Rs 30-cr project to improve roads in twin cities
Newindpress.com
DHARWAD: S R Morey, District and Municipal Administration Minister has said that a project of Rs 30 crore for the improvement of roads in Hubli-Dharwad will be taken up after rainy season.
He was speaking after inaugurating 59th Independence Day celebrations organised by District Administration at R N Shetty stadium, here on Monday.
He said everyone should involve actively and participate in the process of building of the strong nation. People should follow the ideologies of freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives for the sake of country.
Listing out the developmental works being taken up in the district, the Minister said toilet facility was provided to about 217 primary schools in district under ‘Sarva Shikshan Abhiyan’ programme and steps were taken to construct around 78 schoolrooms.
By extending the midday meal facility upto seventh standard from 5th, midday meal facility was being provided to 1.70 lakh children in the district, he added.
Water projects at a cost of Rs 3.11 crore were being taken up to improve the drinking water supply in the district and about 186 bore wells had been drilled in rural areas to augment the drinking water supply in rural areas, he said.
He said Rs 50 lakh had already been released for the construction of pavements in Hubli-Dharawd and steps were being taken to rehabilitate the people who were displaced during the anti-encroachment drive.
He said steps were being taken to provide information to the common man about the property of people, birth and death and local organisations which come under the 57 town municipal and town panchyats’ jurisdiction in state through website.
The Minister who received the guard of honour also inspected the parade of Home Guards, the police, NCC, Scouts and Guides and various schools and colleges.
MLC Veeranna Mattikatti, MLA Vinaya Kulkarni, Deputy Commissioner Gaurav Gupta, Police Commissioner Narayan Nadamani, Zilla Panchayat CEO K S Umapathi, HQA S B Bommannalli and others were present.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Over 1,500 tricolours sold before and during Independence Day
Over 1,500 tricolours sold before and during Independence Day
New Kerala.com
New Delhi: Over 1,500 Indian flags were sold to mark the country’s 59th Independence Day.
According to sources at the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), the sole official agency authorised to make and sell the national flag, there was a 24 percent jump in sales from the flags sold to citizens still retaining the patriotic spirit.
Compared to the 1,184 flags sold last year, this year 1,517 flags were sold. Whereas the KVIC earned Rs. 3.12 lakh last year, this year, its earnings from the flags was Rs. 3.90 lakh.
According to one source, the sale of flags usually peak a week before Republic Day or Independence Day, but this year, orders were received a fortnight in advance.
After India became a republic in 1950, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) brought out the specifications for the flag for the first time in 1951. These were revised in 1964 to conform to the metric system which was adopted in India. The specifications were further amended on 1968-08-17. The specifications cover all the essential requirements of the manufacture of the Indian flag including sizes, dye colour, chromatic values, brightness, thread count and hemp cordage. These guidelines are extremely stringent and any defect in the manufacture of flags is considered to be a serious offence liable to a fine or a jail term or both.
Khadi or hand-spun cloth is the only material allowed to be used for the flag. Raw materials for khadi are restricted to cotton, silk and wool. There are two kinds of khadi used, the first is the khadi-bunting which makes up the body of the flag and the second is the khadi-duck, which is a beige-coloured cloth that holds the flag to the pole. The khadi-duck is an unconventional type of weave that meshes three threads into a weave as compared to two weaves used in conventional weaving. This type of weaving is extremely rare, and there are less than a dozen weavers in India professing this skill. The guidelines also state that there should be exactly 150 threads per square centimetre, four threads per stitch, and one square foot should weigh exactly 205 grams.
The woven khadi is obtained from two handloom units in Dharwad and Bagalkot districts of northern Karnataka. Currently there is only one licensed flag production unit in India which is based in Hubli. Permission for setting up flag manufacturing units in India is allotted by the Khadi Development and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), though the BIS has the power to cancel the licences of units that flout guidelines.
Once woven, the material is sent to the BIS laboratories for testing. After stringent quality testing; the flag if approved, is returned to the factory. It is then bleached and dyed into the respective colours. In the centre the Ashoka Chakra is screen printed, stencilled or suitably embroidered. Care also has to be taken that the chakra is matched and completely visible on both sides. The BIS then checks for the colours and only then can the flag be sold.
Each year around 40 million flags are sold in India. The largest flag in India (14 C 21 ft) is flown by the Government of Maharashtra atop the Mantralaya building, the state administrative headquarters.
New Kerala.com
New Delhi: Over 1,500 Indian flags were sold to mark the country’s 59th Independence Day.
