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Karnataka finally provides free transport for migrants through KSRTC buses
This comes after the Karnataka Congress gave a cheque of Rs 1 crore to facilitate the free passage of migrants to their hometowns.
The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) began allowing people to take government buses from Sunday onwards for free. Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has put out a tweet on Sunday morning stating that all migrants from within the state are free to take buses back home from Bengaluru city. The buses are free for the next three days, that is until Tuesday, May 5. This move especially applies to those who are daily wage workers. "Workers and poor daily wage workers have an opportunity to travel for free in KSRTC buses from Sunday to Tuesday. These KSRTC buses can be taken from Bengaluru or the district capitals to their native places which is free for everyone. This will be paid for by the government. Please wear masks. Maintain social distance. Please make use of this facility," BS Yediyurappa tweeted. Majestic bust stand right now. Announcement being made that bus travel to their homes is free. Absolutely welcome decision. Now to declare all train travel by inter -state migrant workers free as well. @aicctukar @vinaysreeni pic.twitter.com/8NMJMyUGdc — Clifton D' Rozario (@clifroz) May 3, 2020 The state government’s directive comes after immense public pressure and criticism. The migrant labourers who have had no work for more than a month were being forced to pay double or triple the rates for a single ticket. Moreover, KSRTC had said that they will run buses only if there were more than 30 passengers on one route. The issue was also taken up by Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) leader DK Shivakumar, who spoke for stranded citizens who were being forced to pay exorbitant fares for passage back to their hometowns. DK Shivakumar had also given a cheque of Rs 1 crore to KSRTC on behalf of KPCC. Along with a video message posted on Facebook, the leader wrote, “Giving ₹1 crore cheque to KSRTC from the KPCC for ensuring Free Transport to our working class & labour people who are suffering to reach home because of the rates being charged by the Karnataka Govt. Govt should let us know if they need more, the KPCC will fulfil that as well.” (sic) “The government can afford flights but cannot afford to send back the poor Karnataka people to their families,” he said in a video message. He had also said that “the government was the one that put the lockdown in place and it should not penalise the poor for it.” He had also threatened to begin a massive protest against the state government if it did not address the issue. “Is the government so poor? Migrants have no earnings, they’re dying of poverty. Don’t make them pay to get back to their villages,” @DKShivakumar tells @BSYBJP & @LaxmanSavadi. @DeccanHerald pic.twitter.com/qKzuuy2fmv — Bharath Joshi (@bharathjoshi) May 1, 2020
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Six officials of two real estate companies booked in B'luru for not paying labourers
Around 700 workers are awaiting their payment since October 2019.
Officials attached with two real estate majors, Simplex Infrastructure and Salarpuria Sattva, have been booked by police for not paying salaries to around 700 labourers in Bengaluru since October. The FIR (first information report) by Byatarayanapura Police Station against five officials of the two companies has been registered under Sections 406 (Punishment for criminal breach of trust.), 417 (punishment for cheating), 420 (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 491 (Breach of contract to attend on and supply wants of helpless person) and 34 (common intention). The accused have been named as A1-PK Mishra,, A2-Govind Raj, A3-Prakash, A4-Honesh Murthy attached to Salarpuria Sattva Divinity Project at Nayandahalli. The A5 in the case is Jai Dev Rai, A6 is Praveen Kumar who are working with SImplex Infrastructures. The FIR was registered based on the complaint of a sub-contractor and labourer from Odisha, Anang Nayak, who was hired by Simplex. Speaking with TNM, Ananag said, “There are around 23 labourers working under me. From October, payments are left pending. In total in the Nayandahalli area, there are 700 labourers, working under 55 big, small contractors, who are desperately waiting for their salaries. We were told all our due payments will be cleared by March 31 but since the lockdown the contractors are not picking up their phones and there is no way to reach them.\ “When there is no work and they are in distress why are they delaying the wages? In total I am owed a total of Rs 6,28,000 for me and the workers who work with me,” he added. Basawa, a lawyer working with the Alternative Law Forum in Bengaluru said that in this FIR was preceded by a complaint registered by the Labour Department under the Payment of Wages Act. “In this case, Simplex was hired by Salarpuria to do construction, plastering and housekeeping work for a residential project. So here Salarpuria is supposed to pay Simplex and Simplex pays to the workers themselves individually or through sub-contractors. In this case, there are 700 workers who were not paid their full wages from October 2019. And when there was no solution, the workers went on strike in February. Reacting to the protest, the Assistant General Manager of Simplex made a promise on the company letterhead that by March 31 all payments will be made. But then there was lockdown and there was no communication made to the workers,” he said. He added, “So in this lockdown a video depicting the distress by the workers caught the attention of the Chief Minister and Suresh Kumar, Education Minister from the government side visited the workers sometime in the beginning of April. Then he also made promises that he will sort the workers’ issues and then the complaint with the Labour Commissioner was issued.”
