Mangaluru: City bus services in DK to resume from July 1
Mangaluru: The city and service buses in Mangaluru and Dakshina Kannada District will resume services starting July 1 nearly two months after the services were halted due to COVID lockdown.
The information was shared by Canara Bus Owners’ Association President Rajvarma Ballal and DK Bus Owners’ Association President Dilraj Alva.
Dilraj on Thursday added that the guidelines set by the government cannot be adhered to and accommodating on 50% capacity of passengers on the buses will not bring any income and profit to the bus owners. He also added that the situation is coupled with the hike in rates of diesel and they were also not in a position to hike the prices of tickets owing to the pandemic.
“We have put forth some of our demands before the government which have not been fulfilled yet. So we will look into the situation and resume services from July 1” Dilraj said.
Ballal noted that the disruption in bus services has hit the employees and bus owners alike and they are going through financial crunch due to the pandemic.
“Government is not paying heed to our demands and the employees and owners are going through crisis. We had detailed discussion on the matter today and have taken a decision about this” Ballal added.
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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.
