Archives for May 2022

Parmesh S Jain

DPR submitted for new NIMHANS PG institute and poly trauma centre at a cost of 489 Cr

New 538 bed NIMHANS poly trauma centre and PG institute proposed in Bengaluru North

In a move that will greatly boost Karnataka’s Health and Medical Education sector,Union Health Minister Dr.Mansukh Mandaviya gave a green signal for establishing an All India Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS) in Karnataka .

The assurance was given during a meeting between Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar and Union Health Dr Mansukh Mandaviya in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Minister Sudhakar had earlier submitted a request to Union government to start an AIIMS in Karnataka to enhance public healthcare and medical education infrastructure in Karnataka.

“I thank our beloved Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji and Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya ji for assuring an AIIMS for Karnataka. This will greatly benefit the state and further enhance state’s health and medical education,” said Minister Sudhakar.

*New NIMHANS poly trauma centre and PG institute;

Dr K Sudhakar also announced that the DPR for a new National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS) poly trauma centre and PG institute has been submitted to the Standing Finance Committee (SFC).

Once approved, the new institute will come up at Kyalasanahalli near Hennur Main road in Bengaluru.

Initially,the Karnataka government had submitted a proposal to the SFC for the construction of a medical college in 2021.

However the SFC had asked the government to focus on NIMHANS expertise in PG training.The new 538 bed institute is set to come up in three years at a cost of 489 crores.

Additionally,Minister Sudhakar in a letter to Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya made the following suggestions to improve healthcare in the state.

Opening a separate state level university for nursing and allied health sciences to ensure quality and professionalism.

*PPP model for administration of hospitals.

*Special curriculum and training of in-service doctors in hospital management

*Priority for domicile students in deemed universities

*Extending GoI’s assistance to establish medical colleges in all districts irrespective of whether it has a private medical college or not.

*Stringent norms to ensure world class food safety and standards.

*Flexibility in leveraging National Health Mission to address state specific and region specific health challenges.

Parmesh S Jain

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has announced Rs.25,000 compensation for houses which were flooded due to heavy rains in Bengaluru.

Arrangements have been made to serve food for the flood affected people,Chief Minister, Basavaraj Bommai said.

The Chief Minister was interacting with media persons after visiting the rain affected areas with other Ministers as,R Ashoka,and officers as,BBMP Commissioner,Tushar Girinath and other officials visited Hosakerehalli and Rajarajeshwari Nagar area and inspected the low lying areas.

Low lying areas are flooded in Bengaluru during heavy rains as the water flows from high areas to low lying areas due to the topography of the city.

In many places houses have been built along the Rajakaluves(major storm water drains.As a result water cannot flow smoothly.

Action has been taken to drain out water from houses which have been flooded.The clogged Rajakaluves and waterlogging areas have been identified.

Orders have been issued to take all possible measures to remove all bottlenecks for smooth flow of water in Rajakaluves and low lying areas, Bommai said.

Construction of secondary and tertiary drains

In many places rain water is gushing into the homes due to encroachments and construction of houses on lake beds.

BBMP would build secondary and tertiary drains in such areas.These works would be completed within an year, Bommai said.

Rajakaluve works

Replying to a question on flooding in areas where Rajakaluve works have not been completed, Bommai said,the city has about 800km long Rajakaluves.

Last year work on about 400km of Rajakaluves was completed,work on the remaining length of Rajakaluves would be completed this year to enable smooth flow of water,Bommai said.

Rs.5 lakh solatium for families of the dead

Expressing his grief at the death of two persons who lost their lives at Ullal where BWSSB works are in progress,Bommai said Rs.5 lakh solatium would be paid to their families.

Encroachments on Rajakaluves have been identified and action is being taken to clear them.

Most of the inconvenience is being caused due to simultaneous works of underground drains, gas pipelines, telecom cables,water supply going on in the city.

Roads have been dug up for these works. Therefore a Task Force is being constituted. Road works would be taken up after completion of these ongoing works,Bommai said.

Parmesh S Jain

According to Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) officials,Bengaluru witnessed more than 114 mm rainfall in less than 12 hours resulting in overflowing of almost all storm water drains (SWD) in all zones of the city.

While water came up to 4 ft.on Mourya Road,it was almost 3 ft. in Chickpet, Sultanpet and Nagarthpet.Even the Sirsi Circle flyover was waterlogged by 10 p.m.

Waterlogging was reported from Majestic, Corporation, Nagarthpet, Shantinagar, Kodigehalli, Jalahalli, Peenya, Goraguntepalya, Thyagarajnagar, Guttahalli, Richmond Town, Okalipuram, and around the CBD.

