers. She said adding visuals to communicate the same idea could be implemented.

Saniah said: “We have given marks according to factors that lead to spoilage as given by Prof. Sudhakar.” The rating system is based on factors such as colour of the eyes of the fish, its gills, how the fish skin feels, odour (should smell of seaweed when fresh and bad when it is spoiling) and “belly burst”.

Mr. Manjunath said that he was looking for a project so that the students could participate in the Initiative for Research and Innovation in Science (IRIS) competition at the national level. When he chanced to hear about the fish-hold project, he told the students about it.
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It is facing a severe shortage of workers
Beedi contractors in Dakshina Kannada say that the Mangalore beedi industry may survive only for three more years. “It will go the Mangalore tiles way,” according to J. Ibrahim, General Secretary, Karnataka State Beedi Contractors' Federation. He was addressing presspersons on the sidelines of a press meet here on Monday.

The industry is facing a severe crunch of workers, according to beedi contractors, who source raw material from companies and get them rolled into beedis by workers, who are usually women.

“Education has made workers move away from this work,” said Haji Jaleel Puttur, treasurer of the federation. Despite demand and availability of raw material, the industry was struggling as workers had taken up other occupations. This year, 60 per cent of the workers left the industry, he added.

The younger generation had moved away from beedi-rolling to restaurant business or other jobs. “Our children don't want to join this industry,” Mr. Ibrahim said. “Women, who used to roll beedis, prefer other work. They are now employed in ice-cream parlours,” he added.

The district had two lakh permanent beedi workers. Of them, 90 per cent were women.

Another 60,000 workers worked on a temporary basis around the year. Now, all the workers were aged above 50. In the past couple of years, nobody aged less than 30 joined the industry, Mr. Jaleel Puttur said.

On an average, a worker rolled 1,000 beedis a day. Depending on help at home from children and others, some workers rolled up to 2,000 beedis a day. While the minimum wage specified by the government was Rs. 103, a beedi worker would get Rs. 93 for rolling 1,000 beedis, they said.

The district has 64 depots (collecting centres where contractors take raw material and tobacco from beedi companies). There are 300 to 500 “branches”, which are shops of contractors, where workers collect raw material and return the rolled beedis.

Mohammed Rafi, working president of the federation, said the contractors got Rs. 6.90 from beedi companies for 1,000 beedis. The contractors now wanted Rs. 10 from the companies for the same number of beedis. “Earlier, production was good. Now, the quantity produced is lesser and we have to pay ourselves for transport,” Mr. Ibrahim said.

The district produces 50 crore beedis a week as against double that quantity produced three years ago. Ten per cent of production of beedis from Dakshina Kannada is exported to West Asia, the U.S., Singapore, Japan and Indonesia.

The raw material for beedis come from outside the State. While “tendu” leaves come from Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan, tobacco comes from Nippani and Ahmedabad.

The most flavoursome leaves are from Chhattisgarh and the finest tobacco is from Nippani.

One kg of tobacco can be used to roll 5,600 beedis. A pack of 25 beedis is sold for Rs. 9, according to Mr. Ibrahim.
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MANGALORE: Records are meant to be broken and this is one record that augurs well for this regional language film industry that is slowly yet surely finding its feet. When Vijaykumar Kodialbail produced Oriyarodari Asal crossed 105 days at Jyothi Talkies and Big Cinemas, it had bettered the mark of 105-days set by Richard Castelino's 'Bangar Patler' in 1994. The film as on Thursday had clocked 112-days, with Vijaykumar now eying 150-days.

Kodialbail, who has put off his Mumbai and Gulf release, planned initially for first week of October by a few weeks, taking part in a meet-the-press organised by Dakshina Kannada district working journalists union here on Thursday said, "The film could have easily crossed one year had it been single theatre affair like Bangar Patler." The film was released simultaneously in Moodbidri, and Puttur, besides here, where it ran for 77-days.

Hinting that pressure from Kannada film industry is immense, Vijaykumar said this was one of the prime reasons for the film to be removed from theatres in Moodbidri, Puttur, and Udupi and even Bangalore despite not having a 'debt sheet'. It was easily a top grocer for the theatre in Moodbidri and the film has given me returns after paying the theatre rent, he says, adding that he has so far recovered nearly 80 per cent of the Rs 1 crore investment.

S Rajashekar, director with several Kannada hits to his credit opined that the robust script and hand-picked actors tailor-made for each role in the film is what has contributed to its success. Noting his lack of knowledge of Tulu did not prove to be a handicap, Rajashekar said, "It is a more emotive affair and technique based on proper scheduling on the understanding of the script." And, Rajashekar has plans to direct more Tulu films if producers approach him.

N D Padil, a central character in the film averred that the strong publicity and marketing pitch launched by Vijaykumar too contributed to success of the film. In a honest appreciation, Vijaykumar said contemporary Tulu films such as 'Dever' and 'Kanchilda Baale' were better films, but grossly under-marketed. Asserting that his best is yet to come, Vijaykumar said the lesson learnt here will spur him to give a better product at lower investment next time.
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From a barren hillock to an educational hub to a nerve centre of approximately Rs 3000-crore Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG), the saga of success of the Pais of Manipal is unparalleled in the field of education in India.

The road to success, however, was not an easy one. The challenge was in surmounting every hurdle that came its way, including the infamous bitter family feud and continuing the legacy founded by Dr TMA Pai in the 1950’s. In a fitting recognition of the contributions of MEMG Chairman Dr Ramdas Pai, the son and successor of the architect of modern Manipal Dr TMA Pai, to the field of education, was conferred with the prestigious Padma Bhushan award by the President of India, in April this year. Known to be a down-to-earth plain-speaking gentleman Ramdas Pai says, "The award is a reward to the entire institution and not just an individual accomplishment. Basically I think it is not for me, it is for the collective efforts of our employees who are primarily responsible for my getting the award."

Continuing the legacy of his father, Ramdas Pai has been instrumental in making Manipal a force to reckon with, metamorphosing it into a leading player in the healthcare and education sector in the country. If TMA Pai was the architect of modern Manipal it was Dr Ramdas Pai who took it across the oceans and mountains. In the last three decades under his astute stewardship the name of Manipal has bloomed and spread its fragrance all over the country and beyond the boundaries of India with its presence in countries like Malaysia, Nepal, UAE and Antigua. Plans are on the anvil to make a foray into countries like Sri Lanka and parts of Africa which also offers tremendous scope for expansion. He, along with his son Ranjan Pai, the CEO of MEMG has succeeded in expanding the single Manipal Hospital in Bangalore in 1991 into a multi-location chain of hospitals across seven cities in South India. It is a feather in the cap of Dr Ramdas Pai that he runs Hospitals that are rated amongst the best in the country.
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Untouched by Success

Despite such amaranthine profundity Dr Ramdas Pai comes across as an unassuming, straightforward and determined person, who knows his onions well and who is quite comfortable in handling success and the recognition that has come his way. He goes by certain values he has imbibed and also by the power of ratiocination in his capacity as the Chairman of MEMG, Chancellor of Manipal University and also as the Pro Chancellor the Sikkim Manipal University.

Even the messy family feud that attracted unwanted public attention resulting in the intervention of the late Dhirubhai Ambani, without any success, failed to deter him from his cherished goals. After the group splintered Ramdas Pai who got the educational institutions and hospitals as his share of the family property built MEMG into a powerhouse of education and healthcare along with his son Dr Ranjan Pai and the result of their combined efforts is there for everyone to see. His vision put into active action has paid rich dividends and Manipal has emerged as a brand in the field of education and healthcare keeping in tune with the Manipal philosophy of ‘education knows no boundaries’.

At 76, he shows no sign of slackening pace in his work though his family business is run professionally in the last few years. The group recently achieved a coup of sort by roping in former Infosys CFO and H R whiz T V Mohandas Pai, to join as the Chairman of Manipal Universal Learning (MUL), one of the two wings of MEMG.

Dr Ramdas Pai is not going to bask in the laurels but is bent upon scaling greater heights by creating world class healthcare and educational infrastructure. He harbours no political ambitions unlike his cousin late T A Pai, saying "in politics you require to be corrupt and politics is not my cup of tea. My father used to say politicians are like electricity. So don’t go near politicians but make use of them" and he is abiding by this sage advice. Sounding a word of caution he says "don’t take the public for granted and be transparent in your activities. Even the government must come out with rules which are transparent. I hope the Anna Hazare movement will put many corrupt people behind bars".

Visionary in Action

Born on September 17, 1935, Dr Ramdas Pai, got his medical graduation degree from Karnataka University and a postgraduate degree in Hospital Administration from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Naturally he began his career as Hospital Administrator at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal in 1961 at a young age. Along with his father he went on to develop various institutions of education and healthcare by the effulgence of his public virtues, hard work and perseverance. And the rest, as the cliché goes, is history. The conferment of the Deemed University status to the Manipal institutions by the government in 1993 was a turning point for the history of the institution. Dr Pai has been the catalyst of change that opened up to the Indian students the vistas of education, providing avenues to the youngsters to showcase their talent and providing best of facilities in education and health case. Above all, Dr Pai showed to the world what a small coastal town like Manipal could attain if it is guided by a visionary and in a congenial atmosphere.

Needless to say today Manipal group has become the epicenter of about 53 educational institutions in the medical group having an enrolment of about 32,000 students from more than 51 countries of the world. It has become an ideal educational hub that churns out thousands of well trained graduates year after year. It goes to the credit of this institute that ¼ of all practicing doctors in Malaysia are alumni of Manipal.

Ask him what brings him utmost satisfaction and he is quick to say "my greatest satisfaction is building this institution and also providing an opportunity for many people to come up in life", he reminisces. And what he has to say about the incident of KMC locking the horns with Kasturba Medical College, which had even recommended de-recognition to the college despite figuring among India’s top 10 medical colleges recently? Dr Ramdas Pai says MCI had an issue with regard to KMC’s decision to provide large quota to NRI’s which was resolved subsequently. However, according to information percolating from other sources it is said that the now disgraced Ex President of MCI Dr Ketan Desai, arrested for accepting bribery, was seeking bribe and Dr Ramdas Pai was equally unwavering in his decision not to pay a single rupee to him which led to the controversy of de-recognition. Being a man of principles, Ramdas says he did not want to go in an unethical way in any dealings. "Ketan Desaid used to give admissions only after taking money. We did not give any money and that was the issue. He wanted to derecognize citing reasons of staff shortage, lack of infrastructure and other minutia details but did not succeed".
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Bequeathing Credibility

At this juncture I just asked him about the famous incident of his refusing medical seat for his own son Ranjan Pai for his failing to qualify the cut off percentage of 80% fixed by the board of trustees. Ranjan Pai had secured 72% marks which did not qualify him for getting a seat at KMC. But Ramdas stood his ground and did not bent the rule backward to accommodate his son and finally Ranjan did complete his 1st year MBBS in Dharwad Medical College. Dr Ramdas Pai did face some displeasure from his wife Sudha who took the cudgels on behalf of her son. But Ramdas Pai convinced Ranjan about the prudence of sticking by his principles telling him "You are inheriting my biggest asset – credibility. Ensure that you preserve it". That convinced Ranjan and he succeeded in convincing his mother and hence the issue did not cause much heartburn in the family. Though Ramdas Pai sometimes tells this to politicians who try to cajole him in giving a seat they fail to understand it and continue to pester him to give seats to their kith and kin.

