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Last Sunset of 2011, Karwar



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Work on new units at Kaiga in April, says Rao

‘All formalities in this regard have been completed'

Work on setting up of IV and V units of Kaiga Generating Station (KGS) will begin in first week of April and all formalities in this regard have been completed, N. Nageshwar Rao, Director (Operations), Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), has said.

Mr. Rao told presspersons at Kaiga on Saturday after a scientific meet on radiation and cancer that the Union government had given sanction for these new units for which land had been identified.

Studies

He said that a memorandum of understanding had been signed by NPCIL with the Union government, and geo-technical studies had been completed.

Mr. Rao said the purpose of the scientific meet was to disseminate information on radiation and cancer based on scientific studies carried out by the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) and NPCIL.

Ruling out that the number of cancer cases had increased around Kaiga in the last decade, Mr. Rao said that NPCIL presented the studies carried out by various independent organisations which showed that radiation from atomic plants were not responsible for it.

Survey

He said a joint survey would be conducted within two months by the Tata Memorial Centre, Kasturaba Medical College, Manipal, and NPCIL. The survey would be first conducted within the five km radius of the Kaiga Generating Station and then gradually increased up to 16 km. radius.

Refuting the allegations Mr. Rao said NPCIL was periodically conducting the health survey of its employees and there was no increase in the number of cancer cases. The average was much lower than the national average.

Radiation

He said if cancer spread because of radiation, then the employees who worked at the reactors should have had it first than those living away from the nuclear power plant.

N. Nagaiah, Executive Director, (Corporate Planning and Corporate Communication), said more land was not required to build new reactors at Kaiga.

He said the allegation that NPCIL had built quarters for its employees away from Kaiga Generating Station was far from the truth.

In other parts of India, housing facility had been provided to NPCIL workers areas near the plants. But in Kaiga, a condition was imposed by the government while granting sanction to set up the plant and according to it, NPCIL had not used forest area to build commercial and housing complexes, he added.

J.P. Gupta, Site Director, and H.R. Bhat, Chief Engineer (Health Physics) of NPCIL, were present.

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No increase in number of cancer cases at Kaiga
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Joint survey to be taken up by TMC and KMC in two months

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Kurumudgod Island festival at Karwar



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Kurumudgod Island festival at Karwar



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Kurumudgod Island festival at Karwar




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Kurumudgod Island festival at Karwar



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Anashi-Kumbarawada road dominates review meeting

Senior officers of the district administration met here on Monday to discuss the issue of repairing the 16-km Anashi- Kumbarawada road. The road falls within the limit of Anashi reserved forest area and the Project Tiger area.

Gopalakrishna Gowda, Government Secretary in-charge of the Uttara Kannada district chaired the meeting.

Deputy Commissioner B.N. Krishnaiah told Mr. Gowda that the Forest Department had refused to give permission for the repair of the road and because of this the Public Works Department and the contractors were hesitating to take up the repair work.

He said the issue had been hanging fire for several years and about Rs. 40 lakh had been spent on afforestation. The delay in granting permission by the Central Empowerment Committee (CEC) had hampered the repair work, he said.

Concretisation

The Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department told the meeting that the concretisation work on Devimane Ghat was under way. The work had to be completed in three months so that vehicles plying between Hubli and Udupi and Sirsi and Karwar had to take an alternative route, he said.

College building

Joida taluk had no government pre-university college and the unused buildings of Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd. at Ganeshgudi would be used for the college, the meeting decided.

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Murudeshwara temple

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Murudeshwara Beach

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thank u Akhilesh

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Thank You AKash And yogendra

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Karwar INSCHAPAL by vm2827, on Flickr

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Murudeshwara temple Gopura

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Karwar, January 27: The Karnataka government has prepared a proposal for upgrading the infrastructure facilities in villages close to the Kaiga Atomic Power Plant in Uttar Kannada district. The Karnataka government has informed the NDMA about its proposal.



The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), a unit under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, had carried out mock exercises in association with different state governments at all nuclear installations to assess the preparedness of various agencies in the event of nuclear disaster.



