Mangaluru: Karnataka BJP President and Dakshina Kannada MP, Nalin Kumar Kateel on Saturday visited Pumpwell and reviewed construction work at the site along with local MLAs and corporators in Mangaluru.
Speaking to reporters during his visit Nalin Kumar added that the flyover will be completed by the end of December and will be opened for public use in first week of January, 2020.
“Various reasons had delayed the completion and inauguration of the flyover over the years. We are expecting the Navayuga to handover the completed flyover before 31 December this year” Nalin Kumar told reporters.
“Apart from technical problems, the Navayuga Company was under financial constraints. We sorted those after the review meeting in February in which secretary of Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari” Nalin Kumar said.
Pumpwell flyover has been jumping the deadline ever since it missed its first deadline where it had to be completed by March 2013. Since then the flyover has jumped at least eight deadlines.


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New Delhi (PTI): Opposition members in the Lok Sabha on Friday questioned the government's decision to move a bill to amend the 2023 women quota law before bringing the principal Act into force.
Soon after laying of parliamentary papers, K C Venugopal rose to point out a law ministry notification issued last night around 10 pm to bring into force the 2023 women's reservation law with effect from April 16, much after a bill to amend the Act was introduced and discussed in the House.
DMK's Kanimozhi also flagged the issue, wondering the logic in discussing an amendment after notifying the principal Act.
Opposition members sought a clarification from law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal who was present in the Lok Sabha.
"The Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam passed in September 2023 has come into force with being published in the Gazette only at 9.55 pm last night.
"It is shocking that the government brought amendments to a Constitutional provision that was not even published in the gazette! This shows the government’s unprepared and lackadaisical approach to serious lawmaking," Venugopal later posted on X.
He said this is also yet another evidence that the treasury benches look at the Parliament as no more than a rubber stamp, not bothered about the procedures and protocol necessary for a fair legislative process.
An official has earlier explained that bringing the law into force was essential as its proposed amendment will not have come into effect without that.
The constitution amendment Bill became a law but did not become part of the Constitution as the government did not bring it into force.
If a law does not come into force, how can its proposed amendment be implemented. Hence, it was brought into force with effect from April 16, the official explained.