Dwelling on the issue of the family feud that went on for 4 years in full public glare finally resulting in the split, Ramdas Pai says his cousin wanted to interfere in the allotment of medical seats which means Manipal would have become like any other college sacrificing its quality and reputation for the sake of money. Critics have been quick to point out that the model of capitation first introduced by KMC in 1953 is tantamount to selling degrees. However, he dismisses the criticism saying the system has provided them with an opportunity to create good infrastructure, faculty and provide quality education. At the same time he says unlike other institutions Manipal group of Institutions do not do any under-hand dealings. "We strictly go by the rules and regulations and go by the not-for-profit outlook", Ramdas Pai states.

Another achievement to the credit of Dr Ramdas Pai is that he has put the name of Manipal in the history of our legal system when in 2002 an 11-bench Supreme Court headed by then Chief Justice B N Kirpal in the now famous TMA Pai Foundation and Others vs the State of Karnataka and others pronounced a landmark judgment. The judgment provided that the state cannot interfere if the admission was on merit and a reasonable fee was being charged.

Going for PPP

Dr Ramdas Pai has also been a fervent proponent of public private partnership (PPP) in the field of higher education and healthcare. This policy paved the way for setting up of the Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical and Technological Sciences in Sikkim. Though the group wanted to spread its tentacles in other parts of the country like Rajasthan and Orissa the UGC acted as the spoilsport by procrastinating on the issue of granting permission. In Orissa the government passed an ordinance to this effect and the group has plans to start its campus from next year. It has got invitation from the governments of Maharashtra and Gujarat also. Dr Pai says "in the next five years Manipal group will be an important player in any government sector. Today there are many Indians who are abroad and the purchasing power of many is much more than those in India. They are looking towards their mother country for educating their children for which they will be able to pay unlike in other countries where the cost is much higher. We can easily give them what they are looking for. Our objective is to provide quality education at a reasonable cost". The admissions to the institutions are on merit and Dr Pai does not interfere in admission matteRs The fee structure is clearly delineated and there is no scope for under-the-table dealings.

Dr Pais says the Manipal group goes by the system merit cum means and believes that those who are able to pay should pay. Giving an example of AIIM, he says according to a survey majority of the students who get admission in AIIMs belong to affluent sections of the society who can afford to pay. Manipal group therefore adheres to the policy of merit cum means. Apart from this Dr Pai has channelized his philanthropic activities through Manipal Foundation which pursues diverse developmental activities from offering scholarship to running unique maternal and child welfare homes for the rural population of the region. The ‘Manipal Arogya Card’ has been a trendsetter in this part of the country as far as health insurance scheme is concerned.

Work Goes on

He is shuttling between Manipal and Bangalore and other places where the group has its campuses. His two daughters Rakha and Shaila are settled. Son Dr Ranjan Pai has been instrumental in the corporatization and also ushering in professionalism apart from seeking new avenues of growth. Wife Sudha has played an equally stellar role in his achievements.

Dr Pai is the true personification of humanity, vision, charity, commitment to the society and to the people. He has traversed through a tough terrain but did not compromise on the principles which have been dearer to his heart and which guided him all through these years in his quest to create world-class health care and education. Dr Ramdas Pai has played an archetypal role in shaping and institutionalizing the model of inclusive growth as well as striving to create a special place for the country in the annals of history in education and health care.

One hopes he will be able bring more laurels to the country in the coming decade where new policies by the government are expected to explode in the field of education and healthcare.

He is celebrating his birthday on Saturday September 17, and let me wish him a very happy birthday.
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Next what i want is Manipal to have a state of art KSRTC busstand. Its a premier educational hub not only in Karnataka, Even for the whole country,

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Mangalore, Sept. 16:
After witnessing production of around 40 movies in Tulu language in the last four decades, the movie industry has shown a sudden interest for Tulu language.

Following the 100-day run of a recent Tulu movie – ‘Oriyardori Asal' (‘one is smarter than other') – more than eight Tulu titles have already been registered by different people at the Film Chamber of Commerce.

This was revealed by Mr Vijayakumar Kodialbail, playwright, who conceptualised ‘Oriyardori Asal'.

People attribute the recent success to the brand value of the title of the movie and unconventional marketing strategies.

The movie crossed 100 days recently both in single screen and multiplex formats in Mangalore recently.

Mr Shivadhwaja, who directed Tulu movie — ‘Gaggara', which won the national film award for best regional language film two years ago – told Business Line that he did his movie with a limited budget, as there was not much investment in Tulu industry then.

However, the recent success of ‘Oriyardori Asal' has shown the potential of Tulu to the industry. Mr Kodialbail said that three Tulu movies crossed the 100-day mark in the last 40 years.

The last 100-day run in Tulu movie industry was ‘Bangar Patler' in 1993. Based on a drama written and staged by Mr Kodialbail 24 years ago (which ran more than 1,000 shows along coastal Karnataka, Mumbai and Gulf countries), ‘Oriyardori Asal' is a story of three families living in the same compound and the happenings in their every day life.

Highlighting the need for brand value and innovative marketing strategies in local language movies, Mr Daison Vaz, who started a discussion thread on ‘Oriyardori Asal' in a Kannada movie blog, said the brand value of the title played a major role.

He said the brand value of the title was of interest for two generation of viewers. One set of viewers had seen the drama version in their youth and wanted to watch the movie version.

The younger generation had only heard about the title and had not seen the drama. Added to this, the marketing strategy for the movie began more than 40 days before the actual release. Hoardings with teaser advertisements at important locations in Mangalore city and other towns created curiosity among Tulu-speaking people about the movie. Mr Shivadhwaja, who is also a Kannada actor and producer, said the initial day crowd pulling to the movie was sustained in the later weeks also through innovative publicity in local media on an every day basis. Added to this, the concept was based on a super hit drama of yesteryears.

The Future

On the future of Tulu industry, Mr Kodialbail said that the producers were now ready to invest in Tulu films. The number of registration of titles is an indication of this.

Mr Shivadhwaj said that those who plan to invest should be cautious. They should not spoil the investment potential just by making a movie to make money.

Quality and content should be given priority, he said. Mr Vaz said that Tulu market is small compared with other languages. In such a situation, a release once in six months would be ideal.

Since many of the old Tulu drama titles still have good market, many people would like to see them on bigger screen in the movie format.

These factors should provide a good push for Tulu movie industry, he added.
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Mangalore needs a state of the art bus stand first

Mangalore, Sep 19: Dr K Harish Kumar, hitherto working as assistant commissioner, Puttur, has been posted as the new commissioner of the local city corporation. He will take charge from Dr K N Vijay Prakash, who was posted as the chief executive officer of Dakshina Kannada zilla panchayat some time back, and has been discharging duties in both these posts since then.

At the same time, K A Dayanand, who was functioning as sub-divisional officer in Chikmagalur, has been appointed as the additional deputy commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district. J R Lobo, principal of District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), has been posted as the member secretary of Pilikula Regional Science Centre Society. In the meanwhile, Vijayakumari Shenoy, joint commissioner of the city corporation, has been posted as the principal of DIET.

Dr K Harish Kumar, an officer of Karnataka Administrative Services cadre (1999 batch), hails from Udupi district. He had been provided with training in Mangalore, Bangalore, and Mysore. He had been functioning in the current post since 2008. Before appearing for KAS examination and doing exceeding well, he had worked as lecturer for a few years.
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NEW ARRIVALS: Mahesh Sharma, a merchant, with tender jack fruits, which arrived from Piriyapatna to Central Market in Mangalore on Wednesday.

If the mention of Halasina Gujje (tender jackfruit) kindles your taste buds, chances are that you get nostalgic about the delicacies you relished in May last. That was the time when the gujje season ended. Normally you would have to wait till January for a new season to start. But in recent years, consignments of the vegetable start coming from Piriyapatna from September. So, go on, and make that delicious gujje sambar and those fried items from it, right away.

Tender jackfruits are back at the city's Central Market now after a gap of three months. Their fresh arrival season started on Wednesday with M. Mahesh Sharma, a wholesale merchant at the market, getting the first consignment of 300 kg ‘gujjes' from Piriyapatna near Mysore.

According to him, the whole consignment was sold a few hours after its arrival at 6 a.m.

Ask merchants at the Central Market for those tender ‘gujjes' now. Many would guide you to Mr. Sharma as they said he was the only wholesale merchant who got it to the market from Piriyapatna.

“Local tender jackfruits arrive from January to May,” Mr. Sharma, told The Hindu . “Supply from Piriyapatna begins in September and lasts till February,” he said.

David D'Souza, another merchant, said that except for three months — between June and August — the Central Market supplied tender jackfruits to consumers for nine months.

A large number of jackfruit trees in Bala, Kalavaru, Kuttettur and Permude of Mangalore taluk were cut when a petrochemical major set up its industry and associated facilities. Major supplies from these villages were suddenly hit a decade ago.

Mr. Sharma alleged that pollution from this industry had resulted in delay in the flowering of jackfruit . He said that his allegation was based on his 20-year experience in the business.

He said that 10 years ago the market was getting local tender jackfruits from villages surrounding the industry in October. Now they were supplied in January because of delayed flowering.

The local halasina gujjes were supplied from Bajpe, Padubidri, Talapady and Manjeshwar in Kerala.

The merchant said the key consumers of tender jackfruit were hotels, caterers, and Gowda Saraswat Brahmins.

Price

The “gujjes” from Piriyapatna cost Rs. 40 a kg on Wednesday. Its price had come down up to Rs. 5 a kg in February. The prices of local “gujjes” when they arrived in market varied between Rs. 30 a kg and Rs. 5 a kg, he said.

Mr. Sharma said that his order for “gujjes” from Piriyapatna varied between 500 kg a day to 2,000 kg a day depending on demand during festivals.
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Coastal Karnataka Fishermen Action Committee has sought restriction on the number of boats allowed to operate from Fisheries Harbours at Bunder here and at the Malpe harbour near Udupi.

In a statement here, its general secretary Vasudev Boloor said that more and more boats were being added every year to the fleet without considering the carrying capacity of the harbour. The permission to build more boats should be disallowed till the fishing wharfs in the two harbours were expanded.

While the expansion at Malpe had begun, the tender for the Mangalore project had been withheld without giving any reasons, he said.

He has demanded that dredging of the bar-mouth had to be started at the earliest at Mangalore Fisheries Harbour as silt formation had been causing accidents leading to loss of lives. A Rs. 3 crore project in this regard had been pending for a long time, he said.

Suresh Kumar Ullal, Deputy Director, Department of Fisheries, said there was a government order that allowed addition of 100 boats every year.

The department had been following this order. About 1,200 boats were operating from the Bunder Harbour, including about 75 purse-seine boats.

However, sources in the department admitted that the Bunder harbour was overcrowded and addition of more boats was not advisable.

The Rs. 57-crore third phase project of the Harbour had been pending with the Chief Engineer, the Public Works Department, he said. The tender had been opened already and authorities concerned had recommended the choice of the lowest bidder already, he said.
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Kundapur, Sep 22: The benefits of solar energy have reached the remote village of Mavinakaru that lies amidst the dense forests of the Western Ghats range, in the limits of Kollur temple town, near here. Students who used to study with the help of kerosene lamps are now doing so with the help of bright light from solar table lamps.

This was made possible by Magsaysay Award winner Dr Harish Hande, managing director, Selco Solar Light Private Limited, due to his concern for rural students under the ‘Light for Education’ project in order to create a new ray of hope in their lives. It bears 90 percent of the cost while the locals can bear the remaining 10 percent. This project has been implemented in Mavinakaru School. The company had supplied solar lamps to 35 students including 12 who were studying in Mavinakaru Lower Primary School.
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Mavinakaru is a tiny village that lies 5 kms away from Kollur. There are 65 families, and a majority of them belong to scheduled tribes. The village lacks the most basic amenities such as roads, drinking water, electricity, and automobiles. Mavinakaru Lower Primary School is the sole hope for the students in the village. The students of this village walk miles together to pursue their studies at Kollur. Meanwhile, walking on dirt tracks in the dense forest is risky as they face threats from wild animals. The locals fully depend on Kollur for their daily needs.

