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In brief
Foreign languagecourses
»Bangalore Universityhas invited applications
from eligible candidates foradmissions to variouscourses in Certificate / Dipl-oma / Higher Diploma / Ad-vance Diploma in foreignlanguages like French, Ger-man, Spanish, Italian, Por-tuguese, Japanese, Chinese,Korean, Finnish, Russianand Arabic. The candidateswho have completed theirpre-university course canapply. The applicationforms will be issued at theCentre for Global Langua-ges (application fee is Rs300). Interested candidatesmay contact the coordinator,Centre for Global Langua-ges, Bangalore University,P K Block, Palace Road. Fordetails, contact: 2296 1280.
Healthcareinitiative
»The Apollo Hospitalshad organised medical
camps in the City on Thurs-day, which covered peoplefrom Weavers Colony, Ban-nerghatta Road, Jayanagarand Shankar Mutt Park.
As many as 9,000 doc-tors from Apollo Hospitalsacross the country recentlytook a pledge to makehealthcare affordable andaccessible to all, as part ofan initiative. Under the ini-tiative, at least four medicalcamps were organised inthe city for the first time.
At least 500 women whovisited these camps were of-fered free consultancy onhealth and pregnancy. TheApollo Hospitals will beconducting free medicalcamps across the city on 9thof every month to addressthe health issues.
Paediatricventilator donated
»A paediatric ventilatorwas donated to the
Kidwai Memorial Instituteof Oncology on Thursdayunder the Rotary Club ofBangalore Cantonment’s -“Project Hope.”
The contribution wasmade possible with supportreceived under the Corpo-rate Social Responsibility ofthe Cognizant Foundation,Syndicate Bank and withfunds and efforts made bythe Rotary Club members.The machine costing overRs 20 lakh was donated tothe paediatric wing of theKidwai Institute. Speakingon the occasion, PresidentD Ashok of the Rotary Can-tonment said that it gavehim immense pleasure torealise that a meaningfulcontribution was made to-wards paediatric health-care.
Date extended
»The Diploma CET con-ducted by the Karnata-
ka Examinations Authoritywill be held on July 3. Thelast date for applying hasbeen re-extended fromJune 8 to June 12 and thelast date for paying fees isJune 13.
Workshop
»Smart Cities IndiaFoundation will be or-
ganising a half-day work-shop on Smart Mobility forBengaluru on June 10 at 10am onwards. Arvind Jad-hav, Chief Secretary, Gov-ernment of Karnataka, andRamana Reddy, PrincipialSecretary, Transport de-partment, will participate.
2-day symposium
»The Data Centre andAnalytics Lab at the In-
dian Institute of Manage-ment - Bangalore will host atwo-day symposium onBusiness Analytics and In-telligence on June 11 and 12.
Yoga camp
»The Arogya MandiraTrust will organise a
free yoga camp from June13 to June 21 at No 148, 1st‘R’Block, Rajajinagar. Fordetails, call 98455 57078.
IFTAR: 6.45 PM (FRI)SEHRI: 4.29 AM (SAT)
GENERALPanchamukhi: Evam Indrajith, aplay remembering director, RakshithB M, K H Kalasoudha, Hanumanthna-gar, 5 pm.The Indian Institute of World Cul-ture: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan andInfosys Foundation - SugamaSangeeth, Wadia Hall, B P WadiaRoad, Basavanagudi, 6 pm.Sharadha Tutorial: Discourse ontranscendental meditation, 50, 4thCross, Malleswaram, 6 pm.Bangalore Lalitha Kala Parishat:Valedictory function of Dr H Narasi-mhaiah and Cultural Utsav, Dr H NKalakshethra, Jayanagar, 6.30 pm.
CULTURALKarnataka Chitrakala Parishat:Re-imagining Traditional Art, PrabhaMallesh, former Karnataka chiefminister S M Krishna to participate,Kumara Krupa Road, 5 pm.
In city today
Rainfall 5 mm
Humidity 87 pc
Sunrise 5.53 am
Sunset 6.45 pm
Moonrise 10.42 am
Moonset 11.25 pm(Relevant data recorded at 5.30 pm.
