Steps to make it mandatory to plant saplings in Housing Scheme: Minister Khader
Mangaluru, August 01: Urban Development and Housing Minister UT Khader said that steps would be taken to make it mandatory to plant saplings of neem, basil and other plants of medicinal values and other daily usable plants in front of all houses to be constructed under the Housing Scheme.
Inaugurating Environmental Protection Day organized by various organizations and the Pollution Control Board at town hall here on Wednesday, the Minister said that environment should be created to plant saplings in each house so that each house would contribute in environment conservation.
Implementation of pollution control law: Onus on officials
The Minister said that the officials have the onus to implement the law to control pollution effectively. If the officials failed to discharge their duties, people and environment would have to face the problem. So, people from all walks of life should cooperate with the stakeholders because, law alone could not control the pollution, he said.
‘Sustainable development with environment’
“Development is a must for the growth of the society. If the development programmes taken up in the society became harmful to the environment, the future generation would have to face the problem. So, sustainable development models should be initiated to conserve the environment”, he said.
MLAs Vedavyas Kamath and Harish Kumar, district Legal Aid Authority judge Mallanna Gowda, ZP president Meenakshi Shantigodu, Divisional Forest Conservator Dr V Karikalan, City Corporation Commissioner Muhammad Nazir, Prof G Srinikethan of NITK, Additional Deputy Commissioner Kumar, Small Screen Actor Harsha, District Pollution Control Board Officer Rajashekar Puranik and others were present.
The winners in various competitions organized as part of the programme were given away prizes. The organizations which have been contributing for the environmental conservation were also felicitated.
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Maharashtra Congress chief Patole meets Kharge, dismisses resignation talk as 'rumours'
New Delhi, Nov 25: Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Monday dismissed as "rumours" talk of his resignation following the assembly polls debacle and stressed on "collective accountability" for the defeat.
Patole made the remarks after meeting Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge during which he conveyed that the result had not reflected the sentiments of the people of Maharashtra.
"Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and other national and state leaders were leading Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) from the forefront during the assembly polls. So, we were sure that the trends were in favour of Maha Vikas Aghadi, even the citizens believed that," the Maharashtra Congress chief said.
"If I talk about Nanded, the Lok Sabha bypolls and assembly elections were held on the same day. In Lok Sabha bypolls, our candidate was winning in six assembly seats, whereas, in the assembly elections, we are not winning even a single seat," he said, adding that there cannot be such a "huge difference".
This is the sentiment among the people also and they have stated that this government in Maharashtra was not being formed on their votes, he claimed.
"So, I spoke to Mallikarjun Kharge on this," he added.
Asked whether he had offered to resign or the party had asked for his resignation after the Maharashtra assembly polls defeat, Patole said, "These are all rumours and there is no truth in them. There is collective accountability."
Patole also said he will meet Rahul Gandhi in a day or two and discuss all issues.
"Democracy is being finished. We have discussed that... there was no talk of resignation," he said.
The MVA alliance, comprising the Congress, NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) and Shiv Sena (UBT), was restrained to 46 seats by the Mahayuti that reaped a rich harvest of 230 seats in the 288-member House.