As water began entering houses, BBMP control room received complaints from Hosakerehalli, Jayanagara, Shivajinagar, Mahalakshmipuram, Basaweshwarnagar, J.C. Nagar, JJR Nagar, HSR Layout, Koramangala, SVR Layout, Bommanahalli, Hulimavu, BC Palya, Malleshwaram and other lowlying areas.

On Tuesday night, Horamavu registered the highest rainfall of 155 mm,followed by Yelahanka (129 mm) and Vidyapeetha (127 mm).

Rajmahal (122 mm), Nagapura (120 mm), Sampanginagar (119 mm), Dasarahalli (110 mm), Vidyaranyapura (109 mm), Doddanekkundi (108 mm), Banaswadi (106 mm) and Jakkur (102 mm) also registered rainfall above 100 mm.

IMD considers rainfall between 64.5 mm and 115.5 mm as heavy and between 115.6 and 204.4 as very heavy. Many other parts of the city also witnessed rainfall above 50 mm.

As many as six people three in Bengaluru lost their lives in separate incidents across the State during the heavy rains on tuesday that wreaked havoc across many parts of Karnataka.

Two contract labourers died met a watery grave while laying water pipes for a residential layout in Ullal lake in Jnanabharathi.

While another labourer slipped from a 40 -ft high rooftop of an industry in Sompura industrial layout in Dabaspet Badabpet during the heavy rains that lashed Bengaluru on Tuesday.

Two contract labourers died met a watery grave while laying water pipes for a residential layout in Ullal lake in Jananbharathi,while another labourer slipped from a 40 -ft high rooftop of an industry in Sompura industrial layout in Dabaspet Badabpet during the heavy rains that lashed Bengaluru on Tuesday.

The two labourers,identified as Ankit Kumar Sahani,23 from Bihar and Dev Bharath Kushwaha, 37 from UP, were forced to work overtime while it was raining and drowned in the pipe even as their colleague Triloki made futile attempts to pull them out of the narrow pipes around 7.30 pm.

Triloki,the complainant,also alleged that despite informing the project manager,site engineer and the labour contractor,they came to the site the next day to pump out water and pull out the bodies .

Senior officer told reporters,Based on the complaint by Triloki,the police arrested,Shiva Kumar,project manager,Harish Reddy,site engineer,Manoj Yadav,labour contractor,and Narasimharaju, HR Manager of Mega Engineering and Infrastructure Estate (MEIL),charging them under death due to negligence .

Triloki told the police that he,along with eight others,were working to lay pipes near Ullal Lake for the Cauvery fifth stage works by MEIL.

The workers wound up work by 4 pm on Tuesday when it was started raining.

The accused Shivakumar,Harish Reddy and Manoj Yadav arrived at the spot and asked Triloki,Ankit and Dev Bharath to stay back to finish wielding work till 9 pm,and asked the others to go home.

The labourers are from UP and Bihar came to the city in search of work four months ago and joined the company as contract labourers .

Their request to finish the pending work the next day citing bad weather went in vain as the accused insisted that they have to finish the work by 9 pm and report to them,Triloki alleged.

Ankit and Dev Bharath then got into the pipes, while Triloki was asked to help them with the required tools.

There was no ladder to climb down and the opening of the pipe was as narrow as two feet diameter and six feet down below .

While they were wielding the pipes inside,heavy rains resulting in flooding in the pipes.The two workers tried to climb up,but because there was no ladder,they drowned in the water.

Triloki tried to pull them up,but failed.He raised alarm for help,but no one was around.He did not even have a mobile phone to inform the labour contractor and tried to check for the duo.

Around 9 pm,another labourer Pawan came to the site and the duo rushed to inform the accused.

Despite knowing about the incident,the accused did not turn up until 6 am on Wednesday.The accused later got the motor to pump out the water and pull out the bodies before informing the police,Triloki told the police.

The police rushed to the spot and shifted the bodies for post-mortem.The accused not only forced the labourers to continue work in the rain but also did not provide any safety gear hence liable for penal action, Triloki told the police.
In another incident , a 54-year-old labourer was killed after he slipped from the rooftop of a chemical factory while cleaning it to remove stagnant water during heavy rain at Sompura Industrial area in Dabaspet on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday.

The deceased Sakanna,54,a resident of Baragenahalli in Sompura,joined Organic Aromatic Chemicals a few days ago as a labourer.

On Tuesday,he was asked to climb up the rooftop of the factory and clean the sheets to clear water stagnation.

While Sakanna was cleaning,he slipped and crashed on the ground from 40 feet height and, sustaining severe injuries .

