Much ado about nothing? No garbage cess proposal
Much ado about nothing? No garbage cess proposal
ByY Maheswara ReddyY Maheswara Reddy / Updated: Dec 18, 2020, 06:00 IST
Palike chief says there was never a plan to take a Rs 200-user fee for door-to-door
garbage collection
In November D Randeep,
BBMP Special Commissioner, SWM, made a startling declaration. He said, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is all set to collect Rs 200 as user fee from households for door-to-door collection of garbage in the city. Now, coming at a time when people were facing financial crises and were in trouble due the pandemic and its aftermath, this was received with a huge furore.
Amendment to Karnataka Land Reforms Act: what govt, opposition say
The amendments allow non-agriculturists to buy agricultural land in the state. Successive governments have in recent years gradually diluted land ownership norms under the Land Reforms Act to facilitate industrial growth and agricultural land ownership by non-farmers. Updated: December 19, 2020 9:16:18 am
In the Karnataka House.
The opposition Congress has called amendments to the Karnataka Land Reforms Act 1961 which were passed in the state legislature last week by the BJP government with the support of the opposition Janata Dal (Secular) a “death warrant” for farmers.
The amendments allow non-agriculturists to buy agricultural land in the state. Successive governments have in recent years gradually diluted land ownership norms under the Land Reforms Act to facilitate industrial growth and agricultural land ownership by non-farmers.
RN Shetty was 92 and is survived by his wife and three sons.
BENGALURU: Eminent businessman and philanthropist RN Shetty died at his residence here due to a cardiac arrest in the early hours of Thursday, family members said.
He was 92 and is survived by his wife and three sons.
Born on August 15, 1928 at Murudeshwar in the coastal district of Uttara Kannada, Rama Nagappa Shetty founded the RN Shetty and Company in 1961 and ventured into the construction industry with focus on infrastructure building.
He built tunnels for the railways, dams, canals, bridges, and buildings in various parts of Karnataka and neighbouring states.
Eminent businessman and philanthropist RN Shetty dies of cardiac arrest
Bhatkal: December 17, 2020 (Bhatkallys News Bureau) RN Shetty, a well-known personality of Murudeshwar taluka and chairman of RNS group, passed away in the early hours of December 17. He was about 92 years old.
RN Shetty is survived by his wife and three sons. Born on August 15, 1928 at Murudeshwar in the coastal district of Uttara Kannada, Rama Nagappa Shetty founded the RN Shetty and Company in 1961 and ventured into the construction industry with focus on infrastructure building.
RN Shetty built tunnels for the railways, dams, canals, bridges, and buildings in various parts of Karnataka and neighbouring states. Later, he entered the hospitality and education sector and left a mark there as well. The Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industries had bestowed on him the Visvesvaraya Memorial Award in 2004 and the Bengaluru University conferred an honorary doctorate in 2009.
Unrelenting COVID contagion, spiralling raw material prices, back-to-back strikes main factors
Mysore/Mysuru: Over 30 percent of
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), which are reeling under the impact of economic slowdown and COVID-19, are on the verge of closure by the end of this year, claim industry bodies at a meeting of industries associations of Mysuru including Mysore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), Hebbal Industrial Estate Manufacturers Association (HIEMA), Mysore District Small Scale Industries Association (MDSSIA). The meeting was held at HIEMA office in Hebbal last evening.
Spiralling raw material cost
HIEMA Honorary Secretary C.M. Subramanian told Star of Mysore that since the last two to three weeks, there has been 35 to 50 percent increase in input and raw material costs.