ARTO, RTO offices in Karnataka to go paperless, DL, LL services will be offered online: Sriramulu
Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister of Transportation Department and Tribal Welfare of Karnataka on Wednesday said his ministry will soon introduce online services for Driving License (DL) and Learning License (LL) in a bid to make offices of Assistant Regional Transport Officer (ARTO) and Regional Transport Officer (RTO) paperless.
Replying to a query posed by Congress leader DS Holegeri, at the Karnataka Assembly in the ongoing session, the Minister said all the services of ARTO and RTO offices will be made available online aiming to go paperless and to reduce the need of people having to visit these offices.
He also added that proposals have been made for establishing new ART/RTO offices in Muddebihal, Sindagi or Indi region in Vijaypura district, Hinnali, Chennagiri in Davangere district, Sedam in Kalaburagi, Sindanur/Lingasur in Raichur district and in Kundapur Taluk of Udupi district.
“There are demands of opening ARTO, RTO offices at various places across the state. We will do it step by step while also considering the availability of the funds with the ministry.” He said.
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Hampi temple bans bananas to prevent overfeeding of elephant
Hampi: A 7th-century shrine of Lord Shiva in Hampi has banned bananas in its premises, stating that devotees tend to overfeed the temple elephant as well as litter the place of worship with banana peels.
The management of Virupaksha temple said on Thursday that they decided on the ban for the good of the temple, the elephant as well as the devotees.
"We saw that the devotees get overzealous in their attempts to feed the elephant, which is not only harmful to the elephant concerned, but it also makes the place very dirty. The devotees leave behind banana peels and even the plastic bags that they bring the bananas in," said Hanaumantappa, temple endowment officer, to PTI.
The temple authorities also said ever since the reports of the ban came out, they have been getting a lot of calls asking about the ban.
Hanaumantappa appealed to people not to take the banana ban out of context and make it into a controversy.
"This is a local matter. We made the decision based purely on what was happening inside our temple premises," added Hanaumantappa.
Virupaksha temple is often referred to as 'Dakshin Kashi' and it sees at least 5,000 devotees every day. On special days and weekends, the crowd surges further, reaching even 50,000 a day, said sources from the temple.