Selco Solar Light Private Limited had chosen Mavinakaru and Halliberu villages in the taluk to implement their project. Light for Education aims at encouraging rural students to study and Mavinakaru is the first village where this has been implemented. It has provided solar table lamps to 35 students. Solar panels are installed at Mavinakaru School with provision to charge many smaller batteries. Charged batteries connected to the table lamp can last for 10 hours. The students will have to bring the charger when they come to school. The solar lamp not only helps students to study at home, but has also brought light to their remote village. Local social activist Ramesh Ganiga of Kollur has contributed 10 percent of the cost.

“It’s an ambitious project of Dr Hande, managing director of Selco Solar Light Private Limited,” says Shekar Shetty, Kundapur branch manager of Selco Solar. “It’s the vision of Dr Hande to encourage rural students. It’s an attempt to bring light to remote villages under the Light for Education project that has been implemented in the electricity deprived villages of Mavinakaru and Halliberu. The villagers and students are indeed joyous,” he added.

‘We have been teaching the students by coming to school, walking miles together for the past 10 years. There are no basic amenities in the village and we have maintained the grade of education. Light has come to Mavinakaru village because of Selco Solar and this will benefit many rural students in the locality. Progress is visible in the academic performance of students,” said school headmaster Babu.

“The solar lamp in the house has brought light to the families who are living in the dense forest. It’s a symbol of progress that we have witnessed after many years of Independence,” says local resident Nagaraj.
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This is exactly why i wanted to start this thread, I wanted to show what this undivided South Kanara district is... Event he remotest people enjoy more benefit than any other district..

Now i want to change the name of this thread is it possible.? I want not just to have "Mangalore", But some thing like Undivided Dakshina Kannda______

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This is exactly why i wanted to start this thread, I wanted to show what this undivided South Kanara district is... Event he remotest people enjoy more benefit than any other district..

Now i want to change the name of this thread is it possible.? I want not just to have "Mangalore", But some thing like Undivided Dakshina Kannda______

How about plain simple " Tulunadu"

How about plain simple " Tulunadu"

Thank you for Nice idea but how to change it..?

^^By keeping Mangalore + Tulunadu in the title, it helps in google search....Keep it as it is....Sounds better

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MANGALORE: Enrolment under Aadhaar project of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in Dakshina Kannada district will get underway on September 29.

District in-charge minister J Krishna Palemar will launch the project wherein 21-lakh odd residents of the district will be covered. Government of Karnataka, which is the registrar for the project, will set up 225 stations in locations that the district administration will decide.

D S Ravindran, CEO, Centre for e-Governance, Government of Karnataka, told reporters here on Friday the process of enrolment of citizens of Mysore division barring Mysore where the enrolment was taken up as a pilot project in October 2010, will get underway in a week's time. The fingerprints of all digits of the hand, iris scan and photographs of all those above 15 years will be taken and only photograph of those below 15 years will be taken, he said.

MOBILE CENTRES

The administration will also set up mobile Aadhaar enrolment centres to take care of those who are not able to come to the stations, Ravindran said, adding that permanent stations will be set up in the taluks at a later date.

These 225 stations spread across the five taluks will be distributed in such a manner that people can reach the nearest station with ease, he said, adding that the number of stations could be easily scaled up if the need for it arises.

Acknowledging concerns that citizens could run into teething problems in the initial days during the enrolment process, Ravindran said each enrolment process could take six to 12 minutes in case of adults and slightly longer in case of infants and children. Person behind each station can enrol a maximum of 50 persons each day, he said reminding that in Mysore, enrolments reached 100 per day as enrolling persons got accustomed to the process.

Once the enrolment process is complete based on set of documents produced, Ravindran said the unique id, a 12-digit randomly created number will be sent to the person concerned through speed post. The UIDAI in an amendment has empowered all MPs, and MLAs, and gazetted officers, gram panchayat presidents to give address proof in case of residents in their areas who do not have one. DC N S Channappa Gowda and officials were present.
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The showpiece event will be held at Kudroli temple and culminate in a grand procession


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DIVINE GRANDEUR: The idols of Durga Parameshwari, Nava Durga and Ganesha installed for Navaratri festival at Gokarnanatheshwara Temple at Kudroli in Mangalore. — File Photo: R. Eswarraj

Several temples in Mangalore and around are celebrating Dasara in their own way. Some, like the Kudroli temple, are going all out, whereas others carry out the celebrations in keeping with the tradition.

Member of the development committee of Shri Kshetra Gokarnanatha in Kudroli Harikrishna Bantwal said the temple had “set a record” as the 7-km stretch through the procession of Navadurge and Ganapati on October 6 is the only stretch to be illuminated.

New turn

Possibly the grandest affair in the city, the celebrations of the Kudroli temple this year have taken a new turn with Congress leader B. Janardhana Poojary, who in 1990 renovated the temple built by social reformer Narayana Guru, announcing that widows would be honoured in the programme.

Mr. Bantwal said priests from all castes would perform the homa as it was not possible for a single person to do it. However, he said that he could not be sure of the number of widows who would come .

‘Shemme pooje'

Meanwhile, Managing Trustee of the Mahatobhara Shree Mangala Devi temple Ramnath Hegde said the shine was one of the few which did the “Shemme pooje”, which is a puja of a special tree on which the Pandavas were believed to have hidden their weapons when they went into exile, he said. The temple organises a short procession of the presiding deity Mangala Devi and Ganapati near the temple.

Bappanadu Durga Parameshwari Temple in Mulky and Kateel Durgaparameshwari Temple do not have the practice of installing Sharada idols as is done in the Kudroli temple. Officials in both temples said they shrines had naturally formed “linga”, and therefore did not have the practice of installing the idol of a goddess and performing the “visarjana” ceremony.

According to Shripathi Bhat, priest at Bappanadu temple, the temple has a history of about 800 years. He said that for the Bappanadu temple, the Prasanna puja was the end of Dasara celebrations.

Apart from religious rituals, the temples attract numerous traders who set up stalls along the roads leading up to the places of worship, selling toys and other articles that people buy in a festive mood.

Most temples organise cultural programmes such as dance performances, Yakshagana, music recitals, and vocal recitals.

Manager at Annapoorneshwari temple in Kodyadka, Puttige village, Mr. Prasad said that there too, there was no Shobhayatre for the deity. Rather, on all nine days the “alankara” of Annapoorneshwari Devi is changed, and bhajans are sung. Around a thousand people are likely to visit the temple every day.
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The Navaratri in Mangalore is celebrated by Bengalis and Gujaratis in the traditional fashion. While the Bengalis celebrate the “pujas” with both Bengali and other people joining in, the latter prefer to keep the celebrations restricted to their community.

In Mangalore, the Bengalis had been celebrating the Durga puja for 28 years, said Asis Kumar Roy, Secretary, Pooja Committee of Shree Durga Pooja and Dasara Celebration Committee 2011 Mangalore.

This year, the Bengalis are celebrating Durga puja at the Hindi Prachar Bhavan. The “sthapana” (establishing) of the “murthis” (idols) is on October 2.

Five or six artists are currently working on creating the “murthis” for the puja in Lalbagh.

They are made in Mangalore by Bengali idol-makers, who come to the city a month in advance from Kolkata and Burdwan district. They travel to other places throughout coastal Karnataka. They visit places such as Shimoga and Kannur. The clay for the idols is sourced locally though for essentials, they do use clay that they bring from West Bengal. The “purohits” (priests) are from West Bengal who reach Mangalore on October 1.

The special “prasada” for the deities and the “prasada” for the people are prepared according to tradition. At the end of the pujas, the “visarjan” is done in Sulthan Bathery.

There are 300 to 400 Bengali-speaking people in Mangalore. All those who do not go to West Bengal for the pujas to Lalbagh, Mr. Roy said. It represents Gujaratis, Marwaris, Hindus, Christians, and Muslims. Though organised by Bengalis, it is not claimed as Bengali. It is “sarbajanin and baroyaari” (belonging to all and started by 12 friends). Over the past 28 years, the pujas had been organised at various places.

It has been held earlier in Palkhi Hall, and before that in the Scouts Hall, he said.

Gujaratis

The Gujaratis in the city celebrate the Navratri with the characteristic “garba” dance. A member of the Gujarati Samaj in Mangalore said the community had been celebrating Navaratri in the Gujarati fashion for 75 years in the city. There are 500 Gujarati families and at least 2,000 Gujarati speaking people in and around Mangalore, he said.

The festival is celebrated in the Gujarati School, in a traditional manner with “pujas”, “arati”, and a Gujarati food festival. The “garba” dance is very much part of the celebrations. It is held throughout Navaratri from 9.30 p.m. to midnight. The “garba” is special on “Sharad-Poonam”, which is the full moon night. About 15 teams, participate in the “garba”, he said.

Around 800 people attending the “pujas” in the beginning, but on Ashtami, 1,500 people attend.

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While the Tuluva culture is making inroads into Mysore, the charm of living in old Mysore area has permeated into the coastal region and a small group of settlers from Mysore have tried to spread the Mysore Dussehra festivities in Mangalore.

At least 125 families from old Mysore area, who have settled in Mangalore, have formed an organisation called ‘Nammavaru’ and has been holding Dussehra doll exhibition every year.

People from Mangalore have taken a liking to the dolls from Mysore.

“When we began a few years ago, we were apprehensive about the response. But last year, over 75,000 people visited our Dussehra doll exhibition and many have started their own collection and delightfully some of them have better collection too” said general secretary of ‘Nammavaru’ MS Gururaj. “Being away from Mysore for so many years has brought us closer to the culture of Mysore.

Every one of our members has collected so many dolls depicting, agriculture, dance, art, theatre, religion, nature, historic and mythological figures and vehicles and dolls of relics connected to Mysore,” he added.

“A special attraction is a large doll Mysore Palace, all these will be on display at the exhibition. But we are happy that the people from Karavali have accepted us and our culture with great reverence,” said Gururaj.
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In Mangalore, about18,000 people have enrolled for Aadhaar, the 12-digit unique identification (UID) number which the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is issuing, according to T.G. Naik, Superintendent of Post Offices, Mangalore Division of India Post.

Each day, in Mangalore, 450 to 500 people enrol for the Aadhaar card from eight post offices: Pandeshwar, Hampankatta, Kankanady, Kulshekar, Balmatta, Kodialbail, Ullal, and Bejai.

A post office employee said that people have to wait as there was no separate staff or counter to enrol people for Aadhaar.

Siddappa Shivalingappa Mutnal, Senior Post Master, Mangalore Head Post Office, Pandeshwar, said that existing staff is used for the Aadhaar work and they clear 50 to 60 applications each day. They spend one to one and a half hours in the morning to give coupons to those who want to enrol for Aadhaar. Documents to be brought by the public were displayed on a banner at the entrance of the post office, Mr Mutnal said.

The collection of data for Aadhaar had been given to a private party, who were working out of select post offices.

The documents (the application for Aadhaar and the records) were collected by the Department of Posts.
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Mangalore, Sep 28: Builder Ramesh Kumar and his wife Urmila Ramesh Kumar inaugurated the Mangalore Dasara at Kudroli Shri Gokarnanatha Temple by lighting the lamp set before the idols of the Nava Durgas and Goddess Sharada Devi on September 28 Wednesday.

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Prayers were first offered to Lord Ganesha, after which the organizing committee members carried the idols into the decorated hall and installed them. The idol of Goddess Sharada was taken in a procession and installed at 11:35 a.m.

