Mangalore : Ramesh Kotian, a former Mangalore Mayor passed away at KMC on Sunday night, April 3 here, after a brief illness. He was the mayor for an year from May 1994 to June 1995, and later from June 1999 to May 2000 for six months.
Funeral is arranged for Monday, April 4. In his second tenure, Kotian brought about the much – needed face-lifts to the port city, pertaining to Hampankatta bus stand and setting up several commercial complexes. HUDCO came forwarded to finance these schemes. He asked the Asian development Bank at Japan to help city’s underground drainage system.