Srirangapatna: Mandya MP Sumalatha Ambarish said that she will raise the issue of bringing Madiwala community in the list of Scheduled Castes (SC). She was speaking at the inauguration of Mandya District unit of Madiwala Okkoota and Machideva awards conferment programme organised at Ambedkar Bhavan in Srirangapatna yesterday. Observing that Madiwala community is economically, academically,…
Central team visits KRS Dam
August 28, 2021Srirangapatna: Even as the debate over the safety and stability of KRS Dam in the taluk has continued in the backdrop of illegal stone quarrying and mining, a 6-member Central team of the Union Jal Shakti Ministry visited the Dam site on Friday and carried out an inspection. As per the directions of Jal Shakti…
Mysuru-Bengaluru 10-lane Expressway: Unscientific, says Sumalatha; Pratap Simha hits back
August 20, 2021Mandya: Mandya MP Sumalatha Ambarish has termed the works of the 10-lane Expressway between Mysuru and Bengaluru as unscientific and would inconvenience people of Kodihalli in Maddur taluk. At the DISHA (District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee) meeting held in Mandya on Wednesday, Sumalatha said that the works are not being undertaken scientifically. “Take Kodihalli…
ILLEGAL MINING AROUND KRS DAM: Sumalatha meets Home Minister; seeks CBI probe
July 31, 2021New Delhi: Mandya MP Sumalatha Ambarish, who has repeatedly raised the issue of rampant illegal mining around the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam that has threatened the safety of the Dam, yesterday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi. She pressed for a CBI probe into the illegal quarrying and mining around the…
Sumalatha takes mining issue to VP
July 25, 2021New Delhi: Mandya MP Sumalatha Ambarish is continuing her efforts to stop illegal mining in the vicinity of Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam. After raising the issue in the Parliament, she met Vice-President (VP) M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday and had discussion with him to exert pressure on the Government to stop stone mining and…
Sumalatha raises KRS Dam safety issue in Lok Sabha
July 21, 2021New Delhi: After meeting Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla yesterday seeking permission to raise the issue of illegal and rampant mining in the vicinity of Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam in Mandya, MP Sumalatha Ambarish raised the issue in Parliament this noon after she was permitted by the Chair. She said, in India there are…
Sumalatha seeks CBI probe into KRS Dam illegal mining
July 21, 2021Meets Union Jal Shakthi, Mining Ministers Seeks Speaker’s nod to raise issue in Parliament Mysore/Mysuru: Determined to take the stone mining and blasting issue around the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam to a logical end, Mandya MP Sumalatha Ambarish called upon Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in New Delhi yesterday to urge the Centre…
Live gelatin sticks dumped near Bebi Betta quarry
July 18, 2021Srirangapatna: Memories of a deadly dynamite blast, claiming at least six lives of those trying to dispose of gelatin sticks fearing Police search at a quarry site in Herenagaveli village of Chikkaballapura taluk in February this year, returned to haunt on Thursday at Bebi Betta in Pandavapura when a huge cache of live gelatin sticks…
I stand by my words on cracks in KRS Dam: Mandya MP
July 14, 2021‘CNNL officers are not qualified Dam safety certifying authority’ Srirangapatna: In the backdrop of her statement that Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam has developed cracks due to rampant stone mining and blasting around it, Mandya MP Sumalatha Ambarish visited the Dam this morning and took first-hand information from the officials. A heavy posse of Policemen…
Miners haven’t paid Rs.1,200 crore Royalty to Government: MP
July 14, 2021Mandya: Taking a dig at the Department of Mines and Geology, Mandya MP Sumalatha Ambarish took the officials to task for not collecting Rs. 1,200 crore Royalty due to the State Government from the district mining companies for the last so many years. Talking to reporters after holding a meeting with Officials at the DC…
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