According to sources at the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), the sole official agency authorised to make and sell the national flag, there was a 24 percent jump in sales from the flags sold to citizens still retaining the patriotic spirit.
Compared to the 1,184 flags sold last year, this year 1,517 flags were sold. Whereas the KVIC earned Rs. 3.12 lakh last year, this year, its earnings from the flags was Rs. 3.90 lakh.
According to one source, the sale of flags usually peak a week before Republic Day or Independence Day, but this year, orders were received a fortnight in advance.
After India became a republic in 1950, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) brought out the specifications for the flag for the first time in 1951. These were revised in 1964 to conform to the metric system which was adopted in India. The specifications were further amended on 1968-08-17. The specifications cover all the essential requirements of the manufacture of the Indian flag including sizes, dye colour, chromatic values, brightness, thread count and hemp cordage. These guidelines are extremely stringent and any defect in the manufacture of flags is considered to be a serious offence liable to a fine or a jail term or both.
Khadi or hand-spun cloth is the only material allowed to be used for the flag. Raw materials for khadi are restricted to cotton, silk and wool. There are two kinds of khadi used, the first is the khadi-bunting which makes up the body of the flag and the second is the khadi-duck, which is a beige-coloured cloth that holds the flag to the pole. The khadi-duck is an unconventional type of weave that meshes three threads into a weave as compared to two weaves used in conventional weaving. This type of weaving is extremely rare, and there are less than a dozen weavers in India professing this skill. The guidelines also state that there should be exactly 150 threads per square centimetre, four threads per stitch, and one square foot should weigh exactly 205 grams.
The woven khadi is obtained from two handloom units in Dharwad and Bagalkot districts of northern Karnataka. Currently there is only one licensed flag production unit in India which is based in Hubli. Permission for setting up flag manufacturing units in India is allotted by the Khadi Development and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), though the BIS has the power to cancel the licences of units that flout guidelines.
Once woven, the material is sent to the BIS laboratories for testing. After stringent quality testing; the flag if approved, is returned to the factory. It is then bleached and dyed into the respective colours. In the centre the Ashoka Chakra is screen printed, stencilled or suitably embroidered. Care also has to be taken that the chakra is matched and completely visible on both sides. The BIS then checks for the colours and only then can the flag be sold.
Each year around 40 million flags are sold in India. The largest flag in India (14 C 21 ft) is flown by the Government of Maharashtra atop the Mantralaya building, the state administrative headquarters.
Expectations soar on the eve of Manmohan Singh's visit to State
Expectations soar on the eve of Manmohan Singh's visit to State
The Hindu
HUBLI: Apart from the endorsement of the promise of more aid made by Congress President Sonia Gandhi in the wake of the flood havoc in Karnataka, Tuesday's visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has raised a lot of expectations about the long pending problems of Karnataka in general and that of north Karnataka in particular getting sorted out.
Going by the observations made by Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh here on Sunday, Karnataka is expected to broach the issue of early clearance to take up projects for diversion of waters from Kalasa Banduri nala to the Malaprabha.
Project plan
Karnataka's plan had got stuck in view of the Centre keeping in abeyance the "in principle" clearance given by the Union Ministry of Water Resources for execution of the twin projects designed to divert the waters from Kalasa and Banduri nala, tributaries of the west-flowing Mahadayi river, three years ago.
The diversion had been proposed by Karnataka to meet the drinking water requirements, essentially of the farmers on the riverbank and also people in Hubli-Dharwad.
The Centre's action followed the objection raised by Goa, the other riparian State of the Mahadayi basin.
In view of the agitation by the farmers, which had been launched in the command areas of the Malaprabha for the execution of the projects, the Chief Minister had promised to lead an all-party delegation to the Prime Minister last week, which however got postponed.
Mr. Dharam Singh told a meeting in Dharwad on Sunday that the issue could be taken up with the Prime Minister on Tuesday when the latter would be in Belgaum for an aerial survey of the flood havoc caused by the Krishna.
Permission
Karnataka is expected to prevail upon the Prime Minister to rescind the order keeping in abeyance the clearance given and permit it to execute the projects.
Karnataka's case has been that the opportunity of tapping the potential of Mahadayi river, which just flows into the Arabian Sea, should not be lost sight of. Karnataka's case is that going by the geographical distribution of the catchment area, it is entitled to get around 40 tmcft of the total potential of the river estimated at 200 tmcft and what was it seeking to divert was only 7.54 tmcft, which could be adjusted against the share of the State, as and when it is determined.