The 10-day festival, which is to follow, will feature religious pomp and grandeur and will culminate in a grand Dasara procession, which will be taken out on Oct 6.

Addressing the gathering, Treasurer Padmaraj R. said that the organizing committee has arranged for leading artistes to perform during these days. Food will also be provided for devotees who arrive in the afternoon throughout the festival.

Committee President H. S. Sairam, Vice President Raghavendra Kuloor, Harikrishna Bantwal, and many others were also present.


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Mangalore, Sep 28, 2011 : The state tourism department, the DK district administration, and the Mangalore Association of Travel Agents jointly observed World Tourism Day at the Mangalore Airport today.

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Alok Mohan, the IGP of western range, inaugurated the event by lighting the lamp. He also welcomed the passengers who alighted from Kingfisher and Jet Airways with flowers and sweets.

Mangalore Association of Travel Agents President Roshan Pinto, Louis J. Pinto, Harish Kumar, Mangalore Airport Director M. R. Vasudeva, and Rohini of the information department also participated in the event.

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Mangalore, Sep 29: The Karnataka Tulu Academy will be organizing ‘Marnemida Minudana’, a literary and cultural extravaganza, co-ordinated by Academy member Bhaskar Rai Kukkuvalli as part of the ‘Navaratri Utsav’ at Women’s Pre-University College, Balmatta, at 2.30 pm on Saturday October 1.

Akhila Bharat Tulu Sammelan reception committee president and Savanoor Vidhyarashmi Group of Education Institutions’ correspondent K Sitaram Rai Savanoor will inaugurate the programme here on Saturday afternoon.

Academy president Paltady Ramakrishna Achar will preside over the programme.

Karnataka Kannada Sahitya Academy former president Harikrishna Punaroor will release ‘Madipu–55’, the quarterly bulletin of the Tulu Academy.

Kurmar Satsang Samiti convner Vasudev R Kottari will deliver a special lecture on Marnemida Madipu.

Women’s College principal Dr Tara Rao, Tulu theater artiste Vijay Kumar Kodialbail, Ullal Veera Rani Abbakka Utsav committee president Dinakar Ullal, Deralakatte Vidhyaratna English Medium School managing trustee K Ravindra Shetty Harekala, and entrepreneur Megina Malady Balakrishna Shetty will be the chief guests on the occasion.

Dasara poets’ session will be held on the same occasion, presided over by veteran poet and president of Gokarnanateshwar Co-operative Bank Attavar Shivanand Karkera. Poets Mohammed Baddur, Kudreppady Jagannat Alva, Yogish Kanchan Baikampady, Sadanand Suratkal, K Laxminarayan Rai Harekala, Dayanand Kattalsar, Arvind Bejai, Raghunat M Varkady, M J Rao, Edward Lobo Tokkottu, Roopakala Alva, Shobha Padmaraj, and Vidhya Vamanjoor will read their poetry.

A Tulu folk art and singing programme will be held as part of the entertainment programme.
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Mangalore, Sep 30: Infosys organized a workshop on leadership and personal effectiveness titled ‘Going Beyond’ for the city police officers, at the Infosys Mudipu campus here on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 27 and 28.

The one-and-a-half-day long workshop was inaugurated by Seemanth Kumar Singh, Mangalore city police commissioner. In his inaugural speech, Singh noted that in line with the vision of the Karnataka police, the Mangalore police are working towards being known as a ‘people friendly department’.

According to Singh, “Despite the hard work put in by the police officers, very often public sees them in poor light. Trainings such as these will enable the police officers to better engage with the public and also become a role model in terms of driving partnership with the public.’ Singh added, ‘While this is a good beginning, we still have a long way to go. We will analyze the success of the training and extend it to the next level.’

Gopikrishnan Konnanath, head of Infosys Mangalore Development Center, Infosys Ltd., said, “It is our privilege to assist the Mangalore Police Department on their journey to drive better public-police partnership. Police commissioner, Singh and his team have been very supportive in designing and delivery of the workshop and we hope that they will realize significant benefits through such sessions. We hope to continue our engagement with the Mangalore Police department as we go forward.”

The workshop focused on driving improvements for the city police, specifically in areas of internal operations, brand building, enhancing police-public partnership and adoption of IT for enhancing operations. As part of the workshop, Infosys managers also shared their experiences and best practices on people management and process adherence, while highlighting the importance of teamwork and effective communication.

The workshop received positive feedback from all participants. Infosys also organized team building activities, football matches and hiking inside the Infosys campus as part of the workshop.

As many as 20 senior officers from Mangalore Commisionerate participated in the workshop. The training program was jointly designed and developed by Infosys and commissioner of police, Mangalore.
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MANGALORE: More winged residents of the exotic variety have descended on Dr Shivaram Karanth Biological Park at Pilikula Nisargadhama near here. The park authorities have sourced these birds of Chinese origin from bird lovers who in turn had obtained them from exotic bird breeders. The new visitors include lady amherst's pheasant, yellow golden pheasant, and the ring necked pheasant - all of which are in pairs, a male and female.

All the birds are kept in the spacious new aviary complex, which Ananth Hegde Ashisara, chairman, Western Ghats Task Force inaugurated as part of the Wildlife Week Celebrations on Saturday.

Three more pairs of pheasants will join these pheasants shortly. The park authorities have plans to introduce water birds to give a more rounded dimension to the collection of birds, which in a span of three months has become one of the most visited sections of the park.

H Jayaprakash Bhandary, park director told mediapersons that the park was in the process of acquiring pairs of hippopotamus and bison's from the Mysore zoo. "The enclosures for these animals are ready. Steps have been taken to construct a new snake block for the benefit of visitors. The park also has a collection of different varieties of snakes including king cobra that were successfully bred in-house.

Earlier at the inauguration, J Krishna Palemar, minister for environment who is also the in-charge minister of the district, said that the state government had sanctioned Rs 43 lakh to meet the maintenance needs of the park for the next five-years.

"We have also given orders for the transfer of bisons and hippopotamus to the park," Palemar said, adding that the introduction of these new animals would certainly bring in more visitors to the park.
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The Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) will soon set up a welfare centre for elderly persons, former Commissioner and Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer K.N. Vijay Prakash said here on Saturday.

Participating in a programme organised to mark World Elders' Day by various departments, Mr. Vijay Prakash said that before he demitted office, a request had been sent to the Revenue Department of the MCC for 30 cents of land to set up a senior citizens welfare centre. Elderly persons could approach the centre for counselling and medical aid.
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Nammavaru has organised an exhibition of dolls at Sri Raghavendra Swamy Math, Car Street
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SPLENDID COLLECTION: Dolls exhibited at Raghavendra Matth in Mangalore on Monday by Nammavaru, an association of Brahmins from old Mysore region. At right is the Mangaladevi Temple which has been illuminated for the Navaratri festival.

Thousands of people visited well-decorated temples in and around Mangalore on Monday on the sixth day of Navarathri.

There were large crowds in front of Mangaladevi Temple, Sharada Temple in Chilimbi, Venkataramana Temple, Kadri Manjunatha Temple, Durga Parameshwari Temple in Kateel, and the Bappanadu temple, to name only a few.

Main streets of the city and the Mangalore City Corporation buildings were illuminated.

A highlight of the day was the beginning of a Dasara bombe (dolls) exhibition at the Nellikai Sri Raghavendra Temple near Car Street. Nammavaru, an organisation of members of Brahmin families from Old Mysore and neighbouring districts, has arranged the exhibition which will be on till Sunday.

Unique tradition

M.S. Gururaj of Nammavaru said the event was just to bring in a lot of families together.

“Unlike in Mysore, where bombes are exhibited in each house, the dolls here are from different houses. But we show our unity with such an exhibition. Each family member has contributed towards the exhibition which is getting popular every year,” he said.

A large number of dolls were arranged in steps with the “Pattada Gombe” (the dolls of the king and the queen), being placed in the top row. There was another arrangement of dolls around depiction of the Krishna Raja Sagar dam and the Brindavan Garden.

Srikanta Sharma, an artist from Mysore's Gombe Mane, had arranged dolls to depict “Vaikunta Loka”.\
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With the celebration in the air the children are all set to enjoy the festivities on road and at home.
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Huli Vesha: Part of the Navaratri Festival.

Dasara is in full swing and will go on till October 6. The festival, like any other festival, is a big draw among children in the Dakshina Kannada district nine nights (Navratri) and ten days.

Attractions

Back from school, the evenings are packed with activities. Participating in processions, temple festivities, fair-hopping, admiring the lighting and the various ‘veshas' (costumes), especially the ‘ Huli ' or ‘ Pili Vesha' , which is a tiger dance unique to the region.

Shruta Prasad, a student of Std IX, Nalanda High School, Mysore, who is on a holiday here in Dakshina Kannada, said that watching the Dasara procession is her favourite acivity during the festival.

“I enjoy the crowd and the celebratory mood in the air. The procession is very traditional and opulent in Mysore, unlike Mangalore where various tableaux with modern and contemporary issues are also on display,” she said.

When she is in her home town in Dakshina Kannada for Dasara, she said she also likes ‘Pili Vesha' where men wear paint themselves in tiger stripes and dance to the rhythm of the drums.

“In Mysore, I also love visiting fairs such as ‘ Aharaotsava ', the food festival,” she said. For Chaithanya Kedilaya, a student of Std V, Little Flower School, Puttur, it is ‘ Huli Vesha ' which is the main draw during Dasara.

“I am mesmerised by the way men rhythmically dance to drum beats. Drum beats keep me upbeat through the festival and for many days after.

I practise the rhythm that i have heard on the table at home annoying everyone at home,” he said. Bharathchandra, a student of Std II, Lourdes Central School, Mangalore, is a great fan of local ‘tigers'.

The tiger dance is the only reason that makes Dasara attractive, he said.

Sanjana Barvathaya, a student of Upper Kindergarten, St Theresa's School, Mangalore, though fascinated by the tiger dance, is also equally scared of the men donning the role. She said that the variety of tableaux, with themes conveying mythological stories, made attractive through colourful lighting and the grandeur of the procession that keeps her awake all night.
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MANGALORE: Naringana gram panchayat, which bagged the Nirmal Gram Puraskar of the central government in 2006-07, continued its saga of success. The village, which has been declared as the open defecation-free village, has launched another campaign to make it corrupt free. The gram panchayat and the Jana Shikshana Trust (JST) was successful in providing toilets for 1,087 houses in the village, which has a population of 5,630. Sheena Shetty, JST director and ombudsman for the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in the district, told TOI that the campaign to make the village corruption free has kicked off.

"Initially, all officials and people's representatives will be made to pledge that they will not encourage or be involved in any corrupt practices. They also will have to declare that giving or accepting a bribe is a sin. In the later stage, we will launch mass campaign to make all people in the village to take an oath against corruption," he added. Gram panchayat employee A K Nalini handed over the first pledge letter signed by her to MGNREGS ombudsman on the occasion. Gram panchayat president Ismail Meenamkodi formally declared the village as open defecation free village at a Gandhi Jayanti celebration held at Naringana near here on Sunday. District in-charge minister J Krishna Palemar, zilla panchayat president K T Shailaja Bhat and chief executive officer K N Vijayaprash were the guests.

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Aadhar centres have been opened in Urwa community hall, Mangalore City Corporation ward office in Katipalla, and MCC commercial complex in Kadri. A centre has been opened in the Office of the Deputy Commissioner.
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Mangalore Dasara is known as the poor man’s Dasara. It has no royal aura around it or government funding as in the case of its rich cousin — Mysore. Still, it is witnessed by over 4 lakh people and at least half of them participate in anna prasadam (mass feeding).

