CM Siddaramaiah urges people to use green crackers to check pollution, avoid fire accidents
Bengaluru, Nov 12: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday appealed to people of the state to use only green crackers to avoid fire accidents, and check pollution that can complicate the health of patients with respiratory and cardio-related ailments.
Greeting people on the occasion of Deepavali, he said the festival symoblises the journey from darkness of ignorance to the light of knowledge.
The CM, however, advised people to be cautious while handling crackers in order to avoid any untoward incident due to carelessness.
Siddaramaiah reminded people to use only green crackers.
"The state government has given permission to use green crackers to check air and sound pollution, and fire accidents. Various chemicals used in the crackers lead to many health complications," Siddaramaiah said in a video message.
"The air and sound pollution cause severe health hazard to those suffering from asthma, lung and heart diseases. Birds and animals undergo silent pain. Hence, I appeal to the citizens that they must use only green crackers," he added.
Siddaramaiah's message on crackers came against the backdrop of a major fire in a cracker godown-cum-shop at Attibele, the border town of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on the outskirts of Bengaluru on October 8, which killed 14 people.
Every year, many people, especially children get eye injuries while bursting crackers.
ಬೆಳಕಿನ ಹಬ್ಬ ದೀಪಾವಳಿ ಅಜ್ಞಾನದ ಅಂಧಕಾರ ತೊಡೆದು ಸುಜ್ಞಾನದ ಬೆಳಕು ಹರಿಸಲಿ ಎಂದು ಹಾರೈಸುತ್ತೇನೆ.
— CM of Karnataka (@CMofKarnataka) November 12, 2023
ಹಣತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಬೆಳಗಿ, ಹಸಿರು ಪಟಾಕಿಗಳನ್ನು ಮಾತ್ರವೇ ಸಿಡಿಸಿ ಸುರಕ್ಷಿತವಾಗಿ ದೀಪಾವಳಿಯನ್ನು ಆಚರಿಸಿ.
ನಾಡಿನ ಸಮಸ್ತ ಜನತೆಗೆ ದೀಪಾವಳಿಯ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು.
- ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿ @siddaramaiah#ದೀಪಾವಳಿ #Deepavali pic.twitter.com/ZaeN6JmW9s
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Doctors, professors barred from private practice during work hours: Min Sharan Prakash Patil
Bengaluru: Karnataka Medical Education Minister Dr. Sharan Prakash Patil on Monday has warned that the government will take strict legal action on doctors or professors of teaching hospitals who were found carrying out private practice during their working hours.
Dr. Patil, in response to a question by Congress member Balkis Banu, said that the government had implemented a salary system based on biometric attendance, as it had received complaints of teaching hospital doctors and professors carrying out their private practice skipping work at the hospitals. The doctors and professors are required to attend to their duties at the hospital between 9 am and 4 pm, and have to mark their attendance through the biometric system four times a day, at 9 am, 2 pm, 3 pm and 4 pm, the minister has clarified before the House.
The minister said that the state government would soon start Bone Marrow Aspirate and Trephine Biopsy (BMAT) institutes at Mysuru and Hubballi to examine cancer cases in children. He added that officers Indira Gandhi Children Hospitals have been directed to establish BMAT.
The data presented before the House stated that over 1,500 children below 14 years are diagnosed with cancer.