Source: IMD)
City weather
FORECAST: Generally cloudysky with one or two spells ofrain or thundershowers.TEMPERATURES
Maximum 30.4 C
Minimum 21.4 C
Bengaluru Lalithakala Parishat: DH Narasimaiah Memorial CulturalFestival, Bharatanatya, Dr H NKalakshethra, Jayanagar, 6.30 pm.Oxford University Press: Booklaunch, “Nature in the City, Bengalu-ru in the Past and Present,” GirishKarnad and Ramachandra Guha toparticipate, Alliance Francaise, PO108, Vasanth Nagar, 6 pm.Kappanna Angala: Nritya Bhanu –Bharatanatyam performance, 148/1,32, JP Nagar, 1st Phase, 6.30 pm.Nature Cure: Lecture on “Cure with-out Medicine,” K K Arcade, Chan-nasandra, Rajarajeshwari, 10.30 am.
RELIGIOUSVedanta Satsanga Kendra: Lectureon Bruhadaranyaka Upanishat,Vedanta Nilaya, Sakamma Gardens,Basavanagudi, 9 am.Paramartha Vichara Sangha Trust:Brahmastura Bhashyam, AdhyatmaMandira, V V Puram, 7.45 am.
BENGALURU: A govern-ment-appointed expertcommittee, which went on afield inspection of Varthurlake on Thursday, experi-enced during the four-hourvisit what local residentsface every day: contaminat-ed froth flying all aroundand into their faces.
The nine-member team hadsome unpleasant encounters.Itsurveyedtwowasteweirsandinlet points. It noticed con-struction debris dumped onone side of the lake and unseg-regated waste lying on the oth-er. Locals pointed to a portionof the lake that had been en-croached upon. The commit-tee instructed the Revenue De-partment to survey the areaand submit a report.
The visit is part of the gov-ernment’s efforts to revive Bel-landur and Varthur lakes, twoof the dirtiest waterbodies inBengaluru. Additional ChiefSecretary,UrbanDevelopmentDepartment, Mahendra Jain,is chairperson of the commit-tee. The committee had in-spected Bellandur lake on June2. The team was unable to sailinto Varthur lake in Armyboats, as it had done in Bellan-dur. Poor communication be-tween the Bangalore Develop-ment Authority (which iscustodian of the lake and or-ganised the field inspection)and the Army personnel led todropping of the plan.
The committee has so farmet twice and made two fieldvisits. Jain said there was an
immediate need to instal alarge sewage treatment plantat Bellandur lake and a smallerone at Varthur lake. “Our pri-ority is Bellandur lake as waterflows downstream from hereto Varthur,” he said.
On the request of locals, theteam also visited Ammanikerein Kundlahalli, where waste isbeing illegally dumped. Thecommitteefoundthataportionof the lake land was under liti-gation with the Bangalore Wa-ter Supply and SewerageBoard(BWSSB),whichneededto be examined.
Next course of actionThe committee will meet nexton June 16 and decide the nextcourseof actionon revivingthetwo lakes. It will submit the re-portsof its fieldvisits tothegov-ernment.
The Cabinet will have to ap-prove the recommendations.Jain said people and nonprofitscould send suggestions to theUrban Development Depart-ment by June 16.
T V Ramachandra, commit-tee member and professor atCentre for Ecological Sciences,IISc, said the committee dis-cussed accepting a proposal torevive the lakes. He said civicofficials had suggested divert-ing sewage downstream, but itwas inappropriate as thatwould contaminate waterdownstream to villagers andonward to Tamil Nadu. Theonly solution is to treat thesewage, he said.DH News Service
Bosky Khanna
BENGALURU: Starting June12, Bengalureans can visitmango orchards in Kolarand Chikkaballapur districtsfor eight Sundays and pluckthe fruits of their choice totake home. The trip will befree, so will be lunch. Theywill have to just pay for atleast six kilos of mango.
The Karnataka State Man-go Development and Market-ing Corporation Limited hasmodelled the initiative afterapple and cherry festivals inthe west. The trip will be re-stricted to Bengalureans thisyear. People in other parts ofKarnataka can look forwardto similar trips in the nextyear, the corporation’s chair-person, Kamalakshi Rajanna,told Deccan Herald.
“The first trip will be heldon June 12. Thereafter, allSundays, till the end of July,when the mango season ends,will have such trips.
