Weekly Saturday market was in existence before 1880- Still this Weekly market is on
Wholesale grain merchants were in Raviwar Peth and even today the same story
Woolen- silk materials sold in Khade Bazar road then – Still the same continues
 Belgaum has about 250 traders chiefly Brahmans, Lingayats, Narvekars, Mardthas, Gujaratisand Marwar Vanis, Parsis, and Musalmans with capitals varying from £500 to £20,000 (Rs. 5000 to
Es. 2,00,000). Some have capital of their own and others trade on borrowed funds. Almost all are independent traders. The chief imports are timber, ironware, glass and other European articles, metal vessels, salt, and coconuts. Timber is bought at the Government stores in Kanara and sold at Belgaum to private persons and Ironware, glassware, and other European articles are brought from Bombay by Vengurla in the fair season and by Poona during the rains ; they are sold to petty dealers and to Brass and copper vessels are brought from Poona and consumers local use ; salt and coconuts are brought from Goa and Vengurla both for local use and to be sent inland.
 The chief exports are of grain, rice & wheat, gram, millet, and pulses, and of cloth waistcloths and womens robes.
Grain is bought by grain by merchants at Belgaum from petty corn dealers and growers and sent to Goa and Vengurla. The waistcloths (Dhotis) and robes (Sarees) are brought by cloth merchants from local weavers.
The chief industry is cotton weaving with a yearly turnover valued at about £11,500 (Rs. 1,15,000). The making of -carpets and copper vessels and spinning and dyeing raw silk are the only other industries. Oil-pressing is a very thriving calling in Belgaum and several of the well-off Telis let bullock carriages called dhamnis or Sarvats on hire. Belgaum has seven tanneries to the south of the cantonment near the distillery ; six dyers in indigo, and twenty-two in safflower or kusumba. There are two lime kilns and two small tile kilns to the south of the town.
The municipal vegetable market in the heart of the town was built by the municipality in 1866 at a cost of about £760 (Rs. 7600). The market has fifty-two stalls which yield a yearly rent- of about
£120 (Rs. 1200). The stalls are arranged in the form of a square enclosing an open space which is occupied by cloth merchants on the Saturday weekly market. All round on the outside of the market is an open space which is occupied by squatters who come daily with vegetables and on Saturday by people from the neighboring villages who come with small quantities of grain. Beyond it is a further open space where cart men are allowed to stand with their grain and wood carts.
At the Saturday weekly market all kinds of grain, country cloth, groceries, firewood, grass, earthen vessels, and vegetables are brought from the villages within a radius of twenty miles from Belgaum and exposed for sale. Cattle and timber market is also held on Saturday in an empty plot of ground
to the east of the town and fort where milch buffaloes and cows, he- buffaloes and bullocks, ponies, timber, rafters, and bamboos are sold.
The other municipal markets are the mutton market and slaughter house built in 1872 at a cost of £41 6 (Rs. 4160) and yielding a yearly income of £70 (Rs. 700) ; a fish market built in 1872 at a cost of £102 10s. (Rs. 1025) and yielding a yearly revenue of £4 (Rs.40) a beef market built in 1873 at a cost of £124 14s. (Rs. 1247) and yielding £15 (Rs. 150) a second slaughter-house yielding £18
(Rs. 180); and a cart stand built in 1875 at a cost of £347 (Rs. 3470) and yielding £40 (Rs. 400).
 Besides the special market room provided by the municipality, both sides of the Khade Bazar road are occupied by shops of Narvekars, Bohoras, and Marwaris where groceries, woolen and silk cloths, English piece-goods, and oilman's stores are sold.
The Bhendi Bdzar has a few cloth merchants' shops where hand loom waistcloths, turbans, and women's robes are sold. In the same street ready-made native clothing iron and brassware and confectionery are sold at a few shops. All the wholesale grain and salt merchants live and have their shops in the Aditvar (Raviwar) Peth.

The Shivaganga Roller Skating Club's rink in Khasbag, Belgaum on Wednesday witnessed a moment of honor when Indian roller skaters not only broke the existing world record in non-stop inline hockey.
Thirty-two skaters from Belgaum and across the country accomplished the task in the presence of international referees Mayne Chow and Andrew Spongle (both from Hong Kong) representing the Federation of International Roller Sports.
It all bega on on Tuesday at 2.25 p.m and with a goal at 3.25 p.m. on Wednesday the previous record was borken. A.D. Sharma, who is also a senior official from Department of Sports, Government of Haryana, declared to have broken the world record.
The players continued to be at the rink and played till 8.30 p.m. and set a new world record of playing for 30 hours non-stop.
Playing 30 hours non-stop under natural rainfall is a new category in itself for a record.
Amit Sharma, Gurpreet, Gurjap, Gurnazar, Prabjot, Aakash, Gaurav Bhattal, Jaspreet, Rajesh Singh, Babli Singh, Reekhansh, Surender Pal Sodhi, Mohit Yadav, Kapil Gehlot, Nikhil Chindak, Aniket, Atul Sharma, Wayne Chow, Anshul Sood, Sourab Duggal, Ankit Chindak, Anuradha Sood, Andre Spongle, Manpreet, Jitender Singh, Anjali Singh, Kiran, Siddiqui, Ankit, Navraj and Sammerai participated in the event.

