Government plans B’lore-Mumbai industrial corridor
8:03 AM Posted by ukmad
In an effort to give a much needed boost to the industrial development in the state, the State Government has proposed to develop Bangalore- Mumbai industrial corridor besides formulating a new industrial policy.
Minister for Major and Medium Industries Murugesh Nirani told reporters here on Friday that the new policy, focusing on creating investorfriendly environment, would be in place in the next three months. ‘’While formulating the new policy, industrial policies in states like Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan will be studied,’’ he said.
On the industrial corridor Nirani said that a feasibility study on Bangalore-Mumbai industrial corridor was being taken up as proposed by the Centre. The proposed corridor would establish connectivity from Bangalore to Belgaum covering 11 district headquarters and 22 towns along the National Highway Number 4, he said.
IT-BT zone at Mangalore, Mysore, Hubli- Dharwad, Belgaum.
Ignored by Congress leadership, he found the lotus attractive
7:54 AM Posted by ukmad
Source The HinduMr. Kore is a Lingayat and heads the Karnataka Lingayat Education Society, which runs a number of educational-health institutions in the State. His decision is being seen as further consolidation of the Lingayat forces behind the BJP, particularly in north Karnataka.
When a section of the media was carrying reports that Mr. Kore was planning to join the BJP or the Janata Dal (S) after the Congress denied him ticket to contest from the Chikkodi-Sadalaga Assembly constituency, he had denied them. On April 30, he said he was “seriously” considering saying “goodbye” to active politics to devote the rest of his life to “social service.”
On May 4, he said: “I want to quit politics, leave alone joining the Janata Dal (S), the BJP or any other party.” “Though I am pained at the Congress attitude towards me, I will remain a loyal worker of the party,” he said and emphasised that politics was not what it used to be, and therefore he wished to concentrate on social service.
Apparently, he was “hurt” by the raw deal given to him by the high command as well as the State Congress leadership.
He was in the Congress for about four decades. He was made member of the Rajya Sabha in 1990 and was nominated to the Legislative Council in 2001. When the Chikkodi constituency was made a general segment and its map was redrawn by including some parts of Sadalga into it to form the new “Chikkodi-Sadalga” constituency, he saw an opportunity to enter the Assembly from his home constituency. But, the Congress dashed his dream.
The Congress chose to field his arch rival and two-time MLA, Prakash B. Hukkeri, from there.
According to the grapevine, both the State and central leadership of the Congress were not happy with Mr. Kore’s favours to the Janata Dal (S)-BJP coalition government when the special legislature session was held on the KLE Society’s J.N. Medical College campus here in September, 2006.
Since then, Mr. Kore’s relationship with senior leaders had come under strain.
Belgaum ring road: Still a Dream
1:30 PM Posted by ukmad
1) Hindalga-Peeranwadi-Halga
2) Hindalga-Kakti-Halga
Total ring road length 38 kms.
Ring road breadth 100 feet
285 acres of land needed
Rs.1425 lakh for land acquisition
Ring road total expenditure Rs.30 crores
10 years ago, the plan for the ring road was prepared. Imagine, since ten years nothing has happened on ground; only papers have changed places and this road, which will be a boon to traffic, will remain a dream.
A jaipur-based company was allotted the contract for the project but it was cancelled and a new process for obtaining was commenced.
The BUDA chairman has attributed the cause for this delay to the elections. A state run enterprise is likely to do the said project this time.
May it be a state run enterprise or a private company, Belgaumites need that ring road as the movement of heavy vehicles will be diverted on to the new road giving the regular traffic some more space on the roads.
This road can avoid the enormous accidents that happen on the Udyambag road. In addition, vehicles going to Goa from Kolhapur etc can directly take the new road and avoid heavy traffic in city limits. It is the case with people from Goa to Kolhapur, if they divert from Peeranwadi they will join the NH 4 at Kakti. Towards Bangalore, you can join Halga on NH 4.
Pray to Lord that, this present govt will look into this and by the time they finish the full term we would be plying on the Ring Road.
Prabhakar B. Kore BJP Rajsabhya Candidate
8:15 AM Posted by ukmad
The BJP delivered a jolt to Congress by picking its leader and Belgaum educationist Prabhakar Kore as its candidate for Rajya Sabha polls.
Prabhakar Kore to address Meeting of steering panel on health in Washington DC from Sunday
12:07 PM Posted by ukmad
The global network consists of eminent researchers in the field of women’s and children’s health.
KLE Society’s J.N. Medical College in the city has established collaboration with the University of Missouri in Kansas City with Richard Derman (UMKC) and B.S. Kodkany (JNMC) as principal investigators.
For the past eight years, the team has produced evidence that both maternal mortality and infant mortality can be reduced significantly in rural community of Belgaum by using simple, cost-effective and easy-to-implement interventions.
Mr. Kore said here on Wednesday that he would address the members of the steering committee on the impact of research results from Belgaum on the Prime Minister’s initiative of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). The goal of NRHM is to reduce MMR (maternal mortality rate) and IMR (infant mortality rate) by two-thirds by 2012.
J Ravishankar is the new DC for Belgaum
1:16 PM Posted by ukmad
J Ravishankar is the new DC for Belgaum. The outgoing M E Shivalinga Murthy is now Director Mines andGeology.
Belgaum Monsoon
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The picture taken by Mr.Bharat M of Sadashiv Nagar, Belgaum.
