Meets religious leaders; lists Standard Operating Procedures for dignified last rites of COVID-19 victims Madikeri: Following viral visuals of COVID-19 victims being denied dignity in death in some parts of the State, Kodagu Deputy Commissioner Annies Kanmani Joy has sought co-operation from various religious heads to conduct the last rites in a dignified manner and…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysore City Pensioners Association has urged the Kodagu Deputy Commissioner (DC) not to accord approval or No Objection Certificate (NOC) for conversion of wetlands/paddy lands for commercial purposes, housing colonies and layouts to protect the fragile ecosystem of Kodagu that was ravaged by two years of back-to-back floods and landslides. In a letter…
Many houses have slant, hollow and cracked walls, roots protrude from foundations 463 houses built at Jamboor and Madenadu to be handed over on May 29 by CM Yediyurappa Mysore/Mysuru: This monsoon, the 2018 flood and landslide victims of Kodagu whose houses were washed away leaving hundreds of them homeless were hoping to start a…
District administration directs for relocation of 236 families living in disaster-prone areas Madikeri: With the Meteorological Department force-casting that Monsoon may pick up in Kodagu after June 20, the people residing in villages, which were devastated in last year’s floods, are feeling scared, apprehending monsoon fury. The Geological Survey of India has listed 13 villages…
Madikeri CMC serves notices to residents who have built houses in hilly terrain Madikeri: Kodagu Deputy Commissioner Annies Kanmani Joy has asked District officials to shift people from flood-prone and vulnerable areas to relief centres in case monsoon wreaks havoc this year too like last year. At a meeting with Nodal Officers held at DC…
Madikeri: The Kodagu District Administration has said that 35 workers in coffee estates and plantations have died of electrocution in the last four-and-a-half years. This has been attributed to the practice of using specially-fabricated metallic ladders, which tend to be up to 30 feet high, to reach tree tops for pruning. But there is an…
Madikeri: IAS Officer Annies Kanmani Joy has been appointed as the new Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Kodagu. Her appointment comes after P.I. Sreevidya, who was serving as Kodagu DC, went on a two-month leave some time ago. With Sreevidya going on a long leave, Kodagu ZP CEO K. Lakshmipriya had taken charge as the Acting…
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