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Defence forces to shower petals, play music to honour corona warriors
This will be done as part of the armed forces’ elaborate arrangements to conduct aerial fly-pasts, light up ships at sea and shower flower petals on several hospitals across the country.
The Ministry of Defence on Sunday said that the Indian Air force is going to thank all doctors, medical staff and others involved in the fight against COVID-19 by dropping flower petals on Victoria hospital and Command Hospital by helicopter. A spokesperson said a transport aircraft will do a flypast at 3:45 pm over Vidhana Soudha and petals will be dropped between 10:30 am-10:45 am at the Victoria and Command Hospitals. pic.twitter.com/Ke8DsDA3s6 — PRO Bengaluru, Ministry of Defence (@Prodef_blr) May 3, 2020 A band of the Indian Air Force will also perform at Victoria Hospital from 10 am. At 7:30 pm in the evening naval ship INS Vikramaditya will be illuminated which is at anchorage off the Karwar coast. The transport aircraft will first fly over Hyderabad’s Hussain Sagar at 2.40 pm. From there, at 3.45 pm the aircraft will fly over Karnataka’s Vidhan Soudha. The aircraft will then travel over the Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram at 5.15 pm and end in Sulur in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore at 5.55 pm. Flower petals will be will be dropped at Thiruvananthapuram’s Medical College and General Hospitals. From there, they will travel to Chennai where flower petals will be dropped over TN Govt Multi Super Speciality Hospital and the RG General Hospital. Flower petals will be then dropped at the Victoria and Command Hospitals in Bengaluru. From there, the helicopters will proceed towards Hyderabad, and petals will be showered over Gandhi Medical College. The IAF on Sunday morning tweeted that the fighter aircraft training mission departure as well as helicopter departure has been delayed by one hour, due to rains over Delhi This will be done as part of the armed forces’ elaborate arrangements to conduct aerial fly-pasts, light up ships at sea and shower flower petals on several hospitals across the country on Sunday to express gratitude to lakhs of doctors, paramedics, sanitation staff and other front-line workers engaged in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat earlier on Friday had announced that the three services will carry out a series of activities to thank the "corona warriors". The thanks-giving activities started with laying of wreaths at the police memorial in Delhi and in several other cities on Sunday morning to honour the police personnel deployed for enforcement of the nationwide lockdown. Cities where fighter jets of IAF will conduct fly-pasts include Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Patna and Lucknow. Transport aircraft of the force will carry out similar drills in a number of cities including Srinagar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Jaipur, Bhopal, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Coimbatore and Thiruvananthapuram, officials had said on Friday. Military bands will play "patriotic tunes" outside various civil hospitals treating coronavirus patients across the country while the Navy will light up its ships and sound the siren of the ships and fire flares at 7:30 PM at anchorage. (with PTI inputs) .
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Six Bengaluru wards removed from list of containment zones
The Karnataka government has sought a ward-wise zoning in city, which has been marked as a red zone.
With the lockdown to fight the Covid-19 pandemic getting extended by two more weeks till May 17, the Karnataka government urged the Centre to divide Bengaluru into four zones: green, orange, yellow and red, so as to ease its relaxation norms. Currently, Bengaluru Urban and Bengaluru Rural have both been designated as red zones by the Centre. Though Bengaluru has accounted for 145 of the 601 Covid positive cases across the southern state, with 71 discharged, 67 active and 6 dead till date, only 43 of its 198 civic wards have been affected by the pandemic since March 11. The remaining wards have not reported new cases over the last 14-28 days. In this regard, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Commissioner Anil Kumar has issued two orders on Saturday stating that six wards which were earlier categorized containment zones within them will no longer have such restrictions in those containment zones. The remaining restrictions including in two wards which were sealed will remain in place. These wards are 177 (JP Nagar), 171 (Gurappanapalya), 107(Shiva Nagar), 54 (Hoodi), 25 (Horamavu) and 191 (Singasandra). With this, residents in these wards will enjoy the lockdown relaxations applicable in red zones starting from Monday. "As the Centre has categorised Bengaluru Urban and Bengaluru Rural as one contiguous district and declared it as a red zone, further extension of lockdown norms will be applicable, holding up economic activity in areas which had no COVID-19 cases since the last 14-28 days," State Revenue Minister R Ashoka told reporters. He mentioned with Bengaluru contributing a whopping 60% of the state gross domestic product (SGDP) as India's tech city, a prolonged lockdown since March 25 to contain the coronavirus spread has taken a toll on its economic activity across the sectors. "As the whole city of over 1 crore people has been made one unit, even one positive case makes it a red zone. The affected areas from where cases were reported should be declared as containment zones or hotspots while categorising other areas as green spots," said Ashok. (With IANS inputs)
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Defence forces to shower petals, play music to honour corona warriors
This will be done as part of the armed forces’ elaborate arrangements to conduct aerial fly-pasts, light up ships at sea and shower flower petals on several hospitals across the country.