Belgaum Cantonment Board Elections
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Revamp of belgaum airport by 2008
7:43 AM Posted by ukmad
Apart from the 35 airports taken up for modernisation, the AAI (Airports Authority of India) will invest around Rs 490 crore to develop 11 smaller airports like Akola, Belgaum, Cooch Behar, Gondia, Surat and Srinagar. All these airports are also projected to be developed by the end of 2008.
HC circuit benches from July 7: Vedike to organise ‘Bangalore Chalo’
12:44 PM Posted by ukmad
Source The Hindu & Rediff.com
The long-cherished dream of the people of North Karnataka will become a reality on July 7 this year. Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court Cyriac Joseph issued a notification that the circuit benches of Karnataka High Court at Dharwad and Gulbarga will commence work from July 7.
On the orders of the chief justice, high court registrar issued a notification in this regard. The full bench of the high court which met on Tuesday passed a resolution permitting sitting of judges at the newly-established circuit benches at Dharwad on Gulbarga.
Wednesday's notification states that the cases from the districts of Bagalkot, Bellary, Belgaum, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, Koppal and Uttara Kannada will be heard at Dharwad while those from Bijapur, Bidar, Gulbarga and Raichur will be heard in Gulbarga. Pending cases will be transferred to the respective circuit benches before July 7, 2008. Filing of new cases at the circuit benches will be permitted from July 7, 2008.
Vedike to organise ‘Bangalore Chalo’
The construction of new high court buildings at Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI) in Dharwad is nearing completion. Government will be urged to start work on Suvarna Vikasa Soudha’
The district unit of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike will organise “Bangalore Chalo” agitation on June 16 to bring pressure on the State Government to start work on Suvarna Vikasa Soudha in Belgaum city.
The vedike will also ask the Government to expedite all the development projects that have been put on hold in the wake of the Assembly elections, according to president of the district unit of the vedike Rajeev Topannavar.
He told presspersons here on Saturday that the a large number of workers of the vedike would stage a protest in front of Vidhana Soudha on June 16 against the “lackadaisical” attitude of the Government towards development requirements of Belgaum district.
Several promises
The Janata Dal (Secular)-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition Government had made several promises with regard to development of the district, but none of them were implemented, he said.
The vedike would urge the Government to set up an Export Promotion Council to encourage export of foundary products and sweets; start work on information technology and biotechnology parks, textile park, underground sewage scheme and Belgaum-Chorla road development project; announce a special package for renovation of Kannada medium schools in border areas, and accord taluk status to Kittur.
Monsoon on time in Belgaum
7:43 AM Posted by ukmad
Yesterday morning at about nine am the first showers hit the city and to the pleasant surprise they were heavy giving you an idea of what is in store this season.
Later the whole day it was quite sunny & late in the evening the clouds started to gather again. Since this morning it’s raining, not very heavily tough. Temperature has fallen and now the heat wave is no more and the Belgaum cold will start its journey. The monsoon has come on time and this time the rains could be heavy to very heavy that what the met dept. has forecasted. So be prepared for bad roads, water logging and host of other problems.
But the best way to start is say “Welcome Monsoons”
Elephants ride
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Belgaum: Petrol 58.37 Diesel: 39.99 Prices
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K'taka: Cong MLAs worth Rs 256 crore; BJP 203 crore
12:39 PM Posted by ukmad
The special Legislative session in Karnataka gets underway on Wednesday. The Congress, which will sit in opposition, leads the table with candidates with very high assets while the ruling BJP comes second, indicates statistics available with Karnataka Election Watch.
The Congress has 35 MLAs with very high assets (Rs 20 crore and above) and their total worth is Rs 256.6 crore. In 2004, the party after the election was worth just Rs 54.2 crore which would mean that the party has seen a 373 per cent jump in the last four years.
The Congress, incidentally, has the richest two MLAs in the 224-member House.
M Krishnappa, from the Vijay Nagar constituency in Bengaluru, is worth Rs 147.88 crore. His liabilities are estimated at Rs 69.85 crore.
Second on the list is Feroz Nurrudin Sait (Congress) from the Belgaum Uttar constituency with assets and liabilities estimated at Rs 58.55 crore and Rs 0 respectively.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has 40 MLAs with very high assets and their total worth is Rs 203.8 crore as against the Rs 51.4 crore in the 2004 elections. The party has seen a jump of 296 per cent in the past four years.
Anand Singh from the Vijayanagara constituency is the richest BJP MLA with assets worth Rs 57. 34 crore. The liabilities of Singh who is also the third richest MLA are estimated at Rs 7.37 crore.
The JD(S), which came third in the election with just 28 seats, has 16 MLAs with very high assets and are worth Rs 112.9 crore. The richest MLA from the JD(S) is H D Kumaraswamy, the former chief minister of the state. Kumaraswamy who won from the Ramanagar constituency, 50 km from Bangalore is worth Rs 30.20 crore, thus making him the ninth richest MLA in the House. His liabilities are estimated at Rs 23.12 crore.
Shortage of textbooks haunts children again
12:39 PM Posted by ukmad
Though the academic year has commenced, non-availability of textbooks is haunting schoolchildren again.
This problem has been confronting students every year, particularly since 2003. However, the education authorities have failed to respond to the problem by ensuring that all textbooks are made available on time, said M.V. Chavan, president, the Belgaum Association of Parents, while submitting a memorandum to the Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI) here on Wednesday.
He said the association filed a writ petition in the Karnataka High Court on May 29 in this regard. The court has asked the Government to submit its position in the matter.
Thus, the association has urged the DDPI, Belgaum, to declare to the public the exact position of the availability of textbooks and when they would be made available to students