Thanks to the initiative taken by the Gokarnanatha Temple, Mangalore Dasara has become one of the main events in the state.

People in this region wait for the procession on Vijayadashami day.Devotees from areas like Udupi, Chikamagalur, Shimoga, Uttara Kannada and Kasargod in Kerala also arrive here to witness Dasara celebration.

The 10-km Mangalore Dasara procession passes through the city in a sedate pace. The procession arrives back in the temple in the evening.

This year, the procession had 45 tableaux, including the idols of Navadurgas - Shailaputri, Chandraghanta, Siddhidatri, Skandamata, Kalarathri, Mahagowri, Mahakali, Kathyayini, Brahmacharini, Kooshmandini.

Dance troupes from all over the state and some from neighbouring states performed in the procession. For the first time, the Mangalore Dasara had foreign visitors.
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A bronze statue of Jnanapeeta award winner Dr Shivaram Karanth,

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The first unit of the coal-based thermal power plant of Udupi Power Corporation Ltd (UPCL) at Yellur in Udupi district has stopped generating power since October 7 as it has been shutdown for annual maintenance.

Vice-president (Corporate Affairs) of UPCL K. Kishore Alva told The Hindu over the telephone on Saturday that the maintenance work would take at least a month, and the first unit would resume power generation in the first or second week of November. The capacity of the first unit was 600 MW.

The second unit with same capacity (600 MW) was ready. But the government had not installed 400 kV line to transmit power from it. Power from the first unit was being transmitted through 220 kV line. But a 220-kV line could transmit only 425 MW of power. “The government can lift power from the second unit if it wants to,” he said. Both the units of UPCL, which produced 600 MW each, were dependent on imported coal for power generation. The company was not facing any shortage of coal, Mr. Alva said.

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Dark days have already begun in DK.. over that soaring temperature..

Cane furniture is eco-friendly and gives a decent look to your interiors. There are four youth who have come all the way from Fatehpur Sikri to sell these produce to Mangaloreans, writes Naina J A

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Some of the modern home owners are going in for cane furniture as it gives an antique and natural look to the interiors. The lightweight cane and sturdy bamboo spells out both simplicity and comfort.

While most of the people love to relax on cosy cane furniture, there are four youth from Fatehpur Sikri near Agra making those perfect sets of furniture in front of Jeppu Seminary under a huge tree.

In an age of luxury furniture stores, these roadside cane furniture sellers sweat it out to eke out a living. The cacophony of the busy road combined with the sweltering heat of the summer sun only makes their job harder.

With a tree to sit under, it is only sheer determination that prompts people like Babloo and his three companions namely Dharmendra, Boodev Singh and Tinku to sell cane furniture on the streets of the city.

Speaking to City Herald, Babloo said: “We four go to different parts of India and sell our produce. There is good market for cane chairs and stools in Chennai and Kerala. After Deepavali, we will go to Chennai.”

The four youth are going places not just with bundle of canes, they carry bundle of dreams as well. Cane chairs are not only adorning gardens and drawing rooms of the huge bunglows but are also seen in pubs and bar counters.

They have round single seaters of various sizes. Single garden chairs with back rests. The expert hands of these youth make two chairs in one day. One requires atleast four hours to make a chair with back rests. While one can make atleast five small stools in a day, he says.

“Back in village, my villagers are either artisans involved in making cane furnitures or agriculturists. I have learnt this art from my parents. In our village, only males in the family carry out this profession,” he said and added: “I ventured into this profession four years ago after my intermediate. We purchase bundles of cane from Rajasthan.”

Asked about the weight they can withstand, he said they could easily take up to 200 kg. Babloo is married two months ago and will be leaving back to his native for Deepavali. After one month rest in his village, the four youth will once again start their journey to Chennai with the hopes of better deal.

Cermics
Dozens of beautifully painted vases and pots of numerous shapes, sizes and colours are being sold at the same spot by Babloo and his companions.

These painted ceramic articles have been brought to the city by Babloo and several others from Delhi. Some three-foot tall vases with floral patterns in red, yellow and blue are up for sale.

The ceramic products are sold between Rs 50 and Rs 800. Ceramic pots and wide bowls of different sizes are also available.
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Dark days have already begun in DK.. over that soaring temperature..

Didn't it rain yesterday ???

I was at the Kaapu light house, and I saw smoke coming out of the power plant :dunno:

Didn't it rain yesterday ???

I was at the Kaapu light house, and I saw smoke coming out of the power plant :dunno:

I was in Suratkal yesterday, Bit rained heavily in south Mangalore(Ullal-Konaje) and Belthabgady. But hardly there was any sowers in Suratkal, Except a little Drizzling

Endangered crocodiles, snakes and turtles

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Hissing king cobras
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Scaly marsh crocodiles.

Dr. Shivarama Karantha Biological Park at Pilikula has Gharial, a crocodile, which eats only fish. This is an endangered Indian species of crocodile, according to Scientific Officer of the park Jerald Vikram Lobo.

The crocodile, with elongated and narrow snout, is fed with 750 gm of fish daily. In addition, there are four marsh crocodiles. They are fed with meat and chicken thrice a week.

There are four turtle species, including the endangered Indian black turtle. Others are flap shell turtle, Indian star tortoise and the exotic red-eared turtle.

Except star tortoise, others are fed with meat and algae. Star tortoise eats vegetables and leaves.

Director of the park H.J. Bhandary said that the park had nine endangered herbivorous mouse deer and 40 black bucks. The park had 14 barking deer, 20 sambars and 40 spotted deer. Apart from green leaves, they are fed with horse gram, wheat brawn, and vegetables. The park has three elephants, two adults and a calf.

The park has venomous snakes such as hump nosed pit viper, king cobra, Indian cobra, Russel's viper, common krait, Malabar pit viper and saw scaled viper. There are 14 non-venomous snake species of which Whitaker's boa and mountain trinket snake is endemic in the Western Ghats.

P.L. Dharma, head of the Department of Political Science, Mangalore University, was one of the visitors to the park on Sunday.

He said the animals looked healthy and the park had been maintained well. Another feature at the park is that many animals have been adopted. Mr. Bhandary said the park was looking forward for more adoptions.
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Tigers roaming around at Dr. Shivarama Karanth Biological Park at Pilikula in Mangalore. Photo: H.S. Manjunath

Tigers, lions and panthers continue to be the cynosure of all eyes at Dr. Shivarama Karanth Biological Park which has completed 10 years' of its existence.

The park, which was opened on January 12, 2001 with a few animals, now has 550 mammals, and 80 reptile and bird species, according to its director H.J. Bhandary.

It is the only biological park in the State being managed by Pilikula Nisargadhama Society, a registered society, with a governing council approved by the Central Zoo Authority (CZA), a statutory body under the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for controlling zoos.

Mr. Bhandary said the CZA had listed the park under the category of major zoos. The primary objective of the park was to conserve and breed endangered species found in the Western Ghats. It also functioned as a rescue centre for orphaned animals. A recent addition of such an animal to the park was a two-month-old panther cub.

“The orphaned panther cub was rescued from near Bajpe. It is now in the rescue centre and is being hand fed. The cub will be reared in the park,'' Mr. Bhandary said.

The park has four male and three female tigers. The male tigers have been named as Raja, Vikram, Kumara and Kadamba. The tigresses have been named after the major rivers in the region — Sharavathi, Netravathi and Shambhavi. There are two male (Siri and Bharat) and two female (Sara and Victoria) lions in the park. The park has six panthers of which, three are females. Four panthers have been named as Shwetha, Karna, Chandu and Shankar.

Mr. Bhandary said that each tiger and lion was fed with 6 to 10 kg of meat daily except Sunday. Each panther was fed with 6 to 7 kg of meat daily except Sunday.

Scientific officer at the park Jerald Vikram Lobo said that the animals were subjected to health check-ups twice a day. In morning, while letting them out of the animal houses to display enclosures and in the evening, when they returned to the houses. They were fed late in the evening as they were nocturnal beasts. They were given de-worming tablets after stool test or once in three months. They were vaccinated once a year. Mr. Bhandary said that Sunday's starvation helped animals in digestion.

He said the carnivorous animals were fed late in the evening and the herbivorous during the day.
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The lone leopard cat.

A leopard cat, five toddy cats (the common palm civet), a civet cat (the Indian small civet), and a wild cat are among the feline members at the Pilikula Biological Park.

These cats have been rescued from some villages in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, according to H.J. Bhandary, Director of the park. He told The Hindu that the cats had been added to the park over the past five years. The leopard and civet cats were rare now owing to loss forest cover and poaching, he said. The leopard, as the name suggested, had spots all over its body. The civet cat was known for its musk, and the toddy cat was called so because it lived atop palmyra palms, Mr Bhandary said.

He said the cats lived for 16 to 20 years if they were kept in a zoo. They were fed with meat and eggs. Like other animals at the park, the cats were made to starve one day in a week, he added. The cats were dozing when The Hindu team visited the park. They would be active in the evening as they were nocturnal animals, Scientific Officer of the park Jerald Vikram Lobo said.

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African Grey Parrot

The Pilikula Biological Park has an impressive collection of birds. Of the Indian birds, there are black kites (eight), brahminy kite (one), barn owl (two), Indian great horned owl (one), rose-ringed parakeet (16), Alexandrine parakeet (one), Indian peacock (seven), Indian peafowl, according to Jerald Vikram Lobo, Scientific Officer of the park.

The exotic birds are greenwinged macaw (one), blue-gold macaw (one), emu (four), Galah cockatoo (one), citron cockatoo (one), channel-billed toucan (one), African grey (world's best talking parrot) (two), sun conure (one), budgerigars (10 to 15), turkey (four), guinea fowl (eight), cockatiel (eight), pheasants (three, including one each of ring-necked, golden-yellow and Lady Amherst).

The park also has the Congo African grey parrot, which makes up to 100 different calls. In three minutes, this correspondent heard five different calls. The bird lives in the forests of Congo and is kept as a pet. The two birds at the park make various calls, sounds and also imitate the calls of other birds. It is more active when it likes the weather, Mr. Lobo said. Some of the calls it makes are repeated, H.J. Bhandary, Director of the park, said.
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BANGALORE: Official power cuts are back to haunt the state after a gap of nearly a year. Bowing to pressure from various quarters, the state government on Monday, however, decided to spare residents of Bangalore city from load-shedding and reduce load-shedding hours in other urban cities.

As per the schedule released by energy minister Shobha Karandlaje on Monday, there will be no load-shedding in Bangalore city, while one-hour load shedding will be imposed in other urban areas including Mysore, Hubli-Dharwad and Mangalore between 6 pm and 10 pm as against two-hour load shedding planned earlier. The rural areas, however, have to deal with power cuts ranging between 4 and 6 hours daily.

''We are making all-out efforts from our side to ease power crisis in the wake of Telangana agitation. But the situation forced us to impose minimum load-shedding immediately,'' Karandlaje told reporters after chairing a high-level meeting with energy department officials.

Bangalore city residents still have to keep their fingers crossed, as the minister said: ''If the prevailing situation on power front continues for another one or two weeks, we may also be forced to extend the load-shedding hours and also bring Bangalore city under the schedule,'' she added.

She said the state is trying to make up for the shortfall in power supply by buying power from every source, but it is not available in sufficient quantity as the problem is prevalent across the country. ''Maximum power generation of 2000 MW is being done at various hydroelectric projects in the state. But in spite of all these measures, there is a shortfall due to which the load-shedding is introduced on temporary basis,'' she added.