Tourists will be taken toChikkaballapur and Kolar or-
chards of the farmers whohave 5-10 acres of land and areregistered with the APEDA(Agricultural and ProcessedFood Products Export Devel-opment Authority). Touristswill be given free pick-up anddrop facilities. Lunch made bylocals and farmers will beserved to them,”the chairper-son added. But only one per-son from a family can go onthe trip. Their family mem-bers can also visit the or-
Now,gopickyourownmangoes inorchards
All expenses-paid trip
Naveen Menezes
BENGALURU: Bringing fortha visible sign of progress onthe second phase of NammaMetro, the Bangalore MetroRail Corporation Limited(BMRCL) started erectingrebars on the eight-km-longstretch between MysuruRoad and Kengeri, the west-ern extension of Purple line.
This is part of the Phase-IIof Namma Metro project,whichwillspanover72.095km(13.79 km underground) and61 stations, of which 12 will beunderground.
Consisting of extensions offour existing lines and two newlines (Gottigere to Nagawaraand R V Road to Bommasan-dra), the BMRCL has estimat-edtospendRs26,405.14crore.
PradeepSinghKharola,BM-RCL Managing Director, toldDeccan Herald that the processof landacquisition,roadwiden-
ing and shifting of utilities wascomplete and the civil workhad already begun on Mysururoad to Kengeri stretch thatconnects Bangalore Universityand Kengeri satellite bus sta-tion among others.
The construction work hasbeen awarded to two contrac-tors on the Mysuru Road toKengeri stretch. IL&FS Engi-neering Construction Compa-nyLimitedisgoingtoconstruct3.94 km viaduct and four sta-
tions fromMysuru road stationto Pattanagere Station at a costof Rs 327 crore. Soma Enter-prise Limited would constructelevated structures (viaduct) of4.869 km from Pattanagerestation (excluding) to the be-ginning of Challaghatta depot.This will include two elevatedstations at Mailasandra andKengeri Station. The entirework will cost of Rs. 332 crore.
The preliminary works havebeen undertaken at the castingyard set up at Kanminike nearBidadi, the BMRCL reportstates. In all, the Mysuru Road
terminal-Kengeri Extension ofwestern line is expected to costRs 1,867.95 crore. Meanwhile,BMRCL has said that land ac-quisition, road widening andshifting of utilities from Nayan-dahalli station to Kengeri archbridge and Challaghatta depotis complete.
The BMRCL has also com-pleted issuing compensationpackages for properties, there-port stated. Moreover, the cor-porationhasalmostcompletedissuing compensation pack-ages for property owners be-tween the proposed Baiyap-panahalli to Whitefield Metrostation.
It has started the process ofacquiring land for the pro-posed lines between Nagasan-dra to Bangalore InternationalExhibitionCentre,PuttenahalliCross to Anjanapura Town-ship, R V Road to Bommasan-dra and Gottigere to Na-gawara.DH News Service
MetroPhase 2: Civilwork startsonMysuruRoad-Kengeri stretchCastingyardsetupatKanminikenearBidadi:BMRCL
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■ Nayandahalli■ Rajarajeshwari Nagar■ Bangalore University Cross■ Pattanagere■ Mailasandra■ Kengeri
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New stations
Work begins on Mysuru Road to extend Metro’s western linetill Kengeri. DH PHOTO
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■ First trip on July 12. Twobuses of 80 people each willleave Cubbon Park, Bal Bha-van gate.■ Registrations open on Fri-day and close at 3 pm, June11.■ People can register atwww.ksmdmcl.org, givingtheir full name and contactdetails.■ Identity proof must whileboarding the bus.■ Booking will be on firstcome first served basis.■ For subsequent trips, pri-ority for previous trip appli-cants.
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The details
CHOCK-O-BLOCK: The movement of vehicles was badly affected between Marathahalli and the Silk Board on the Outer RingRoad after a large tree fell (inset) near Iblur Junction on Sarjapur Road on Thursday. DH PHOTO
Tree fall near Iblur Jn causes massive traffic snarl
5% of industrial plots for women entrepreneurs
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah with participants at the international convention for womenentrepreneurs in the city on Thursday. DH PHOTO.
BENGALURU, DHNS: ChiefMinister Siddaramiah onThursday said Karnatakastands third in the country inthe number of women entre-preneurs.
