Residents of Padubidri are sore over the MESCOM authorities for their failure in replacing an electricity pole on the Karkala road in the town which is dangerously standing in a suspended position.
Mohammad Ali, Opposition Leader in the Puttur TMC has lodged a complaint with the Directorate of Municipal Administration alleging that the TMC has incurred much losses due to the appointment of a driver on contract basis even when the TMC had three drivers recruited by the government.
There are complaints galore of late that a few non-vegetarian hotels operating in the vicinity of the bus stand of Puttur have failed to maintain cleanliness and were even serving stale food to the customers. The hotels also lack cleanliness, complain many member of the general public. Quarrels between the hotel owners and the customers over the issue have also become common these days.
Efforts made by the KPTCL officials to destroy trees and plants in Ellur village to enable drawing of hi-tension power transmission lines from the UPCL plant to Hassan were thwarted by the villagers on May 14, Monday.
Some solution has been found to the impasse over the Kannada film “Katariveera Surasundarangi” after the film producer Muniratna agreed to cut the objectionable scenes from the film. It may be recalled here that the Bhajrangdal had recently stalled the screening of films in two theatres in Mangalore alleging that Hindu Gods and Goddesses have been denigrated in the film.
A team of NHAI officials and elected representatives which visited various places in Kundapur and Udupi where the NH widening works are on, heard the grievances of the public.
An incident in which street lights were unauthorisedly fixed to an electricity pole located on a private road, has been reported near the Udayadri Temple on old KEB Road in Padubidri.
The visit of Rajya Sabha Member and AICC General Secretary Oscar Fernandes to Mulki to inspect the NH works, created some sort of confusion when an earlier controversy over the bye-pass/fly-over proposal at Mulki cropped up.
The Canara Times had recently reported about a leaning electricity pole in Karkala. Now a similar leaning pole has been noticed near Darbe in Puttur. The pole is leaning to such an extent that it is virtually coming into contact with the electricity cable.
Suresh Bhat Bakrabail, District President of the Komu Sauharda Vedike has submitted several documents as evidences before the Regional Commissioner of Mysore who is investigating into his complaint against Deputy Commissioner Chennappa Gowda and Mangalore Police Commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh who had sported saffron shawl at a function at Kalladka some time back.