On October 14, the minister said she will lead a delegation to meet the Union power and coal ministers to exert pressure on the Centre to allocate 500 mw from the unallocated share of central generating stations and also to supply an additional 10,000 tonnes of coal daily to overcome the crisis.
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Puttur: A new police outpost will come up at the village of Ishwaramangala in the taluk, located in the grey zone between Dakshina Kannada and Kasaragod districts. It will be affiliated to the rural police station at Sampya here.

The IGP's proposal for an outpost has been approved by the state government. It will be manned by an ASI, two HCs and six constables.

The outpost has been approved in view of the presence of a large cluster of villages like Nettanige Mudnur, Madnur, Koltige and Paduvannur and the communally sensitive pockets, as also to check the crime in the boundary villages of Paduvannur and others.
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Around 25 Indian students participated in the programme
They attended field trip, workshops on environment conservation
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Young enthusiasts: Alwyn Francis Antony and Albert Antony.

Two schoolchildren from Mangalore attended the Tunza International Children and Youth Conference on Environment, organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in cooperation with the Government of Indonesia from September 27 to October 1.

Albert Antony, a class 8 student of Sharada Vidyalaya and Alwyn Francis Antony, a student of class 4 from the same school (and Albert's younger brother) attended the conference.

The theme of the conference was “Reshaping our future through a green economy and sustainable development “Rio+20”. The conference reviewed the contribution of children to the International Year of Forests and how they could adopt environment-friendly lifestyles.

At the conference, the participating students went on a field trip to a forest and an observatory. They attended workshops on environment conservation. “We were told how we could reduce, recycle, and reuse. They taught us to use paper and jute bags instead of plastic,” said Albert.

He saw students from Patna, Bihar, making floor tiles from discarded tiles and broken bricks. “Some Indian students from Qatar showed how to conserve water from air-conditioners. The water can be reused for plants,” he said.

At the closing ceremony, he presented a dance, choreographed by him. It was set to the music of Jai Ho and Vande Mataram . At the end of the song, all the members of the Indian team joined in. Among the 25 Indian students participating were four from South India, one each from Visakhapatnam and Madurai, and two from Mangalore, he said. “I liked the workshops, they were fun, especially the action songs in English, French, and Spanish,” he said.

Albert said he learnt about the competition through Internet where he read about an organisation called Tarumitra (Friends of Trees, a students' movement that started in Patna to protect and promote a healthy environment), which selected him and his brother five months before the conference.

Alwyn was unable to participate as he was not well when he reached.
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Mangalore, Oct 13: The Mangalore University women's team has triumphed at the south zone inter-university hockey tournament held recently at Periyar University in Tamil Nadu.

This is the first time ever that the women's team of the University has reached this far.

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With this, the team has now qualified to play at the national level, during the all-India university hockey tournament to be played at VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, UP in the second week of February 2012.

On the way to the title, the team beat Andhra University 2-1, Anna University, Tirunelveli 6-1, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, 3-1, Mysore University 2-0 (QF) in the knockout stage.

In the league stage, it defeated Kerala University, Trivandrum 2-1, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore 4-2 and drew with Periyar University, Salem 0-0.

Saira Banu, Trupthi, Likitha Muthanna and Ponnamma were the star performers for the team.

Dr Gerald D'Souza was the coach and Sowmya T N the manager.
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MANGALORE : Though the festival of lights Diwali is celebrated all over the country for different reasons, in Dakshina Kannada or Tulu Naadu it is to welcome King Balindra, who was driven to the nether world by Vamana, an avatar of Lord Vishnu.

Folklorist Chinnappa Gowda says, Diwali celebrations here have a unique local flavour and a cultural touch not seen elsewhere in the state or country.

Tuluvas regard Bali Chakravarthi as Tulu Rajyada odeya (King of Tuluvas) and on Diwali Tuluvas light their homes to welcome King Bali to Tulu Naadu again, Gowda notes.

He also says that Diwali regarded as Tulu Parba here is probably is the precursor for all festivities to commence after the June month. The celebrations end during the Hattanavadi or Pattanaje, which is the tenth day of Vrishabha Masa in June. Final celebration of the year will be performed during this period and on that day 'Yakshagana Mela' (folk play team) stops their wandering for playing mythological dramas until the beginning of next year, which is during Deepavali.

Another aspect is respect for live stock on the third day of the festivities here. Tulu folklorist Vaman Nandavar says Diwali is chiefly regarded as farmers' festival and live stock is given its share of respect during the festivities. Their cows are decorated, offered arathis and are fed with sweets, rice and fruits.

The precursor to this celebration here has been 'Goodu Deepa' competitions held at various part of the district a few days back, where colourful sky lanterns were at display, giving people an alternative to traditional stand alone diyas. Nandavar says, he is not sure whether 'goodu deepas' are unique to this region, but they certainly bring out local flavour and make the festival more vibrant
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MANGALORE : Naringana, the model Gram Panchayat in Bantwal taluk, is not resting on its laurels after having won the Nairmalya Gram Puraskar in 2006-07. It has launched a new initiative to reduce waste coming from houses by exhorting the villagers to have their own compost pits to generate manure.

Panchayat president Ismail Meenamkodi told TOI that the initiative started in May this year has resulted in 50 percent of the households having their own compost pits enough to degrade the organic waste to manure. 'The primary objective is to reduce the waste coming out of the house on to the streets,' says Panchayat development office Ramya K S. 'We have seen Sewage Treatment Plants creating more problems than providing solutions. We don't want an STP. If we manage our waste, half the problem is solved,' she avers.

On Gandhi Jayanthi day, the Panchayat launched plastic waste controlled clean village campaign. 'As of now, we do not have any bins for people to throw plastics. Whatever plastic the households have are directly brought to the scrap dealer by the villagers themselves,' said GP vice president Joseph Coutinho, who was its former president. The GP has a population of 5,630 with 1,087 families.

Naringana GP is open toilet free since many years with each house having a toilet. Though BPL families got Rs 1,200 for having their own toilets, the hard laterite surface meant they had to spend thrice the amount on labour itself. Ismail says the excess expenditure was made good by shramdaan and donations from philanthropists.

The gram Panchayat on a high plateau of hard laterite has the problem of water scarcity during summer months. Though there are 37 bore wells sunk in their area, scarcity still persists, which made them opt for rainwater harvesting methods near tube wells. 'This has yielded positive results and this summer scarcity was not much,' says Ismail.
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A special Deepavali for special children







Mangalore, October 25: There was a glow of happiness on the faces of special children staying in the Sanidhya Residential School here on Monday evening.



They had someone to care for them for this year's Deepavali and the festival mood had set in for special school campus, thanks to Manjunath Friends Circle of Kadri Hills, Mangalore.



Members of this Circle spent time with the special children on the eve of Deepavali and distributed sweets, apart from bursting of crackers and fireworks.



Inaugurating the special event Coastal Development Authority Chairman Nagaraj Shetty said that it was the responsibility of civil society to take care the children, who were suffering from different disabilities for no fault of their own.



Appreciating the effort to of the Circle in organising ‘a meaningful Deepavali celebration’ in association with Sandhya, he said that such tradition should continue.



Speaking on the occasion Mangalore City Corporation Commissioner Harish Kumar said that institutions like ‘Sanidhya’ are doing a good job by looking after those children who were neglected in the society.



Mahabal Marla, president of the school, presided over the function. Youth congress leaders Praveen Alva, Vishwas Das and others were present.



















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One can have a chit chat, or a cat fight over a small topic,
One can share your knowledge of Dakshina Kannada in this forum

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I feel every Mangalorean who is proud of what Mangalore is, Should be knowing this person.

Mangalore, Oct 27: Chaminda Vaas, veteran Sri Lankan all-rounder and a legend in the world of cricket, has decided to provide this city the opportunity to host the “Chaminda Vaas Benefit T20 Cricket Cup” on November 19, 2011, at the NMPT Cricket Stadium, Panambur, from 11 am onwards. This is the first time in the history of the city that an international cricket team will visit here.

Chaminda Vaaz will announce this officially at a press conference at noon on Saturday October 29, at Ocean Pearl Hotel, Mangalore. DKCA president Srikant Rai will also be present.

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City's leading advertising group Magnum Intergrafiks Pvt Ltd is hosting this prestigious event.

According to the press release from the organizers, on November 19, Vaas will lead a balanced team of XI cricket stars past and present, who will battle it out against the ‘Mangalore Indians’, selected and groomed by the Dakshina Kannada Cricket Association (DKCA). To add flavour to the game, DKCA will select some high profile cricket stars from Karnataka, who have represented their country or state.

The T20 clash will be watched live by thousands of spectators and thousands of television viewers from across the country (through ‘Janasri’ Kannada satellite TV channel).

The stadium atmosphere will be carnival-like, but the game of cricket will be serious and professional, in keeping with international T20 rules. Cheerleaders, DJ music, and live entertainment will add to the all round razzmatazz, thus creating an electrifying stadium atmosphere.

Daijiworld.com is the official web portal for the event.

The event will be supported by Udayavani who is the official media partner. Janasri TV will be the official and exclusive telecast partner, Summer Sands will be the official hospitality partner, 92.7 BIG FM will be the official radio partner, and Cila Advertisers will be the official outdoor (hoardings) partner.

The objective of hosting this international extravaganza in the city is to promote cricket amongst the youth, showcase the fast developing coastal city, and look forward to Mangalore having a full-fledged cricket stadium one day.

The evening will witness an elegant and enchanting ‘Corporate Bash’ featuring executives and cricketers, which will be hosted at Summer Sands. The cocktails and dinner party offers the various executives in the city of Mangalore the opportunity to socialize under one roof in the company of high-profile cricketers. Due to space constraints and security restrictions, participation in the event will be limited and first offered to sponsors.
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It is time to see whether the world thinks your dog, with its playful tricks and pranks, is best of the lot. Just march in with the canine to Kadri Park early on October 30.

Organised by Karavali Kennel Club, the dog show is open for all breeds. As many as 250 dog owners, including some from Hyderabad and Chennai, are expected to bring their canines.

Club president T. Subbaya Shetty told presspersons on Monday that the best dog in the show would get prize money of Rs. 30,000, second best Rs. 20,000 and the third Rs. 10,000.

The best male and female puppies would get Rs. 5,000 each.

In addition, the best adults and puppies in each of the 25 breeds would be given certificates, he said.

Registration for the show will begin at 8 a.m. The fee is Rs. 250.

There will be benching (cooling off) for the canines from 9 a.m. and actual show and judging will start at 11 a.m. and conclude with prize distribution at 5 p.m. Inauguration of the event is at 10.15 a.m.

A facility will be thrown open to those who want their dogs to get pedigree certificates from the Kennel Club of India (KCI).

An authorised person will see whether your dog can qualify for the certificate. If found suitable, the owners will have to pay Rs. 1,000 for the process of certification.

Pedigree certificate is necessary for participation in any dog show organised by KCI or its affiliates.

Mr. Shetty said that his club had applied for KCI affiliation and it could take two years to get it. There could be over 1,000 canines in Mangalore with pedigree certificates. The next dog show was likely to be held in Udupi, he added.

For entry forms, log on to www.dogs4u.in. For details, call 08242457709/10 or 9343563889.
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what abt Jewel of Tulunadu thread?

what abt Jewel of Tulunadu thread?

Look Mangalore project thread can be used to post information about various projects coming up in Mangalore, Right from construction of small complex to various kinds of buildings and construction activities.

Jewel of Tulunadu thread is meant to post news and information about Dakshina Kannada which shows the culture and other unique features which happen only here

Mangalore discussion is just a simple chat room kind where we can discuss and enhance the knowledge. Just like the photo of a US Mallya, And we can share more info of this person.