Speaking at an internationalconvention for women entre-preneurs, “Forging Links”, or-ganised by National Small In-dustries Corporation inassociation with Emerge, hesaid there are at least 1.03 lakhwomen-runbusinessenterpris-es in the state. Quoting fromofficialstatistics, Siddaramaiahsaid Karnataka, Kerala, TamilNadu and West Bengal togeth-er contribute 51.9% of thecountry’s women-owned busi-ness establishments.
The chief minister said Kar-nataka’s new industrial policylists a number of polices to sup-port women entrepreneurs.“In future, five per cent of theplots developed either by theKarnatakaIndustrialAreasDe-velopment Board or the Kar-nataka Small Scale Industries
Development Corporationwould be reserved for women,”he said.
The state government hadearlier announced setting upof a dedicated industrial parkfor women. “There are two in-dustrial parks that will soon bedeveloped. OneinHarohallioffKanakapuraRoad andanother
at Hubballi-Dharwad. We haveidentified 100 acres of land inHarohalli,” he added. Anotherpark is in the pipeline in Shiva-mogga district.
The chief minister said in to-day’s competitive world, it isimportant to give equal oppor-tunities for women. He said agirl faces challenges right from
birth and it is the duty of thegovernment to ensure that sev-eralopportunities areprovidedtothem.Theeventsawthepar-ticipation of many women en-trepreneurs from various pro-fessions. Awards were given tomany women who made markas entrepreneurs and profes-sionals.
A nine-member expert committee inspects Varthur lake onThursday, as part of the government’s efforts to revive twoof the dirties waterbodies in Bengaluru. Mahendra Jain,Additional Chief Secretary, Urban Development Department,heads the committee. DH PHOTO
Dirty froth greetsgovt panel atVarthur lake
Policemenstruggle toclearbranches,BBMPteamarrives late
4menrobpharmastafferof Rs9LcashBENGALURU: Four unidenti-fied persons assaulted an em-ployee of a pharma companyand made away with the cashof Rs 9 lakh near CemeteryRoad in Shanthi Nagar onWednesday noon.
According to the police,Karthik, an employee of a pri-vate pharmaceutical compa-ny, was going to a bank inShanthi Nagar to deposit Rs 9lakh cash in his bike. Four per-sons in two bikes waylaidKarthik and picked up an ar-gument with him for riding ina rash and negligent manner.
The gang of four thrashedKarthik and made away withRs 9 lakh cash kept in the utili-ty box of his bike. Karthik haslodged a complaint in AshokNagar police station.DH News Service
BENGALURU: Vehicularmovement betweenMarathahalli and Agaracame to a grinding halt for afew hours on Thursday as ahuge tree came crashingdown near Iblur Junction.
The BBMP’s apathy in rush-ing a team to clear the tree only
worsened the situation as ve-hicles piled up in a long queue.A team of only four policemenof HSR Layout Traffic policestation made their best effortsto clear the tree, but in vain,said the police.
Vehicles lined up in a longqueue of about six kilometresbetween Marathahalli andAgara,generatingcascadingef-fect at Devarabisanahalli andBellandur, added the police.
Arrives late“The police received the newsof a tree fall opposite a militarycamp between Iblur Junctionand Agara Junction around 11
am and a team was rushedthere. “The police immediatelycalled up the BBMP controlroom and informed themaround 11 am, but the BBMPteam reached the spot onlyaround 3.30 pm,”said a police-man.
Collected machete“We collected an old machetefrom the police station, collect-ed another machete from mil-itarycampandstartedclearingthe tree which had blockedmost of the main road and theservice road. Every branch ofthe tree had fire ants which at-tackedthepolicemenoncethey
started to clear the branches,”he told Deccan Herald. The po-licemen had to rest every 30minutes due to the fire ants’at-tack.
They could clear only a fewbranches and facilitated theway for movement of two-wheelers. The BBMP teamreached the spot around 3.30pm and the tree was cleared by4 pm, said the police.
Despite repeated calls fromthe traffic police about therushing the team, the BBMPcontrol room staff kept reply-ing that the team had alreadybeen sent to the spot.DH News Service
chards, but they should beartheir travel and food expenses.“This is not a family trip,”Ka-malakshi said. A kilogram ofAlphonso mangoes will besold at Rs 40. Other varietieswill cost less.DH News Service
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