Cleanliness in city, Minister UT Khader seeks cooperation of people
Urva Market, commercial complex inaugurated
Mangaluru, Jan 27: Urban Development Minister UT Khader appealed people of the city to cooperate to maintain the cleanliness of the city.
Inaugurating the Urva market and commercial complex, constructed by the Mangaluru Urban Development Authority and the Mangaluru City Corporation here on Sunday, he said that the city corporation has got the appreciation as the best city corporation in the state. To continue the same position, everyone should cooperate to maintain the cleanliness. People in the city have been paying the water cess honestly. But those who have multi-storied buildings have dues of huge tax. In order to solve this problem, the city corporation would take steps to disconnect the water supply to such multi-storied buildings automatically in coming days, the Minister said.
The commercial complex constructed at a cost of Rs 11.72 crore on 84891.45 sq ft, has 122 stalls. If them, 31 stalls were reserved for fish selling, 8 for chicken and 15 for office purposes, he said.
MLA Vedavyas Kamath presided over the programme in which Karnataka government parliamentary secretary Ivan D'Souza, mayor Bhaskar K, deputy commissioner Sasikanth Senthil, city corporation Commissioner Muhammad Nazeer, MUDA Commissioner Srikanth Rao, AEE Mohan Kumar, corporator Radha Krishna, sculptor Nelson GA Payas, contractor Abdul Asif and others were present.
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BMTC collects over Rs 19 lakh as fine from those travelling without tickets, occupying ladies seat
Bengaluru (PTI): The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has collected over Rs 19 lakh as a penalty from 10,069 passengers who were penalised for travelling without tickets and occupying seats exclusively reserved for ladies in the last three months, officials said on Thursday.
The checking staff of BMTC have intensified checking of buses operated in and around Bengaluru City to detect ticketless travelling by passengers, they said.
According to BMTC, during the months of August, September and October, the checking staff checked 57,219 trips and penalised 8,891 ticketless passengers by collecting Rs 17,96,030 as penalty and 5,268 cases were booked against conductors for their dereliction of duty.
During the same period, they have also penalised 1,178 male passengers for occupying seats exclusively reserved for lady passengers and imposed fines by collecting Rs 1,17,800 in accordance with the KMV (Karnataka Motor Vehicle) Rules of the MV Act of 1988.
"In total, during the months of August, September and October, 10,069 passengers were penalised and Rs 19,13,830 was collected," the BTMC officials stated.
