Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa
MYSURU: In his 8th budget presented on Monday, Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa announced a bonanza for his home district Shivamogga.
Two major infrastructure projects of the region i.e. Shivamogga and Hassan airports, got a budget boost. In his budget speech, CM announced Rs.384 crore for Shivamogga airport project and Rs 175 crore for Hassan airport project, which is pending for more than ten years. These two projects are expected to give a fillip to the tourism and economic activities in the region. However, there is no word about the expansion of the Mysuru airport.
While the government has set an ambitious target, technical issues continue to dog phase 2 of the vaccination drive in the Mysuru region.
BENGALURU/MYSURU: From Monday, 3,000 vaccination centres will be operational in the state, said health minister K Sudhakar. These include primary health centres and taluk and district hospitals.
Karnataka, he added, plans to vaccinate 1.5 lakh people every day.
While the government has set an ambitious target, technical issues continue to dog phase 2 of the vaccination drive in the Mysuru region. According to several people, no slots for vaccination are available in Mysuru, Hassan, Shivamogga, Chamarajanagar, Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru and Mandya till April 2 on the self-registration portal (cowin.gov.in).
Hale and hearty
MYSURU: When two-day-old sloth bear cubs were abandoned by their mother in the thick forests of Nagarahole Tiger Reserve in mid-January, forest officials did not think that they could survive.
The cubs were just born, and their eyes were yet to open. With no other option, the cubs were shifted to Mysuru Zoo. Today, the cubs are hale and hearty, and crawling about with their eyes wide open, all thanks to the Mysuru Zoo authorities, who took care of the little ones and saved them. The cubs are more than a month old now.
BP Ravi, a senior IFS officer, and member-secretary of the Zoo Authority of Karnataka, said that when the cubs were brought to Mysuru Zoo, they were just two-three days old. They weighed approximately 1.1kg. They were handed over to Mysuru Zoo by the Nagarahole Tiger Reserve director, after their efforts to reunite the cubs with their mother went in vain. Zoo staff took great care of the cubs, and helped them survive by hand-rearing them. Usually, s
MYSURU: One of the challenges faced by the forest department in the forest buffer zones and villages located inside the forests is to provide sustainable livelihood to the locals, especially the tribal communities. In the remote Ponachchi and surrounding villages near famous MM Hills temple, the forest department has now started training for over 100 women under the Bamboo Mission.
Master trainer from the Tripura are training these women in various bamboo products. The idea is helping the women to find job and livelihood locally without migrating to any places. The department is also now popularising the bamboo cultivation among the local farmers which can fetch Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh per acre income annually per acre of land.