He was rushed to near-by hospital where the doctor declared him as brought dead.

The Dabaspete police have registered a case of death due to negligence against the owner of the factory for further investigations .

Investigations revealed that Sakanna was not given any safety gears .

The video of a man wading through chest deep water at the flooded Nayandahalli junction on May 17 night,mockingly thanking Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai for a ‘new swimming pool’ has gone viral.

In the video,he asks Mr.Bommai to join him in swimming at the flooded junction. 

This video, perhaps, best captured people’s anger at the Karnataka Government over the rain-induced havoc in Bengaluru on May 17-18.

In the absence of an elected council in the civic body, the State Government, particularly the seven ministers from the city and the Chief Minister who holds charge of the city,drew a lot of flak from the people not only for the way the city was flooded after Tuesday’s rains, but also at what many termed ‘apathy’.

Famous iconic UB City road was sub- merged with water logging.

Kendriya Vihar apartments in Yelahanka again sub merged due to heavy torrential rains due to which many trees were uprooted,around 300 vehicles washed away in rain.

Many underpass were Sub-merged due to heavy water logging in Sultanpet, BVK Iyengar road,Majestic,Okalipuram, Rajajinagar,KR Puram,KP Agrahara,Manjunath Nagar,Ittamaddu,Hosakerahalli, Vijayanagar, Nayandahalli,Mysore Road,BGS Flyover,and across city.

Low lying areas inundated with water sleepless night to citizens of Bengaluru who were busy in removing the water which entered their houses and apartments.

In K P Agrahara limits Residents staged a flash protest against the BBMP and local leaders who failed to visit the spot as water entering low lying areas.

By Rizwan ASAD

Mansoor Ali Khan And Nivedith Alva Aspiants For MLC Polls

Mansoor Ali Khan General Secretary KPCC

Nivedith Alva KPCC General Secretary

It was only on last Sunday, 15th May 2022 the grand old party had adopted the Nav Sankalp Declaration at Chintan Shivir organised in Udaipur where the who’s who of the Congress Party from across the country were present. Just days after the new resolution has been adopted by the Congress Party, the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee has ignored the major resolutions and is nominating two 73 year olds – SR Patil and Allum Veerabhadrappa to the biennial elections for six seats of the Karnataka Legislative Council which is scheduled to be held on June 3. Patil is the former IT-BT and Infrastructure Minister. Veerabhadrappa is an incumbent MLC and the former KPCC President.

This would have been the first opportunity for the Congress party to showcase its resolve to transform itself according to the decisions taken at the just concluded three-day Chintan Shivir where the Congress Working Committee adopted the Nav Shankalp Declaration.

“Many ideas arose about the continuation of the same person in the party for a long time. The principle of “one person, one position” should be implemented in the organisation. The party will set aside 50% of party positions for those less than 50 years of age in party committees at every level of the Congress organisation. The party has also approved 50% representation to SCs, STs, OBCs and minorities at all levels of the organisation, as part of its social engineering efforts to win the confidence of the weaker and oppressed sections of society. No person will hold one party position for more than five years. Once the tenure is over, the office bearers will have to resign from their post. This will be followed by a cooling period of three years in case the leader returns to the same post” read the Nav Sankalp declaration adopted by the Congress Party in Udaipur.

“These are testing times. Karnataka will be facing the Assembly elections next year and this is a time when the party has to accommodate and promote young faces rather than putting the same old repeated faces who has continuously lost. Congress party has to do away with such age old practices if they really want to take on the BJP. On the other hand BJP is pushing young and normal kaaryakartas who has worked on the ground” said a senior Congress leader on the condition of anonymity.

The Congress party’s decision to provide 50 per cent representation to those below 50 years of age at all levels of organisation, as per the declaration is a landmark decision. But it is precisely for not following up on their own decisions that many senior leaders have left the party. Recently CM Ibrahim, a senior Muslim leader left the party to join the JD(S) after being denied the post of LoP in the Legislative Council that was given to BK Hariprasad. Mansoor Ali khan son of Former Rajya sabha chairman K. Rehman Khan who is one of the aspirant and he qualifies to become a MLC as he is young,dynamic,educated and more over he is from miniority community and after C,M Ibrahim leaving The congress party Mansoor qualifies to become a MLC and the muslim Community are pinning the hopes on Mansoor and if He is not given the ticket many would be disspointed and many may leave the congress party,Mansoor ALI Khan Is also A General Secretary Of KPCC .Similary Nivedith Alva, a Christian and young face of the party was denied a chance and along with many young Lingayat faces have been neglected.