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City Corporation
defers pay and park proposal:
Mayor TB Chikkanna postponed the controversial
pay-and-park facility planned by the City Corporation,
following opposition from the Janata Dal (S) and BJP at
the recent council meeting held here. Opposition member
Narayana said the finance committee had given its approval
for the pay and park scheme. He appealed to members to
reject the corporation's proposal and urged the Mayor to
withdraw it as the pay and park scheme would not benefit
the city corporation. BJP corporator narendra said the pay
and park facility would be unscientific if there was no
insurance cover on vehicles.
George favors joint
patrolling of LoC:
Defence Minister George Fernandez said that the joint
patrolling move proposed by the External Affairs Minister
Yashwant Sinha on the Line of Control would improve the
situation in the border. He was reacting to Yashwant
Sinha's statement made at the SAARC meeting that India and
Pakistan could start joint patrolling to check
infiltration across the LoC. He said that the relationship
between both the countries would improve along with the
situation in the borders. George said that he was touring
the State to learn the problems of betel nut and coffee
growers, with whom he had held talks and received
innumerable memoranda. Admitting that he was convinced of
the seriousness of the matter. He said any delay in
solving their genuine problems in Karnataka, Kerala and
other areas would badly affect the farmers.
Government
blackmailing private institutions:
MLC Traffic was disrupted in the city, following a massive
protest rally by members of the private educational
managements, teachers and students in response to the
bandh call given by the Karnataka Private Educational
Institutions and Employees Association. The agitators
raised slogans against the Education Ministers and the
State Government and formed a human chain at K R Circle.
They were led by Association president Vasudev Murthy, MLC
Madhu Sudan and others demanding that the Government
release grant in aid to private institutions, stop
discrimination between Government and Private school
managements and meet all their demands.
KRS water level
touches 101.65 ft:
The water-level in the Krishnaraja Sagar reservoir, which
had touched rock bottom, shattering the hopes of farmers
in the region, has now increased to 101.65 ft. the
reservoir has recorded a steady increase in a couple of
days, following heavy rains in the Cauvery catchment area.
Irrigation officials have recorded an inflow of 19,271
cusecs in the Vishveshwariah and other irrigation canals.
The level was 110.65 ft against a maximum level of 124.8
ft in the previous year. The reservoir is expected to
receive a steady inflow, following heavy rains in the past
one week.
City schools, colleges
support bandh:
Private educational institutions in the City observed a
total bandh on Monday in Mysore and Chamrajanagar
districts. Schools remained closed in response to the
bandh called by the State Private Managements and
Employees Associations and Unaided Educational
Institutions managements. More than a 100 primary schools,
highs schools, first grade colleges and Pre university
colleges run by private managements remained closed. He
said the bandh would continue until the Government meets
their long-pending demands.
EC's decision should
be binding, says Deve Gowda:
Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda has condemned the
Union Cabinet's decision to refer the Election
Commission's decision on Gujarat polls to the President.
He has termed this decision "unwarranted" and
felt that the Election Commission's ruling should have
been binding. A constitutional authority like the Election
Commission cannot sway to the tune of the ruling BJP as
the latter had their own vested interest in conducting
early polls.
Correspondent
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