After the mock exercise, the NDMA had instructed all states to prepare development plans in villages falling under the emergency planning zone of the nuclear plants.



Responding to this, the Karnataka government had intimated the Disaster Management Authority that it has prepared a proposal on upgrading infrastructure around Kaiga nuclear plant.



Meanwhile, during a meeting with a delegation led by Rajya Sabha member Sitaram Yachury, the NDMA vice chairman Shashidhar Reddy said that his organisation will ensure that people living close to nuclear plants get better infrastructure including healthcare, education and livelihood opportunities.



In response to the delegation’s request to rehabilitate the residents of five villages falling within five km radius of Kaiga plant, Reddy explained that people living only in the 1.6 km sterile zone have been rehabilitated, while in the exclusion zone covering five km radius, residents were not rehabilitated.



Reddy also promised that he would take up the issue with the Planning Commission to ensure that separate funds are earmarked for the development of villages close to the nuclear plant, said a statement from the Authority.

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Karwar, February 3: The INS Chapal warship museum docked at the Rabindranath Tagore beach here since November 2006, was closed down on Thursday by the Karwar City Municipal Council (CMC) authorities.



The museum, which is one of the main tourist attractions of Karwar, was slowly disintegrating part by part due to lack of proper maintenance.



In view of the Naval Base being set up in Karwar, the Defence Ministry handed over the missile boat to the district administration.



Commissioned by the Indian Navy in 1976 and decommissioned in 2005, NS Chapal patrolled the Indian sea coast. The 245-tonne ship (on full load) has a length of 38.6 metres, beam of 7.6 metres and speed of 37 knots. The warship was used in the 1971 India-Pakistan war and had destroyed many enemy ships.



Meanwhile, many organisations, including the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV), have criticized the Karwar CMC’s move and have demanded immediate reopening of the museum.



The activists alleged that by this action of the CMC, daily wage workers who were depending on the job inside the museum were left in lurch. The KRV activists on Thursday protested in front of the CMC demanding work for the workers. Many tourists who had come to visit the museum had to return after they found the gates locked on Thursday.



S.L. Fernandes, who taken the contract of maintenance of the warship museum through the tender, alleged that he had to suffer losses by the action of the CMC. He said that he was acting according to the conditions of the contract. Despite that, the CMC authorities took charge of the museum son Thursday, he alleged. Refuting the allegation of the contractor, Uday Kumar Shetty, Commissioner of Karwar CMC, said the contract between the CMC and Joy Electricals owned by Fernandis had ended about eight months ago.



It came to his notice soon after assuming charge as Commissioner last month. He had asked the contractor to hand over the keys. As the contractor did not hand over the keys, the CMC locked the doors of the museum, he said.



Mr. Shetty said Karwar CMC paid Rs. 44,000 a moth to the contractor. Hundreds of tourists visited the museum every day. But the contractor had not been maintaining any account and paid just Rs. 10,000 a month to the CMC as the collection causing huge loss to the government exchequer.



He said that although the ship was decommissioned from Navy, it was a national pride. There was no security arrangement.



The daily wage workers appointed by the contractor were keeping the keys with them. The locks doors of the captain's cabin had been opened and the beds inside the cabin were in very bad condition. There were no cameras and spotlights to keep a tab on the visitors. The garden where the ship was kept was in very bad shape. This prompted the CMC to take action, he said.



Brushing aside the allegation that the museum would be closed forever, Mr. Shetty said it would reopen within a week.



The intereiors of the museum needed painting. Surveillance cameras and spotlights would be set installed. The LCD screen would be repaired to show the glimpses of 1971 war. A small auditorium would be built to show the documentaries on armed forces, he said. There was no question of bowing to any pressure, he said.

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KARWAR: Foreign tourists on Sunday cleaned the Koti Tirtha lake and its surrounding areas in Gokarna town. Most of them were from Russia.

