Here's how people of DK and Kasargod can commute between their Districts
Mangaluru: District Administrations of Kasargod and Dakshina Kannada have issued Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for people to travel between the two neighboring Districts that are part of two different states.
Hundreds of residents of both districts commute between their respective Districts daily for jobs and studies, the current lockdown due to COVID 19 spread has affected the movement of the people.
With the lockdown relaxed and the nation now heading towards a phased exit from the lockdown, Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner, Sindhu B Rupesh said the students and people of Kasargod working in Dakshina Kannada will be issued special travel passes for daily use.
“People in Kasargod, who wish to get the passes to Dakshina Kannada, should register at https://bit.ly/dkdpermit the applicants should also provide their complete details, the address proof, and details of the employer in Dakshina Kannada, Aadhaar card copy while registering their name.” said the deputy commissioner.
“The passes, which will be issued by Mangaluru Assistant Commissioner, will be valid till June 30,” she added.
The Kasargod district collector has said that people from Dakshina Kannada who need passes to visit Kasargod should register with the Covid-19 Jagratha portal. The passes will be issued by the district administration and will be valid for 28 days.
Both the district administration heads said that the officials at the Talapady check-post will record the pass details of the users on a daily basis. There will also be a round of thermal screening at the check-post and only asymptomatic people will be permitted to enter the other district.
Rupesh warned that people who fail to report their exit from Dakshina Kannada will be put under quarantine by the Taluk administration and action will also be taken against them under the Epidemic Act.
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Chhattisgarh coal levy scam: Rs 4 crore assets of suspended IAS officer attached
Raipur (PTI): The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has attached properties of Rs 4 crore belonging to suspended IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi, an accused in a coal levy scam, for allegedly amassing assets beyond his known sources of income, officials said.
The EOW had registered a disproportionate assets case against Vishnoi in July 2024, an official release said on Saturday.
During the investigation, the agency identified nine immovable properties, valued at around Rs 4 crore, allegedly acquired through illicit means in the names of Vishnoi’s family members and associated firms, it said.
“An application seeking attachment of these properties was filed before the Special Court under the Prevention of Corruption Act in Raipur. Following a hearing on April 17, the court ordered attachment of all such properties,” the statement said.
Accordingly, the Anti-Corruption Bureau/Economic Offences Wing attached the properties. The attached properties cannot be sold or transferred, it said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier provisionally attached five immovable properties linked to Vishnoi in connection with the coal levy scam, it added.
Proceedings are also underway in cases involving other public servants, including action taken in September last year against properties linked to Saumya Chaurasia, who was deputy secretary in the chief minister’s office during the Congress government, the statement said.
Vishnoi, a 2009-batch Indian Administrative Service officer, was first arrested in 2022 by the ED in connection with the alleged coal levy scam. He was among several accused who were granted bail last year by the Supreme Court.
The case refers to an alleged Rs 540 crore racket between July 2020 and June 2022, when an illegal levy of Rs 25 per tonne was being extorted by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen for every tonne of coal transported in the state.