Later we can go and discuss more on topics like Yakshagana, tiger dance, Various food recipes of Mangalore and Udupi

A dog show-cum-competition is being organized by the city-based Karavali Kennel Club at Kadri Park’s horticultural wing on Sunday October 30. Dogs belonging to a variety of breeds will be on exhibition at the show.

Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister, Krishna J Palemar, will inaugurate the event. Chairman of Coastal Development Auhority, B Nagaraja Shetty, will preside. City commissioner of police, Seemant Kumar Singh, will be the chief guest.

The valedictory function being held in the evening will be presided over by MLA, Abhay Chandra Jain. Inspector general of police, Alok Mohan, will be participating as chief guest.

Club president, T Subbaiah Shetty, said that prizes totalling Rs 70,000 will be given out on the occasion. A release from the club said that apart from first, second, and third prizes of Rs 30,000, Rs 20,000, and Rs 10,000 respectively, individual prizes of Rs 5,000 each will be awarded to the best dog and best bitch from among the participating canines.
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SSC is not a place to discuss culture of a region, propaganda etc.. This forum mostly about urban issues and skyscrapers :) So Mangalore- The Jewel of Tulunadu (Dakshina Kannada & Udupi) (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1407846) thread can even be deleted.

Three boys from Mangalore have made it to the national final rounds of the Google Doodle contest this year. They are Varun Holla and Vaibhav Shenoy, both students of class 9, Canara High School, Dongerkery, and Shubham R. Vernekar, a class 9 student of St Aloysius High School.

The link (http://www.google.co.in/ intl/en/doodle4google/vote.html #d=d3-3) says that 45 finalists were chosen from 1,55,000 entries from throughout the country in the contest with the theme, “India's gift to the world”.

Vaibhav Shenoy and Varun Holla, both classmates, are finding it a bit tough to seek votes. Varun said that Vaibhav and he sit just a bench away and have been friends for the past nine years.

“This situation is unexpected. Our classmates are confused as to who to vote for,” he said.

Both Varun and Vaibhav said that some of their friends had said they would vote once for Varun and once for Vaibhav from different computers. “We usually share our thoughts and in group contests, we join the same group,” said Varun.

COMPETITION

Vaibhav said that he goes with Varun for inter-school drawing competitions.

Shubham has appealed to as many people as he knows to vote for him. “In Mangalore, I have told my friends, my mom's friends and all my relatives,” he said.

He said all his teachers have supported him. John Chandran, Shubham's art teacher, has been mailing people to gather support for his student.

The doodles of all the three students have similar elements such as illustrations of Ayurveda, Yoga, Indian games, and architecture.

This is the third year that the students of St. Aloysius have reached the national final round.

Last year, Akshay Raj, also a student of the same school, had won the contest.
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Situated on the bank of River Phalguni (Gurupur) and covered with picturesque mountains and hills, Venur, a small town in Belthangady taluk of Dakshina Kannada district, was once a great seat of Jainism.
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The presence of 35-foot tall monolith of Bhagawan Bahubali or Lord Gomateshwara (one of the prominent 4 in Karnataka and 2nd oldest) and many basadis make the place a popular pilgrimage centre for Jains even to this day.

Interestingly, not many people know that Karnataka has many important Jain pilgrim centres, temples and monuments. Shravanabelagola, Dharmasthala, Karkala, Moodbidri, Venur, Humcha, Narasimharajapura will astonish the visitors by their vast and abundant Jain heritage. Jainism with their rich cultural heritage and noble preaching of non-violence and peace always enjoyed a significant status in Karnataka.

With the Mahamastakabhisheka (anointing of the statue with water, tender coconut, milk, sugarcane juice and saffron paste and sprinkled with sandal wood powder, turmeric, and vermilion) scheduled to be held between January 28 and February 5, 2012 under the aegis of Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari Dr D Veerendra Heggade, the little town is gearing up to witness the anointing of the Lord. Though the Mahamastakabhisheka is performed once in 12 years, as per the records available, the ritual has been performed only three-times in Venur in the last 110-years, that is, in 1928, 1956 and the last one in 2000.

407-year-old statue

The architectural grandeur of Lord Bahubali at Venur, once the capital of the Ajila Dynasty, was established by Thimmanna Ajila (1558-1616 AD), one of the most prominent Kings of the dynasty, in 1604 AD. He was said to be a direct descendant of Chamundaraya, who built the statue at Shravanabelagola. The statue is supposed to have been sculptured by Amarashilpi Jakanachari. The Kings of Ajila Dynasty ruled the region from 1154 to 1786 AD.

The colossal idol of Lord Bahubali stands on a high platform facing westward. The beautifully carved sculpture of Lord Bahubali with elongated ears, palms stretching up to knees, curly hair, depiction of anthill and creepers entwining both hands is awesome.

As you enter this holy place, you will come across Manstambha or the column of dignity with idols of 24 Thirthankars. According to the inscriptions in the temple at Venur, this was completed in the year 1489. The shrine of Chandranatha and Shantinatha Swamy, built in stone is another gem of Venur. The statue of Lord Shantinath is built on a black rock measuring up to 5 feet in height and is a magnificent piece of art. This apart, there are Jain basadis scattered throughout the little town, that include Sri Adeeshwara swamy basadi, Sri Parshwanatha swamy basadi and Sri Shanthishwara swamy basadi.

Artistic works, great sceneries and beautiful architecture make Venur a great place to visit. Besides the richness of religion, Venur also provides a lot of insight to the Jain history and its evolution.

With the State government releasing Rs 2 crore to develop infrastructure in the region and with an expected 2 lakh visitors to the little town, the 2nd Mahamastakabhisheka in this century is going to be a mega event.

Speaking to City Herald, Padmaprasad Ajila, the descendent (14th generation) of Thimmanna Ajila, said that the Jains have also planned novel projects including organising medical camps in and around Venur for the benefit of all people irrespective or caste or creed. Meanwhile, former minister and MLA Abhayachandra Jain, who also hails from the same community, said that the poojas on each day (for 9 days) would cost approximate Rs 8 lakh, besides other expenses.

Interestingly, there is a strong belief that Mahamastakabhisheka would also cleanse the human beings after witnessing the glorious ceremony for the lord, who personified sacrifice, non-violence and compassion. Each ingredient poured on the Lord has its own significance — water to cleanse, sandalwood to spread the fragrance of Lord’s virtues, milk as a symbol of purity, cane juice to relieve hunger and choorna to beautify!

Legend

According to Jain scriptures, Bahubali was the second of the 100 sons of the first Thirthankara, Lord Rishabha and was the king of Podanpur. He was known for the strength in his arms as depicted by his name.

Legend has it that Bahubali was challenged by his brother Bharatha over the succession to the throne. Bahubali took on the challenge and duelled with his brother in three forms such as ‘Drishtiyuddha,’ ‘Mallayuddha’ and ‘Jalayuddha’.

Bahubali emerged victorious but was disgusted with the quest of material wealth that made him fight his own brother. Renouncing his kingdom and all worldly pleasures, he went on to pursue ‘Moksha’ (salvation) and stood in a deep meditation for years.

How to reach

Venur is situated about 55 km away from Mangalore, between Moodbidre and Guruvayanakere. There are many buses to Venur from Moodbidre as well as Guruvayanakere (Belthangady). Its walkable distance from Venur to the monolith statue, which is hardly 400 metres away.

Shortest among 4

The 35-foot statue of Bhagawan Bahubali in Venur is the shortest among four statues while the 57-foot statue at Shravanabelagola is the tallest. The statues at Karkala and Dharmasthala are 42-foot and 39-foot tall respectively.

The architectural grandeur of Lord Bahubali at Shravanabelagola is considered to be the world’s largest monolithic stone statue (and also the oldest) with inscriptions in Kannada and Tamil dating back to 981 AD. The statue at Venur, the 2nd oldest statue, dates back to 1604. The statues at Karkala and Dharmasthala were established in 1432 and 1975 respectively.

As per the tradition, the next Mahamastakabhisheka at Karkala, Shravanabelagola and Dharmasthala will be held in 2014, 2018 and 2019 respectively

It was opened for the homeless in September with fanfare
NGO says there are no takers for the facility
‘Everything will be set right by next week'
Even as the authorities claim that the temporary night shelter has been “temporarily shut” as it has no takers, a family of migrants sleeps in front of a shop less than 100 metres away from the locked shelter.

After the Supreme Court cracked the whip last year, urban local bodies conducted a survey of people who slept on the pavement. Also in keeping with the court's directions, all urban local bodies were told to set up temporary night shelters and make arrangements for permanent ones. The shelter is supposed to remain open at night so that homeless people would have a place to sleep.

Mangalore City Corporation officials said more than 1,300 people were found sleeping in the open during the survey.

Although, the shelter was inaugurated on September 22, it remains closed, and there appears to be confusion about how it should be run.

Commissioner of the corporation Harish Kumar told The Hindu that the corporation had entrusted the functioning of the shelter to a non-governmental organisation, Sameeksha Trust, which claimed that nobody turned up to use the shelter. A separate area had been set up in the ward office of the corporation near Car Street for women to sleep.

Managing trustee of Sameeksha Trust Reshma Ullal told The Hindu that there were no takers for the shelter. Some people, who used the shelter initially, had returned to their villages. The NGO had suggested during a meeting with the corporation that banners be put up about the night shelter facility across the city, she said.

Ms. Ullal said that the NGO could not bring people to the shelter as it would be “an offence”. Only the corporation officials or the police had the authority to bring people to the shelter.

Mr. Kumar said that people were not aware of the shelter. The police would be requested to guide such people to the shelter.

Mr. Kumar said that according to the Supreme Court guidelines, the NGO was supposed to make arrangements for free or low-cost food and install lockers and television sets in the rooms.

However, Ms. Ullal said no such instruction had been conveyed to her. She claimed that it was the trust which had suggested that food be served to people in permanent shelters. There should be a qualified person to deal with people who could have psychological problems, she added.

Considering these aspects, the shelter is unlikely to reopen soon. While Mr. Kumar said: “Everything will be set right” by next week, Ms. Ullal said that the shelter would be reopened on December 1.
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Mangalore, Nov 10: Kanady Ajit Hegde took charge as commissioner of Mangalore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) here on Wednesday November 9.

He was previously employed as financial controller in Karnataka Rural Roads Development Organization, Bangalore.
Hegde had served as the joint commissioner of Mangalore municipality for three years and was later transferred as chief administrator of Karnataka State Pollution Control Board.

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MANGALORE: As part of the business diversification, the Dakshina Kannada Co-operative Milk Producers Federation Limited will launch 'Kokum Fruit Punch', a new soft drink made of kokum and milk.

DKCMPF assures that not only the tasty drink will quench thirst, but will also serve as an ideal health drink. Federation managing director Ravikumar Kakade said the drink manufactured using the juice of kokum fruit and milk whey will be marketed under a brand for the first time in the state.

"It is a nourishing health drink as it has anti-carcinogenic, anti-oxidant, anti-obese and cardio-tonic properties. Further, milk whey contains lactose, vitamins and protein, which is necessary for one to keep health fit," he said adding that Kokum Fruit Punch will be an ideal drink for athletes too.

A 200 ml bottle of Kokum Fruit Punch will be priced at Rs 10 and it will be launched to the market soon, he said adding the drink can be preserved for three months from date of manufacture.

In addition, the Federation also has many other business expansion plans of introducing more products to the market. Federation president K Raviraj Hegde said that four more new products will be introduced to the market soon.

Federation will launch a new chocolate flavoured milk pack which will have three months expiry period. This sterilised milk of 200 ml bottles will be sold at Rs 15. Nandini curd, which is now available in 6 kg, 400 grams and 200 grams packs, will be made available in 1 kg packs at Rs 28. New Khova sweet packs of 200 grams will be introduced to the market at Rs 52, he added.

