Agumbe ghat is open for movement of mini lorries
Order from Shivamogga district administration
Shivamogga, November 18: The district administration has relaxed the restriction imposed on the movement of heavy goods vehicles on Agumbe ghat road in Thirthahalli taluk and allowed the mini lorries to ply on the road.
Deputy Commissioner K.A. Dayanand issued an order to this effect. As a result, the mini lorries were plying on the ghat section from Sunday morning. Mini Lorry Owners Association welcomed the decision of the district administration.
Memorandum submitted
After allowing the lorries in Charmadi Ghats, there was a demand for the movement of lorries on Agumbe Ghat section. Recently, the Lorry Owners Association has submitted a memorandum to the district administration and it was also decided to stage a protest on the Agumbe ghat road on Monday. As the district administration allowed the mini lorries on the road, the association has called off the proposed protest.
Movement suspended
Agumbe region has received heavy rains in this season due to which, landslides occurred on either side of the road. in the last week July, the district administration banned the movement of heavy vehicles and trucks except the buses and passenger vehicles. Since the rain receded in the region, the Mini Lorry Owners and Drivers Association demanded the district administration to allow the movement of mini lorries on the road. Based on this, the deputy commissioner has asked the opinion of National Highway Authority, Shivamogga RTO regional commissioner and Sringeri assistant commissioner of RTO.
As the retention walls were constructed on the places where the landslides occurred and the rains receded, the authorities have given the report to the district administration to allow the vehicles of 4 tonne capacity. Based on the report, the Deputy Commissioner allowed the movement of the mini lorries.
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After arriving from Delhi, Shinde heads to his native village; Mahayuti meet likely on Sun
Mumbai(PTI): Outgoing Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who returned to Mumbai from New Delhi on Friday morning, is travelling to his native village in Satara district amid continuing suspense over his successor a week after the assembly poll results.
Shinde had told reporters in New Delhi on late Thursday night that the next meeting of the Mahayuti alliance on government formation will be held in Mumbai on Friday.
However, the caretaker CM, who heads the Shiv Sena, is travelling to his native village Dare in Satara district in western Maharashtra and the meeting is now expected to take place on Sunday, the sources said.
The Shiv Sena leader has repeatedly said he would not be an obstacle in the government formation and abide by the decisions taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the next chief minister.
Different viewpoints are emerging in the Shiv Sena over Shinde's place in the next government to be headed by the BJP, the biggest constituent in the Mahayuti, which posted a thumping win in the just-held assembly polls.
Many leaders in the Shiv Sena are asking Shinde to accept deputy CM's post if offered by the BJP. However, another section feels it wouldn't be right for him to accept No. 2 position after serving as CM for more than two-and-a-half years, the sources said.
"The government formation process will start after the BJP announces its legislature party leader," they said.
During his Delhi trip, Shinde had met Shah and discussed formation of the next government in the state. His deputies in the outgoing state cabinet Devendra Fadnavis (BJP) and Ajit Pawar (NCP) had also met the senior BJP leader.
Talking to reporters in the national capital, Shinde called the discussion “good and positive”.
Shinde, Fadnavis and Pawar had also met BJP president J P Nadda.
