Mangaluru: Niveus Solutions Pvt. Ltd., an award-winning Google Cloud partner on Thursday inaugurated its largest office in the country here in Mangaluru.

Sprawling across 16,000 sq. ft, with a seating capacity of 210 staff, it is the largest office of the company in India. The company has around 300 employees working from various locations in India and Singapore.

Speaking after the inauguration of the new office, actor Rakshith Shetty said he was surprised to see Mangaluru and Udupi becoming base for a global cloud engineering organization such as Niveus. He said there was lot of untapped potential in the region, be it in technology, medicine, or even arts. When the talent gets access to the right infrastructure, there was no limit to what they could achieve, he said.

Niveus CEO Suyog Shetty said the organization has seen tremendous growth in business and operations in recent times, registering an over 300% growth year on year. The Mangaluru office offers opportunities to software professionals in the region where the immense pool of talent is available from the education hub. The setup is another key step to attracting and retaining the best of talents in the region, he said.

Niveus has been empowering industry leaders, including top private banks and leading asset management companies, and customers to leverage cloud technologies and harness the power of cloud services to build resilient infrastructures that scale. It recently expanded to the ASEAN region, setting up a hub in Singapore and onboarding new customers.

Niveus was funded in 2013 by Suyog Shetty, Rashmi George, Roshan Bava, and Mohsin Khan.

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Bengaluru, Dec 7: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Saturday said there won't be any political "witch hunting", while taking action on the recommendations of the Justice Michael D' Cunha Commission, which investigated alleged irregularities in the purchase of equipment and medicines during the Covid-19, when the BJP was in power.

Officials have been asked to take action "based on facts". A separate committee will be formed at the official level, also involving some retired officials, to look into the report, "for guiding and for follow up action", he said.

The cabinet sub-committee headed by Shivakumar constituted to take further action based on the report met here today to review.

"Today, we held a second cabinet sub-committee meeting...we have only reviewed. We have asked the officials to take action, as per law, based on the recommendations and findings of the Justice Michael D' Cunha Commission report," Shivakumar told reporters after the meeting.

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Departmental inquiries on officials will be done as per procedures. "Justice Cunha has also recommended criminal inquiry on some, that will also happen separately... legally whatever has to be done like -- booking FIR or disciplinary action or anything else, will be done in accordance with law," he said.

The sub-committee will once again meet in Belagavi and will review the progress. "The cabinet sub-committee will not be directly involved. Whatever the procedure is, the officials will do it themselves... we (govt) will not indulge in witch hunting, but we can't hush up or close what is there in the report...we have told officials to take action based on facts," Shivakumar said.

"We are looking into the recommendations of the committee. Officials are empowered and they will do their duty," he added.

The preliminary report was submitted by Justice Michael D' Cunha on August 31.

The government then decided to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) and a cabinet sub-committee to take further action on the report.

To a question regarding constituting the SIT, Shivakumar said, "You will get to know. It is in process. Once it comes, we will release it."

The Deputy CM also said that the government has rejected a report on the death of several people due to oxygen shortage at Covid hospital in Chamarajanagar in May 2021. "We will have to re-look it."

"...our government doesn't agree with that report that there was nothing in the tragic death of 36 people in Chamarajanagar hospital. We will have to relook it. CM Siddaramaiah and I had assessed the situation there. We also had then visited the homes of 36 victims. But the then Minister (BJP government) had said that only three people had died due to oxygen shortage," he explained.

Shivakumar said, according to officials, the commission's reports point out that as many as 84 lakh RTPCR tests are said to have been done in Bengaluru city at a cost of Rs 502 crore. Rs 400 crore has already been released as well. "This means that two people from each household were subject to RTPCR tests."

Kidwai hospital alone is said to have conducted 24 lakh tests and billed Rs 146 crore. "I was panicked hearing this...officials told me this was mentioned by Cunha in the report... It means they have tested almost everyone in Bengaluru, this needs to be inquired," he said.

Last month, Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said the commission had recommended prosecution of the then Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and former minister B Sriramulu.

Asked whether there are names other than Yediyurappa and Sriramulu in the report, Shivakumarm said, "I don't want to disclose any names...officials will look into it, not us."

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