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In bid to extremity the menace to motorists from spilled wastewater connected the roads by food transporting vehicles, the Mangaluru City Traffic constabulary person asked Dakshina Kannada territory medication to conception septic tanks astatine regular intervals on the highways for vehicles to discharge wastewater accumulated successful conveyance tanks.
In the territory roadworthy information gathering chaired by Deputy Commissioner H.V. Darshan connected Tuesday, the metropolis postulation constabulary officials said the food transporters and food mill owners person expressed the request of septic tanks for the discharge of wastewater on the National Highways starring to Kerala, Bengaluru and Udupi. Kerala Government has constructed septic tanks on the National Highways successful Kerala.
The postulation officials said the food dealers person suggested operation of septic tanks adjacent toll gates successful Talapady and Hejamady, and adjacent Farangipete. The food carrying lorries volition drain the wastewater collected successful the 2 tanks attached to the lorries to the septic tanks. District medication should instrumentality contiguous enactment for operation of septic tanks, the officials urged.
NHAI measures
NHAI task manager Abdulla Javed Azmi said roadworthy information measures, including installation of postulation signals, having zebra crossing and median railings, person been taken betwixt Haleyangadi and Talapady of National Highway 66 for information of motorists and pedestrians. Median openings, wherever accidents occurred, person been closed, helium said.
The roadworthy information committee members said steps should beryllium taken to vacate thoroughfare vendors operating adjacent Kallapu, Jeppinamogaru, Thokkottu junctions.
Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner Ravi Chandra Naik said MCC has continued its enactment to region thoroughfare vendors operating connected the footpaths of Hampankatta, State Bank, Central Market area. Only thoroughfare vendors with individuality cards fixed by MCC volition beryllium permitted to run successful these areas, helium said.
The metropolis postulation constabulary said they person held meetings with backstage metropolis autobus operators astir operating buses from the recently constructed autobus basal adjacent Mangaladevi temple. The officials said metropolis buses volition soon commencement operating from the caller autobus stand.
Suspended
Police said driving licences of 384 drivers of vehicles, progressive successful the 433 grievous postulation accidents betwixt 2025 and April 30, 2026, person been placed nether suspension successful the district. In the period, constabulary and RTO officials person collected good from 1,855 drunken driving, 201 shrill horn, 184 overload vehicles, 99 overloaded schoolhouse vehicles and 12 ‘tint’ solid cases, the officials stated.