Karnataka has also pressed for constituting the inter-State water disputes tribunal to adjudicate on the share of the two riparian States, Karnataka and Goa.
The Centre has been dragging its feet on granting the request despite Goa also endorsing the plea for constituting such a tribunal.
A delegation of BJP MPs from Karnataka had only recently met Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi, Union Minister for Water Resources, who had promised to find a "positive" solution to the issue raised by talking it over to the Goa Government and coming out with the news by the end of the month.
Karnataka is also expected to take up with the Prime Minister a flood related issue over the discharge from Maharashtra into the Krishna and Bhima and the pressure being exerted on Karnataka to discharge more water from its dams. Karnataka is concerned over the bogie being raised by Maharashtra that the slow discharge of water from Alamatti and Narayanpur reservoirs, had been responsible for the backwater effect in the upstream areas in that State.
Karnataka's move in discharging the water even without the dam in Alamatti being able to impound its full quota of water up to the height of 519 meters has come for criticism in the State itself.
Besides, the other issues of economic importance to the north Karnataka region, which are likely to figure in the talks between the Chief Minister and the Prime Minister, are the impasse over the environmental clearance for the Rs. 1,000 crore Hubli-Ankola new line project and the slowing down of the broad gauge work between Bijapur and Gadag.
The Hindu
HUBLI: Apart from the endorsement of the promise of more aid made by Congress President Sonia Gandhi in the wake of the flood havoc in Karnataka, Tuesday's visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has raised a lot of expectations about the long pending problems of Karnataka in general and that of north Karnataka in particular getting sorted out.
Going by the observations made by Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh here on Sunday, Karnataka is expected to broach the issue of early clearance to take up projects for diversion of waters from Kalasa Banduri nala to the Malaprabha.
Project plan
Karnataka's plan had got stuck in view of the Centre keeping in abeyance the "in principle" clearance given by the Union Ministry of Water Resources for execution of the twin projects designed to divert the waters from Kalasa and Banduri nala, tributaries of the west-flowing Mahadayi river, three years ago.
The diversion had been proposed by Karnataka to meet the drinking water requirements, essentially of the farmers on the riverbank and also people in Hubli-Dharwad.
The Centre's action followed the objection raised by Goa, the other riparian State of the Mahadayi basin.
In view of the agitation by the farmers, which had been launched in the command areas of the Malaprabha for the execution of the projects, the Chief Minister had promised to lead an all-party delegation to the Prime Minister last week, which however got postponed.
Mr. Dharam Singh told a meeting in Dharwad on Sunday that the issue could be taken up with the Prime Minister on Tuesday when the latter would be in Belgaum for an aerial survey of the flood havoc caused by the Krishna.
Permission
Karnataka is expected to prevail upon the Prime Minister to rescind the order keeping in abeyance the clearance given and permit it to execute the projects.
Karnataka's case has been that the opportunity of tapping the potential of Mahadayi river, which just flows into the Arabian Sea, should not be lost sight of. Karnataka's case is that going by the geographical distribution of the catchment area, it is entitled to get around 40 tmcft of the total potential of the river estimated at 200 tmcft and what was it seeking to divert was only 7.54 tmcft, which could be adjusted against the share of the State, as and when it is determined.
Karnataka has also pressed for constituting the inter-State water disputes tribunal to adjudicate on the share of the two riparian States, Karnataka and Goa.
The Centre has been dragging its feet on granting the request despite Goa also endorsing the plea for constituting such a tribunal.
A delegation of BJP MPs from Karnataka had only recently met Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi, Union Minister for Water Resources, who had promised to find a "positive" solution to the issue raised by talking it over to the Goa Government and coming out with the news by the end of the month.
Karnataka is also expected to take up with the Prime Minister a flood related issue over the discharge from Maharashtra into the Krishna and Bhima and the pressure being exerted on Karnataka to discharge more water from its dams. Karnataka is concerned over the bogie being raised by Maharashtra that the slow discharge of water from Alamatti and Narayanpur reservoirs, had been responsible for the backwater effect in the upstream areas in that State.
Karnataka's move in discharging the water even without the dam in Alamatti being able to impound its full quota of water up to the height of 519 meters has come for criticism in the State itself.
Besides, the other issues of economic importance to the north Karnataka region, which are likely to figure in the talks between the Chief Minister and the Prime Minister, are the impasse over the environmental clearance for the Rs. 1,000 crore Hubli-Ankola new line project and the slowing down of the broad gauge work between Bijapur and Gadag.
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