Administration, however, says enough buses operate during peak hours
Monday’s action by Udupi Deputy Commissioner in getting excess passengers from an overcrowded bus offloaded at Kallianpur-Santhekatte for defying COVID-19 protocol came under severe criticism after the video of a student airing her difficulties went viral on social media platforms.
The girl, apparently an undergraduate student, said that she went to her college in Udupi as there was a semester examination. “Otherwise, I would have stayed home,” she said. There are very few direct buses to her place, Shiriyara near Siddapura, from Udupi operating at a frequency of about half an hour each. “Every bus during the peak hours get overcrowded and getting us off the bus without offering any alternative arrangement was inhuman,” she lamented.
Kundapur residents want solution to service road issues
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Rashtriya Heddari Horata Samithi convenes meeting to discuss absence of shoulder drains and other problems
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Rashtriya Heddari Horata Samithi convenes meeting to discuss absence of shoulder drains and other problems
Residents of Kundapur have resolved to invite Udupi Deputy Commissioner and officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to visit service roads of National Highway 66 passing through the town so as to address their concern about shoulder drains, median openings and other concerns.
Rashtriya Heddari Horata Samithi convened a meeting on Saturday in view of the work on Shastri Circle Flyover and the vehicular overpass at Basrur Moorkai for the four-laning project coming to an end. This work, however, commenced about 12 years ago. The samithi said that while the work on flyovers was nearing completion, project concessionaire Navayuga Udupi Tollway Pvt. Ltd. was least
Several fined for not wearing face masks
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Udupi Deputy Commissioner G. Jagadeesha fined those who did not wear face masks at Santhekatte in Udupi city on Monday. He advised people to always wear masks in public places.
Mr. Jagadeesha, who is also the District Magistrate, imposed fine on drivers and conductors of five buses for overloading.
The Deputy Commissioner instructed the officials to register cases against owners of these buses and told the drivers and the conductors that passengers should not be allowed to stand inside buses while travelling.
Mr. Jagadeesha made passengers who were standing on these buses get off the vehicles and board other buses where seats were available. He asked the conductors concerned to return the ticket fare to passengers who were disembarked. The Deputy Commissioner also took these passengers to task.
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