Federation will also introduce diced paneer to the market for the convenience of customers. Paneer will be made available to customers in dice shapes, which will help them to cook easily, Raviraj said.
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Mangalore’s gaping issues

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Mangalore, Nov 1, 2011: Mangalore is no doubt a booming city. It now has several concretized roads to boast of and of course hi-rise buildings, both residential and commercial complexes. The mall culture too is gaining momentum and people are thronging the malls for shopping or just to have some fun.

Several industries are on the pipeline as part of the MSEZ, though it is also equally true that the second phase of this ambitious project is in the dock after the denotification of land meant for the purpose.







What about the standard of basic infrastructural facilities in this burgeoning city, which is considered next only to the capital Bangalore? It is hardly up to the mark and poorly maintained, especially at strategic places in the city. Of course several roads are concretized. But at the same time it cannot be forgotten that many of the inner roads are in bad shape, dotted with potholes making them unmotorable.

Then coming to another basic need of a city- a full-fledged bus stand. Does Mangalore at least have this? Sadly no. The existing bus stand at State Bank can be described as an adhoc arrangement that has been continuing since long. No one can term it as a bus stand by any means. Over 500 odd city buses come to this place which is their starting point and there is absolutely chaos at this bus stand particularly during peak hours. The bus stand has a range of problems, from the stinking fish market nearby to the improper parking of private buses. The buses are least bothered about the safety of the people around waiting for the buses. There have been incidents of buses hitting pedestrians here on several earlier occasions. Bus stands should have platforms, but that’s not the case here. Neither are there any bus shelter for the people to wait for the buses. People new to the city are left clueless as to which bus to get into. The great irony is that the private city bus stand and the office of the deputy commissioner are just a few yards away. But, why has the administration turned a blind eye to the pathetic state of the bus stand until now?

Several proposals made for a permanent bus stand for Mangalore have been in the dock and the only proposal that is making rounds now is the transportation hub proposed at Pumpwell. Though the district minister is oft and again making statements that the bus stand works would begin, there are no signs as to yet but for the initial leveling works. More land for the same is yet to be acquired. In November last year, the district minister had directed the then Deputy Commissioner Subodh Yadav to see to it that works pertaining to Pumpwell bus stand started within six months. But, nothing happened. Meanwhile, there were even complaints of dearth of funds for kick starting this project.Yet again, just a few days ago, the minister while participating in another function said the work on the bus stand proposal would begin within a couple of days. Any takers for such statements?

If reports are to be believed, the corporation is yet to prepare a blueprint of the proposed hub and was yet to have a blueprint for constructing a bus-stand, apart from arranging funds for this project.

It’s been years since the city has been putting up with the congested "temporary service bus stand" and the so called ‘official’city bus terminus at State Bank area. As the city has been witnessing a rapid development for a few years now, people have started feeling the pressure of traffic congestion in the Hampankatta area, as the bus-stand for the private express buses, is barely a few hundred meters away from the city bus stand.

Bharat Lal Meena, who was the Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada from 1994 to 1996, had proposed to construct satellite bus terminals at Kadri, Kottara and Pumpwell to ease the traffic congestion inside the city, but sadly the projects were shelved.

If this is the bus stand story, the story of the one and only major public sports ground of Mangalore, the Nehru Maidan, is no better. Though it was supposed to be meant only for sports purposes, as was the condition laid down while handing it over by a philanthropist, the Maidan in the recent few years, has been occupied during most of the year for various other public or religious functions. This has only proved detrimental to the interests of this large maidan as it often gets damaged due to the digging works undertaken whenever some pandal is put up here. The regret is that people who are permitted to arrange functions here never bothered to clean up the area once they vacate it nor close the trenches or holes dug up by them. Even the authorities fail to see to it that the ground is returned unharmed.

Where lies the solution to all these problems? Are our authorities sleeping over such pertinent issues? Why is it that the city of Mangalore could not have a permanent bus stand all these years? Why couldn’t the Nehru Maidan be properly maintained? Why can’t there be some agency to solely look after such issues? What has the city corporation and the district administration doing all these years? Why aren’t Mangaloreans raising voice against these gaping problems which are nothing but a black spot on the image of the city? Questions remain as Mangalore is continuing to cope with these problems.

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Many passengers at Mangalore Junction Railway station in Mangalore had a tough time as autorickshaw drivers were demanding exorbitant fare on Monday. Photo: R. Eswarraj

Many passengers, including senior citizens travelling from Bangalore to Mangalore by the day train, were shocked and disappointed when they learnt that they will have to alight at Mangalore Junction and not Mangalore Central on Monday. The pre-paid autorickshaw counter was absent adding to their problems.

Consequent to the extension of the Yeshwantpur-Mangalore train up to Karwar, the train will skip Mangalore Central station and pass through Mangalore Junction.

Passengers like K. Balakrishna Shenoy and a group of 12 senior citizens in their 70s said they had bought tickets to the central station but the train stopped in Mangalore Junction and they were all angry about it. And they were informed about it after they boarded the train. When they reached Mangalore Junction, they found that it was nearly impossible to travel to the city since there were limited autorickshaws which were demanding exorbitant fare. Autorickshaw drivers appeared to be taking advantage of passengers' helplessness.

Rakesh Ganatra residing in Bangalore and who reached Mangalore Junction by Monday's train (no 16515) said he was not informed about the changes in the stop till he boarded the train. He did not know how to reach Bunts' Hostel Circle. The autorickshaw drivers were demanding Rs. 150.

Ananya Shetty, travelling back from Bangalore, said she had no option than paying up. The autorickshaw drivers demanded exorbitant fares and never allowed the passengers to bargain. Many passengers expressed that getting down in Mangalore Junction and finding an autorickshaw was difficult.

At one point of time, the number of commuters far outnumbered the vehicles. The nearest bus stop was Padil, which is quite a distance for commuters to walk with their luggage.
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The Janatha Hotel in Gurpur continues its tradition
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KEEPING THE FLAME ALIVE: Vitthaldas Kamath cooking the delicacies using firewood at his hotel in Gurpur in Mangalore on Tuesday. — Photo: R. Eswarraj

A 40-year-old family-run hotel in Gurpur claims to have been running for the last three generations. Called “Janatha”, the hotel is located on the Mangalore-Moodbidri road.

The place is different from other restaurants as the food is cooked entirely on firewood. Customers can choose to sit either in the front room of the hotel or in the kitchen where one can see the requested food getting done. While the tuppa dosas sizzle on the tava, a cat lends company.

Fifty-four-year-old Vitthaldas Kamath, who owns the hotel, said the hotel was started by his father G. Krishna Kamath, whose portrait adorns the front room.

Vijayendra and Sudheer Kamath, both sons of Vitthaldas Kamath, help in the kitchen every day. The brothers finished their graduation and have decided to join the family business, said 24-year-old Vijayendra, who is the youngest family member in the business. He said the kitchen uses three quintals of firewood a week. Firewood as fuel had been used ever since the kitchen began, said Mr. Vijayendra.

He said the place was open only for breakfast and serves up to 200 people a day. The breakfast menu includes tuppa dosa , idlis , aambvade , potato vadas , and two types of chutneys are served.
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Finding streets in Mangalore is a daunting task now
MANGALORE, November 24, 2011 (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2655239.ece)
For, the MCC is doing little to install plaques bearing the names of streets
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A pizza delivery boy on Wednesday was found asking some passers-by direction to Second Cross at Kottara. With no help coming, he approached some shopkeepers. Many did not know the street he was looking for.

Many are facing such a problem in the absence of plaques bearing the names of streets and roads in parts of the city. People feel there is little that the Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) is doing to install such plaques in its 60 wards.

“Plaques bearing the names of streets and roads are a basic necessity in any city,'' said G.G. Mohandas Prabhu, former president, Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told The Hindu .

“It is the duty of the city corporation to install and maintain them,'' he said.

Mr. Prabhu said many wards in the city did not have such plaques. He saw some plaques only in Gandhinagar in Mannagudda and on Falnir Road.

G. Hanumantha Kamath, president of Nagarika Hitarakshana Samiti, said that Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike had installed plaques bearing the names of roads, councillors, MLAs and MPs representing the local areas. They also carried ward numbers and names.

Mr. Kamath said many people here knew little about their wards.

They did not have the knowledge of roads. Installation of such plaques would not only help local people but also those visiting the city. He said that councillors could utilise some amount from their area development fund to install such plaques. If not, the corporation should reserve funds for the purpose in its 2012-13 budget.

Mr. Kamath said 15 years ago, there were such plaques in the city. Many of them had disappeared now. The city corporation should wake up from its deep slumber, he said.

He said that constitution of ward committees helped in addressing such basic issues. Neither the ruling nor the Opposition in the corporation council were interested in constituting such committees as councillors feared they would undermine their importance.

Premananda Shetty, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Town Planning and Improvement, said many people had complained to him about the absence of plaques. Postal employees were some among them.

Mr. Shetty said that the corporation would look into this issue.

Lancelot Pinto, Leader of the Opposition in the corporation council, said installation of such plaques would not cost the corporation much. Each plaque might cost between Rs. 2,000 and Rs. 3,000.

Gokul Nagar Residents' Association at Kulai has put in place a system for identification of houses in Gokul Nagar. The association has given gate numbers for houses and displayed them on the plaques on all roads in the locality.

‘Coastal women richer’ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Coastal-women-richer/articleshow/10851284.cms)

Udupi, Dec 1: This year, mechanized harvesters are being extensively used in farming activities by peasants in the coastal district who are engaged in paddy cultivation instead of depending on manual labourers.

The majority of farmers who have grown paddy on plateaus across undivided Dakshina Kannada district have taken an earnest interest in mechanized harvesters this year.

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The farmers prefer the mechanized harvesters that can harvest the crop, separate the paddy, and fill it in sacks. A mechanized harvester takes 30–45 minutes to harvest one acre. The harvester that does the job of 30–40 farmhands in an hour has been causing unemployment in remote villages. The farmers are relieved of have to pay daily wages to farmhands, five measures of rice, tea and snacks twice a day and Rs 20 in cash to each.

The farmers who have grown paddy in plains have to depend on farmhands since harvesters cannot maneuver in paddy crop grown in stagnant water. The farmers who were previously worried about transporting paddy in the past, are increasingly availing the services of mechanized harvesters. Some farmers fear that the mechanized harvesters will damage the hay during the harvest. The farmers are looking for help from technocrats in designing a loader that can store the hay in the existing harvester, informed sources.
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Udupi: Kalattor Villagers Strongly Oppose Second Phase of Land Acquisition by ISPRL

A massive protest was held at Mahalingeshwar temple, Kalattoor, near here on Thursday December 8 , opposing the second phase of land acquisition of 700 acres in Kalattoor village, that lies in the vicinity of union government promoted by Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL) project site in Padoor village, here.

Over 4,000 villages gathered at Mahalingeshwar temple, Kalattor, as they feared the second phase of land acquisition would take away their ancestral farmlands, since first phase of project is coming up in 450 acres for setting up underground crude oil storage, meant for national reserve during emergency.

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^^Organising power of Mangalore and udupi people are very good.Be it in ngo ,swasahayas or even protests. There are sanghas ,samithis, clubs in every small village and towns .Once about 2 or3 years ago there was roumors of pcpir in villages around kinnigoli at the same time when msez was announced ,after 2 -3 days all the people were requested to participate in in combined protest against msez and pcpir.Free special buses came to all villages all homely people went to protest in mangalore .Most even dont even know who organized and collaborated two far away places kinnigoli and jokatte permude areas.Hats off to the organisers for organising such a big protest in such less time.This can only happen in mangalore udupi region i think:):)