The Ministry of Defence on Sunday said that the Indian Air force is going to thank all doctors, medical staff and others involved in the fight against COVID-19 by dropping flower petals on Victoria hospital and Command Hospital by helicopter. A spokesperson said a transport aircraft will do a flypast at 3:45 pm over Vidhana Soudha and petals will be dropped between 10:30 am-10:45 am at the Victoria and Command Hospitals. pic.twitter.com/Ke8DsDA3s6 — PRO Bengaluru, Ministry of Defence (@Prodef_blr) May 3, 2020 A band of the Indian Air Force will also perform at Victoria Hospital from 10 am. At 7:30 pm in the evening naval ship INS Vikramaditya will be illuminated which is at anchorage off the Karwar coast. The transport aircraft will first fly over Hyderabad’s Hussain Sagar at 2.40 pm. From there, at 3.45 pm the aircraft will fly over Karnataka’s Vidhan Soudha. The aircraft will then travel over the Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram at 5.15 pm and end in Sulur in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore at 5.55 pm. Flower petals will be will be dropped at Thiruvananthapuram’s Medical College and General Hospitals. From there, they will travel to Chennai where flower petals will be dropped over TN Govt Multi Super Speciality Hospital and the RG General Hospital. Flower petals will be then dropped at the Victoria and Command Hospitals in Bengaluru. From there, the helicopters will proceed towards Hyderabad, and petals will be showered over Gandhi Medical College. The IAF on Sunday morning tweeted that the fighter aircraft training mission departure as well as helicopter departure has been delayed by one hour, due to rains over Delhi This will be done as part of the armed forces’ elaborate arrangements to conduct aerial fly-pasts, light up ships at sea and shower flower petals on several hospitals across the country on Sunday to express gratitude to lakhs of doctors, paramedics, sanitation staff and other front-line workers engaged in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat earlier on Friday had announced that the three services will carry out a series of activities to thank the "corona warriors". The thanks-giving activities started with laying of wreaths at the police memorial in Delhi and in several other cities on Sunday morning to honour the police personnel deployed for enforcement of the nationwide lockdown. Cities where fighter jets of IAF will conduct fly-pasts include Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Patna and Lucknow. Transport aircraft of the force will carry out similar drills in a number of cities including Srinagar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Jaipur, Bhopal, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Coimbatore and Thiruvananthapuram, officials had said on Friday. Military bands will play "patriotic tunes" outside various civil hospitals treating coronavirus patients across the country while the Navy will light up its ships and sound the siren of the ships and fire flares at 7:30 PM at anchorage. (with PTI inputs) .
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Six Bengaluru wards removed from list of containment zones
The Karnataka government has sought a ward-wise zoning in city, which has been marked as a red zone.
With the lockdown to fight the Covid-19 pandemic getting extended by two more weeks till May 17, the Karnataka government urged the Centre to divide Bengaluru into four zones: green, orange, yellow and red, so as to ease its relaxation norms. Currently, Bengaluru Urban and Bengaluru Urban have both been designated as red zones by the Centre. Though Bengaluru has accounted for 145 of the 601 Covid positive cases across the southern state, with 71 discharged, 67 active and 6 dead till date, only 43 of its 198 civic wards have been affected by the pandemic since March 11. The remaining wards have not reported new cases over the last 14-28 days. In this regard, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Commissioner Anil Kumar has issued two orders on Saturday stating that six wards which were earlier categorized containment zones within them will no longer have such restrictions in those containment zones. The remaining restrictions including in two wards which were sealed will remain in place. These wards are 177 (JP Nagar), 171 (Gurappanapalya), 107(Shiva Nagar), 54 (Hoodi), 25 (Horamavu) and 191 (Singasandra). With this, residents in these wards will enjoy the lockdown relaxations applicable in red zones starting from Monday. "As the Centre has categorised Bengaluru Urban and Bengaluru Rural as one contiguous district and declared it as a red zone, further extension of lockdown norms will be applicable, holding up economic activity in areas which had no COVID-19 cases since the last 14-28 days," State Revenue Minister R Ashoka told reporters. He mentioned with Bengaluru contributing a whopping 60% of the state gross domestic product (SGDP) as India's tech city, a prolonged lockdown since March 25 to contain the coronavirus spread has taken a toll on its economic activity across the sectors. "As the whole city of over 1 crore people has been made one unit, even one positive case makes it a red zone. The affected areas from where cases were reported should be declared as containment zones or hotspots while categorising other areas as green spots," said Ashok. (With IANS inputs)
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