More permits to extract laterite stones will be issued in Dakshina Kannada, says Dinesh Gundu Rao

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Dakshina Kannada territory  in-charge Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao chairing the Karnataka Development Programme Review Committee gathering  successful  Mangaluru connected  Saturday, November 15.

Dakshina Kannada territory in-charge Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao chairing the Karnataka Development Programme Review Committee gathering successful Mangaluru connected Saturday, November 15. | Photo Credit: H.S. Manjunath

The Dakshina Kannada territory medication volition contented much permits to extract laterite stones from cultivation onshore to assistance bring down chromatic prices, said Dakshina Kannada territory in-charge and Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao successful Mangaluru connected Saturday, November 15.

During the quarterly Karnataka Development Programme Review Committee gathering chaired by Mr. Rao, Bantwal MLA U. Rajesh Naik said a laterite chromatic present outgo astir ₹50. Despite the State authorities reducing royalty, payable to the authorities for extracting stones, from ₹290 to ₹150 per tonne, the terms of the chromatic has not travel down.

MLC Manjunath Bhandary asked the territory medication to summation the fig of permits for extracting stones. Mangaluru City South MLA D. Vedavyasa Kamath said attraction should beryllium taken to not enforce a punishment connected a caller applicant for the amerciable extraction of laterite stones from the onshore by an earlier extractor.

Senior geologist G.U. Sandeep said that truthful far, 59 licences person been issued and these screen 28.94 acres of land. Now, 29 caller applications person been filed. These applications volition beryllium cleared successful different 10 days, helium said.

Mr. Rao said an enquiry volition beryllium conducted into the alleged merchantability of expired drugs astatine the District Ayush Hospital, and that disciplinary enactment volition beryllium taken against those acrophobic if the allegation is recovered to beryllium true.

He further directed an authoritative from Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation to complete, by December, the repair of roads damaged successful Mangaluru for the Jalasiri drinking h2o proviso project. He directed the Mangaluru metropolis constabulary to let the Public Works Department to repair the pothole-filled roadworthy from Pumpwell Junction to Karavali Circle.

The Minister asked Deputy Commissioner H.V. Darshan to clasp a gathering with the nine moving the Yemmekere Swimming Pool and parents of national-level medallists and resoluteness the contented of swimmers being banned from grooming nether their coaches astatine the pool.

Mr. Darshan said each applications nether Section 94CC of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, which allows regularisation of amerciable concern of authorities lands successful municipality areas, volition beryllium cleared by December 25.

Mr. Rao besides said enactment volition beryllium taken against empanelled backstage hospitals nether Ayushman Bharat Arogya Karnataka strategy for refusal to supply exigency treatment.

Published - November 16, 2025 06:24 p.m. IST

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