Mangaluru: The district administration has set up a committee to study and find a solution to the pollution of the Phalguni, according to Mohammad Nazir, Commissioner, Mangaluru City Corporation. The committee consists of officials from the city corporation, Revenue Department, Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, Department of Industries and Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), he […]
Mangaluru: The unabated discharge of untreated domestic and industrial sewage has not only severely polluted the Phalguni (Gurupura) and the Netravathi, which surround Mangaluru, but also affected groundwater quality in the city, allege environmentalists and social activists. Low levels of oxygen in Phalguni river had resulted in the death of several fish last summer, and […]
Mangaluru:The Union government has released ₹ 17.50 crore for repairing National Highway 169 between Karkala and Kulashekara (Mangaluru), according to Nalin Kumar Kateel, Member of Parliament. He said in a release that the government has agreed to construct a parallel bridge across the Phalguni in Gurupura on the highway at an estimated cost of ₹ […]
Mangaluru : The MRPL road, between Surathkal and Ganeshapura, will be developed as six-lane concrete road at an estimated cost of Rs 58 crore, according to B.A. Mohiuddin Bava, MLA, Mangaluru City North. Speaking at a function organised to lay the foundation stone for upgrading the main road inside Baikampady Industrial Area as concrete road […]
Mangaluru : Mayor Kavitha Sanil reiterated that industrial effluents have contaminated the Phalguni (Gurupura) water downstream of the Malavoor vented dam, the Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) on Wednesday resolved to constitute a House committee to recommend suitable action. The monthly meeting of MCC witnessed heated discussions and debates over contamination of the river water and […]
Mangaluru : A check dam constructed across River Gurupura (Phalguni), at Malavur in the taluk was commissioned as part of the multi-village drinking water supply project, making it a first-of-its-kind project to be started in the district on Tuesday at Malavoor. Speaking the gathering after the inauguration, district in-charge minister Ramanath Rai said,It will ensure […]
Mangaluru : All the companies that produce hydro power by drawing water from major rivers — Netravati, Kumaradhara and Phalguni — in Dakshina Kannada can generate electricity after December 10 only if there is surplus inflow into the rivers. Deputy Commissioner K.G. Jagadeesha, who is also the District Magistrate, passed this order at a meeting […]
Mangaluru : The district-level sand monitoring committee has permitted scaled down extraction of sand from three rivers in the coastal regulatory zone (CRZ). About 7.81 lakh tonnes of sand could be extracted. Thought the order was issued on April 16, it was not made public, at least through the media, for reasons best known to […]
Mangaluru : Hostile weather has come in the way of water supply to the popular tourist destination of Dr. Shivaram Karanth Pilikula Nisargadhama. If the scarcity continues for another week, then more than thousand birds and animals under captivity at the Pilikula biological park will be left in the lurch. The nisargadhama usually lifted over […]
Mangaluru : Around 400 acres of land in the vicinity of Kunjathbail, including the banks of the Phalguni (popularly called Gurupur river), in the city be developed as an integrated township under the proposed smart city project? The suggestion came on the first day of the two-day conference on ‘sustainable smart cities of India’ here […]