Here is a quick vie of the new Inox Chandan from the inside.

Sameer Siddique, Ratheesh Kumar and Aadil Bandukwala(Belgaum) flagged off their Tantalizing India trip today at 6pm from Bangalore.
The trio plan to cover pan India 16000 kms in 18 days thus breaking the previous record of 19 days plus.
The trio has got good corporate support for the trip and sponsors were present to flag them off.


The will now take this route
Bangalore (Karnataka) – Vellore – Chennai (Tamil Nadu) – Puducherry (Puducherry) – Madurai (Tamil Nadu) – Thiruvananthapuram – Kochi – Kozhikode (Kerala) – Mangalore – Karwar (Karnataka) – Panaji – Mapusa (Goa) – Belgaum (Karnataka) and plan to reach Belgaum in about 40 hours time.
They will face a lot of bad weather as they enter Kerala as the Met dept. has warned for heavy to very heavy showers in the next 48 hours in the Kerala, Konkan & Goa regions.

Noted English author Manohar Malgonkar ages 97 passed away yesterday at his bungalow named Burbusa in remote Jabalpet in Joida, Uttara Kannada district.
Born in a Royal family on July 12 ,1913. He graduated from Bombay University in English and Sanskrit. He served in the Maratha Light Infantry, in counter-intelligence, and on the Army's General Staff during the Second World War, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He later took to business and farming. He owned and operated manganese mines near Jagalbet.
Malgonkar has to his credit eight novels and nearly 50 stories. He has also been an acclaimed writer of non-fiction and history. For several years Manohar Malgonkar’s weekly column covering a wide range of topics featured in Indian newspapers including The Statesman and Deccan Herald.
He had a very good connection with Belgaum and often visited the city.
He wrote five English novels: Distant Drum (1960), Combat of Shadows (1962), The Princes (1963), A Bend in the Ganges (1964), and The Devil's Wind (1972). His works of history are Kanhoji Angrey (1959), Puars of Dewas Senior (1962), and Chhatrapatis of Kolhapur (1971). He wrote scripts for movies,short stories and many newspaper articles.

Belgaum needs new solutions. New ways of thinking. A proactive approach on the many challenges that the city faces in its drive to be a modern city on par with other cities in the world. Going by recent developments: the size of the city and its population of over 7 lacs; the fact that it will hold political relevance as the winter capital of the state; the funds being allocated to the city from centre sponsored schemes such as JnURM; the assurance of funds from the chief minister and the collections on the corporation taxes, the city is looking at a corpus of close to 800 crores, which would be invested in urban development in the near future.
A key area of focus that BelgaumNext will bring to fore would be on the issue of better infrastructure systems that will play a critical role in Belgaum’s development, since it constitutes the backbone, the nerves and arteries of the urban system. The planned infrastructure systems must ensure the adequate provision of water, energy and transport services, and the effective removal of waste water and solid wastes, so that we can have a healthy living environment. When we have good transportation systems, we will be less inclined to use our own vehicles. When we have better roads and connectivity, we will be more productive and also face less congestion and pollution. With a stable system of power and power generation, the dependency on utilizing fossil fuel generators would reduce. If homes and commercial zones are designed well, then there will be better utilization of available energy with a lighter footprint on the environment.
Belgaum’s sustainable development is not a one-time goal – it will be an ongoing process in which the harmony between society, economy and environment will be ensured at all times.
Unfortunately, the establishment has been equating so called development with superficial work such as maintenance of roads that at times do not need attention. There is a gross misuse of funds in the name of development. With BelgaumNext, we aim to build awareness and put the spotlight on such misappropriation of public money with an idea to and to initiate an open and frank two way discussion on the issues prevalent.
The Agenda
Our agenda is to ensure sustainable development. So what is sustainable development? The most popular definition of sustainable development could be described as ‘meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet theirs”. Though there are different views and interpretations, it could be loosely defined as an ideal system with a set of wishful characteristics. Our idea of sustainable development isn’t limited only to infrastructure. We plan to have initiatives across sectors such as Infrastructure, Education, Healthcare, Power & Utilities, Waste management and Environment. We aim to achieve our objectives by creating a participatory dialogue that includes people from across industry, government and the academia. The resulting directions would form the blueprint or the actionable paths to work on.

Rains have been welcomed by all farmers and citizens as well. But the rain also brought it with itself the problem of water logging in various areas.
Globe theater road was full of water, other low lying areas were also drowned in the first rains, tough no heavy damages were reported.
In the next few days similar rains are expected by the met dept.
Happy Rains and enjoy the monsoons.

Engine and four coaches of the Miraj-Hubli express derailed at Tavaragatti station on Hubli-Londa section on Tuesday in the wee hours of the morning.
No injuries were reported but due to this time table of trains was disrupted.
Following the derailment, Chennamma express from Dharawad and Kolhapur, Hubli-Bellary-Dharwad passenger and Londa-Hubli passenger trains have been cancelled.
In the wake of the incident, the Bangalore-Jodhpur express has been diverted via Gadag, Bijapur, Sholapur and Pune, Dadar-Yeshavantpur Chalukya express regulated at Belgaum railway station and Tirupati—Kholhaur Haripriya express at Hubli and Howrah-Amaravati express at Londa.

