Inaugurating the logo and office of State Level Boys and Girls Sport Meet 2014-15. With a grant of Rs. 10 lakh

Support and encouragement rises confidence level in athletes a step in that direction is working at the grass root level, one such initiative is encouraging them early at schools, it gives me a whole lot of satisfaction being able to be part of such initiative, the logo and office of State Level Boys and Girls Sport Meet 2014-15 at Girls Government PU College, was unveiled on October 22nd. in the presence of CMC President P.Yuvraj; TP President Sunitha Nayak; T.P Vice President Ganesh Kumar; CMC Member Ramesh Kanchan, DC SS Pattana Shetty; ADC Kumar; SP Rajendra Prasad; RTO Arun Kumar Singh; Principal Radha Mani; Sitharam Shetty, President District Physical Education Teachers Association,Diwakar Shetty, Deputy Director Department of Public Instruction, Vishwanath Bayari and Sathish Chitrapadi.

The continuous support and encouragement to Athletes rises their confidence level which is key factor for achieving good results. The District Administration has been constantly focusing on promoting sports in the district. The sports activities ofUdupi District is fast becoming the model to other districts in Karnataka. The athletes too on their part have made us proud by winning in State, National and International level Sports meet.

A grant of rupees 10 lakh will be released to the State Level Boys and Girls Sport Meet 2014-15 from the Urban Development Department to encourage sporting activity at districtlevel.

over 3000 and more athletes are expected to participating in the State Level Boys and Girls Sport Meet 2014-15.  

Diwakar Shetty, Deputy Director Department of Public Instruction welcomed the gathering. Vishwanath Bayari delivered the vote of thanks. Sathish Chitrapadi compered the programme.

Kolar Visit (Article excerpts from Koalrvani)

Yargol works will be completed before May,

Urban Development Minister Vinay Kumar Sorake has said that the work of Yargol for providing drinking water to 4 taluks of Kolar district will be completed before May next year.

The minister going for a visit to the project place he has visited the Congress office and has spoken to the workers and speaking to the newspaper “Kolarvani” the minister said under the Yargol Project the dam will be constructed and under this project the underground drainage works will be undertaken where ever required. He has told that the preference will be given to drinking water.  

He has said that the Yargol Dam construction project works will be completed by May next year definitely and the drinking water supply will be provided.

Yargol Visit:

Urban development minister Mr. Vinay Kumar Sorake has visited the Yragol reservoir and inspected the works. For the pros and cons of the project he has called up the Commissioner of Underground Drainage Board and he also doubted that the water will be reserved by constructing a dam.

He has asked several questions like without a source you constructed a dam and you wasted so much of money. If it rains the reservoir will fill up. The technical team officers drew attention of minister by saying if the reservoir fills up the drinking water problem will be solved. People of technical committee have confidently said that the construction of dam will be completed by March next year.

There are no rivers in the district the people are dependent on the rain and there should be a permanent drinking water source is must for the people, the interest was there for Yettinahole project before the Loksabha Election but the same interest has not been shown now. The opening of Yettinahole project was done in Chikkaballapur.

Mangalore City Corporation public grievance meet held on Tuesday, October 7.

Mangalore, Oct 7: Passing stern directives to the officials of the Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) after patiently listening to public grievances, Urban Development minister Vinay Kumar Sorake told within the next ten days concerned officials should resolve short- term problems raised by the public, during the public grievance meet held on Tuesday, October 7.

Responding to the memorandum submitted by the MCC to the minister during the public grievance meet, he told government would fill all the vacant and sanctioned posts in the corporation within three months.

“The government has obtained permission to fill sanctioned 2,500 posts across the corporations from finance department and the appointments will be realized step by step”, he assured.

With regard to the appointments of civic workers, he said as many as 1,000 civic workers were required and the process of recruiting the workers were on. “The government has taken task of constructing a vented dam at Tumbe at an estimated cost of Rs 50 crore”. Conceding to the fact that corporation was unable to bear the hefty cost, the government came up to build the dam, he informed.

“Though opposition from the villagers exists because of the submersion of many villages in the dam, we will convince the locals to pave the way to build the dam”, he added.

Speaking on the issue of appointment of the commissioner, he told that MCC encountered grave problems concerning the issue due to which he was withdrawn from the post. Later, the commissioner Ajith Kumar Hegde moved the court and brought the stay order and further, he himself withdrew his petition.

Minister further informed that Hegde was transferred from the audit department as commissioner of MCC and during his small stint allegations of work paralysis in the MCC surfaced. “At present the CM of the Karnataka would appoint the commissioner from the KAS or IAS cadre in short span”, he promised.

During the grievance meet, he heard many complaints submitted by Mangaloreans. For the complaint on failing to act on the orders to demolish illegal building in the city, he told one of the town planning officials to look into the matter. However, Hanumanth Kamath, complainant alleged that 150 building in the city were declared as illegal and the erstwhile commissioner Harish Kumar (currently personal secretary of Sorake) passed the order to clear the encroachment. The present MCC officials were playing a hide and seek game to protect builders’ interest.

The minister told that he was exploring the possibility of including Mangalore into the centre government’s smart city project despite the population of the city falling below 5 lacs, an outlined number to be recognized for smart cities.

He added that the development of markets such as central market Mangalore and markets in Surathkal will be done through public private partnership. He also noted the government has shown interest in expanding underground drainage system across the corporations.

There were as many as 35 complaints raised during the meeting. The minister said that a review meeting on the status of complaints will be held in ten days and concerned authorities should be prepared to explain if any technical and legal problems occur in the way of resolving the problems of public.

article published by : Daijiworld Media Network-Mangalore

Government is fully prepared to stop dumping waste at Mandur from December 1.

Chief Minister Shri. Siddaramaiah convened a meeting to charting out a phase wise plan to stop dumping waste at Mandur.