"We volunteered to do the work as a mark of respect to Lord Shiva the day before Shivaratri," one of the tourists said. But most refused to speak to the media, saying they were just doing their duty as they visit regularly the holy place.

One of them even chided mediapersons who were taking pictures: "Do something to keep your place clean." A Russian tourist, who identified himself as Ramadas and later revealed his name as Surkozy, said he loves India and Gokarna. He comes here every year to get peace. "The Koti Tirtha lake is a sacred water body. I know that one day is not enough to clean it. I am doing my service to Lord Mahabaleshwara (deity of Gokarna)," he said.

Other foreigners, brooms in hand, cleaned the steps of the lake and collected plastic bottles and bags, and cartons, and deposited them in a bin. Another foreign tourist said he would be happy if devotees who have a dip in the lake on Shivaratri return satisfied that they bathed in clean water. Some other foreigners said they had joined the cleaning work by the local gram panchayat on Saturday A German was upset at the lukewarm response from local representatives, public, officials and temple authorities to their voluntary work.

"Gokarna is a very holy place where the Atma Linga of Lord Shiva is situated. Coming from thousands of miles away, we are disappointed to see garbage in the town. The temple authorities and the administration should concentrate on hygiene first," said a traveller from Finland.

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NHAI invites bids for widening NH 66 in Goa-Kundapur sector

A 350-metre long and 12-metre wide elevated highway planned at Maravanthe

The 187-km stretch on the National Highway 66 between Kundapur and Goa border via Karwar is all set for widening with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) inviting bids (Request For Proposal) for taking up the work.

The last date for receiving the RFP would be March 30, 2012, according to a February 16, 2012, notification by the NHAI available in the public domain.

Official sources told The Hindu that the NHAI had invited bids after Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPAC), under the Union Department of Economic Affairs, Union Ministry of Finance, approved the project recently. The project would cost around Rs. 1,655 crore, they said.

PPAC is an inter-ministerial committee in charge of approving infrastructure projects. According to the February 16 notification by the NHAI, it had shortlisted 35 companies who were eligible for bidding for taking up the project. The companies had been shortlisted after evaluating their December 5, 2011, applications for their request for qualification (RFQ) for bidding.

According to the notification, the stretch of the highway would be widened as four/six lanes under phase IV of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP). It would be taken up under Design, Build, Finance, Operate, and Transfer (DBFOT) Toll basis.

The stretch proposed for widening was part of the 296-km highway from Goa border (near Karwar) to Kerala border (near Talapady) in the State.

The stretch between Kundapur and Talapady, via Mangalore, on the same highway is now being widened by the NHAI under phase III of the NHDP. With the new project on the anvil, the highway passing through Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, and Uttara Kannada districts via Karwar, Ankola, Kumta, Honnavar, Bhatkal, Kundapur, Udupi, Surathkal, Mangalore, Thokkottu, and Talapady is all set to get a facelift.

A main feature under the project is an elevated highway of 350-metre length and 12-metre width which would come up at Maravanthe, a tourist spot, where the existing highway passes through a narrow stretch between the sea and the river.

The elevated highway would be built across the river while the surface level of the existing highway would be raised by about a metre and strengthened, sources said.

Quoting the final feasibility report of the project prepared by a private company, the sources said that 14 major bridges, 41 minor bridges, six road-over-bridges (RoBs), and three road-under-bridges (RuBs) would be built.

Four tunnels and an equal number of flyovers would be built.

There would be 53 bus bays and four truck bays.

The Government would have to acquire 260 hectares of private land in 66 villages and 122 hectares of forestland for completing the project, the sources said.

This stretch needs bus terminals

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Roadwork inaugurated

MLA Dinakar Shetty on Tuesday inaugurated the asphalting works of Kodkani–Mirjan road in Kumta taluk. The work had been taken up at a cost of Rs. 30 lakh. Mr. Shetty said the development works in the taluk would be taken up on priority and asked the officials to maintain the quality of work. He said that asphalting of Kodkani–Kimani road would begin soon.

Local Janata Dal (Secular) leaders were present.

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