Year	Population
1820	7652
1852	13000
1866	16514
1868	24366
1872	26947
1881	32697

 The earliest record of Belgaum population is in 1820, when it had population of 7652people lodged in 1309 houses. One- third of these were Marathas, one-sixth Musalmdins mostly connected with religious establishments, one-sixth Lingayats, one-eighth Jains, one-ninth Brahmans chiefly
Deshasths and Karhades, and the rest artisans of various sorts.
The choice of Belgaum as the head-quarters of the Collectorate and as the chief military station in the Karnataka brought a large accession to the population, chiefly Marwadi traders, Madrasi Mhar
and Pendhari camp followers, and upper class Hindus in Government.
In 1852 the population of Belgaum including the village of Khasbag and probably Shahpur amounted to about 30,000 including between 13,000 to 14,000 who lived in the camp. In 1866 the town population numbered 16,514.
Increasing to 19,371 and to 24,366 in the next two years. In 1870 the opening of the Amboli pass and the direct communication with the port of Vengurla in Ratnagiri brought a further increase to the trade and population of the town.
The 1872 census showed a population of 26,947, of whom 19,384 were Hindus, 5517 Muslims, 1757 Christians, and 289 Others.
The 1881 census gave for the city a population of 23,115 and for the Cantonment of 9582, that is a total population of 32,697. Of these 22,939 were Hindus, 7136 Muslims, 2481 Christians, 53 Parsis and 88 Jews. This on 1725 square acres gives an average density of about nineteen to the square acre.
Belgaum does not appear to have been a large town either under the Houses, Musalmans (1350-1750) or under the Marathas (1750-181 8). In 1820 two years after its capture it had 1309 houses lodging about 7700 persons, and of these a good many must have been added in 1818 when about 300 houses in the fort were pulled down. In 1820 the houses which were thinly scattered are described as better than in most parts of India.
In 1872 Belgaum had 4388 houses, 827 of which were of the better. These lodged 26,947 persons or and 3561 of the poorer sort. Average of 6.14 persons to each house. Of late the town has spread towards the north-west and south-west and many houses have been built chiefly by husbandmen who hold land near the town. In 1881 the number of houses was increased to 7713. All the houses are tiled.

Source: Gazeetteer of Bombay Presidency (1884)

Various parts of the city have reported increased cases of people affected with Gastroenteritis.

Areas like Ganeshpur, Peeranwadi, Uchagon have been badly affected.
Yesterday about 85 people were admitted with Gastro from Ganeshpur.
People have been advised to drink only boiled and cooled water.
Gastroenteritis (also known as gastric flu, although unrelated to influenza) is inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, involving both the stomach and the small intestine and resulting in acute diarrhea. It can be transferred by contact with contaminated food and water. The inflammation is caused most often by an infection from certain viruses or less often by bacteria, their toxins, parasites, or an adverse reaction to something in the diet or medication.

Sunday June 20, 2010 starting from Kittur Rani Chennamma circle at 8 am
Belgaumnext.com - City of Pride, an initiative by proactive Belgaumites, will host a marathon event on Sunday June 20, 2010 starting from Kittur Rani Chennamma circle to promote and create awareness of the forthcoming conference on sustainable development and next generation infrastructure systems for Belgaum in July.
The event will be attended by dignitaries, government officials, celebrities, industrialists, students & businessman from Belgaum.
The “Run for Belgaum's Development”, will benefit in bringing awareness regarding the issues taken up to ensure systematic & sustainable development of Belgaum city.
“The marathon event will lead to creation of awareness regarding various people to people initiatives taken up by Belgaumnext. The event will also promote public and multi party participation process in development and infrastructure activities taken up by Government and local bodies. The main objective is to create awareness in people and to get them involved in the decision making process so that they become proactive in the community and they city will lead to systematic development said Mr. Rajeev Topannavar, Director, Belgaumnext. “With the help of local administration & citizens of Belgaum, we anticipate enthusiastic participation, in large numbers, for the marathon.”
About Belgaumnext
“Belgaum Next” is a open platform for all Belgaumites desiring to witness, Belgaum prosper and develop in a sustainable & systematic environment. It is an effort to bring all citizens of Belgaum under one common roof in order to achieve enthusiastic people to people participation in upgrading the status of Belgaum.

AllAboutBelgaum.com is now on BGM's official website as important district websites.
http://belgaum.nic.in/distsites.html
AAB is the only private website to be listed on the important district websites page.
This is a great achievement for a small blog like AAB.
Thanks readers for making it upto here.

INOX Chandan opens today (Thrusday) evening
Todays Shows: Rajneeti at 5.45 pm, 6pm & 8.45 pm
Huu (kanada movie) 5.30 & 9.15 pm
Prince of Persia at 8.45pm.
Inox Chandan has three screens and capacity of 897 persons. Online ticket booking has not yet been activated.