Mangaluru: India Post Payments Bank launched
Mangaluru, Sept 01: With the launch of India Post Payments Bank across the nation today, Union Minister DV Sadananda Gowda launched the Mangaluru branch at the Kudmul Rangarao Town Hall in the city.
Speaking at the occasion, Gowda said, "This is a century programme that will add the last man to the country’s economic system.” The dream of Prime Minister's Digital India is now being fulfilled through this program, he added.
The program is aimed at expanding the service to 1.55 lakh access points by December 2018, which will enable Modi to open a new chapter of development and good governance. Today, 650 branches of the country and 3,250 access points have been commissioned, Minister Sadananda Gowda said.
MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLA Vedavasya Kamath, senior officials of postal department Rajendra Kumar, Jagadish and others were present.
This facility has been started at Mangaluru’s Balmatta Branch. Access points have been opened at Balmatta, Katipalla, Kuttetturu, and Surinjae. In the second phase, it will be launched at Puttur subdivision. The postal department has an extensive network in the city, town and rural areas. With that, a home-based banking facility will be arranged through postman and other staff. Consumers can efficiently transact through biometric technology and OTP Using Aadhaar Card and Mobile.
Meantime, the event of Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching the nation-wide India Post Payments Bank was broadcasted on a big screen.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
