Congested Barkur Town Needs Better Traffic Planning

Several dangerous curves lie on the Brahmavar-Barkur–Halady Road, near here. Heavy vehicles laden with road-building materials for four-lane conversion work are posing a threat to the general public.

A minor bridge was built across a rivulet by acquiring land in order to link the villages of Handady, Herady, Yedtady, Kallady, Shiriyara, and Gavali with Barkur.  Traffic was limited in the past, but as Barkur town grew the congestion necessitated the need for broadening the roads.

Roads threatened to collapse?

The heavy vehicles supplying materials for the national highway four-lane work with maximum tonnage are worsening the state of a road that is on the verge of collapse claim the locals.

Barkur – traffic congested town

Barkur is a small town where traffic was very limited.  Traffic in the recent past grown significantly and causes severe traffic bottlenecks since shops are situated close to the road that has to accommodate parking of auto rickshaws, cars, and other vehicles.  Hundreds of buses, trucks, and tankers are plying through Brahmavar via Hulikal Ghat towards Shimoga and Sagar since this route is the shortest.  Overnight passenger buses are plying on the Barkur-Saibarakatte – Jannady route. 

Many culverts that were built in 1970, before building Barkur bridge, are in a deplorable state.  Although the elected representatives daily ply on this road, none of them has taken this issue seriously.  The families living on the edge of the road are severely affected as the heavy vehicles are likely to raze their houses.  The locals are urging the department to acquire their lands for broadening the roads in their neighbourhood.

“If the Barkur Kelapete is developed, traffic will improve on the national highway,” says Koodli Satyanarayan Udupa.

“If the outskirts of Barkur town are developed, it will improve traffic,” says Ganesh Kunder.

“Several memorandums were presented to the district administration for broadening roads in Barkur town.  If the works are further delayed, the locals will stage a united struggle,” says Satish Poojary Barkur.

“The congestion in Barkur town stresses the need for undertaking widening works of roads,” says Satish Shetty Yedtady.

Suvarna Brahmavar
Daijiworld Media Network—Udupi (RD/CN)

SPA celebrates Patron’s Feast with pomp and gaiety

St.Peter’s Association (Barkur) Mumbai, or SPA as its popularly known, one of the prominent associations of Mangaloreans in Mumbai,  celebrated its 23^rd anniversary and the feast of its Patron, St.Peter on 3^rd July at Chakala, Andheri.

The association serving in Mumbai and native place Barkur for more than 2 decades is gearing up for its Silver Jubilee Celebrations.

The day began with the Thanks giving Holy mass at the Holy Family Church, Chakala, concelebrated by Rev.Fr.Bosko, SJ., followed by Annual General Body Meeting at the Holy family High School hall.

Entrepreneurs Harry Rebello, Chembur, Ben Lewis and Lion Benny F.Barnes were the chief guests at the stage program held as the part of the festivities.

President  Richard Carvalho welcomed the gathering and honored the guests with bouquets. Honorary General Secretary, Ivan Rebello presented the annual report. Former President Felix Barnes announced the names of new office bearers elected for the year 2011-2015 and informed the gathering about the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the association. Mrs. Ida Roche, Chair Person of Silver Jubilee committee, briefed about the plans and preparations for the Silver Jubilee celebrations.

Vice Presidents, Peter Furtado and Norbert Menezes, Honorary Treasurer Antony Dais, Former President Henry Roche and other office bearers were present on the stage. Mrs.Nirmala Rebello conducted the prayer service.

Various games were conducted after the stage program were thoroughly enjoyed by the gathering. Secretary Eric Carvalho conducted the proceedings and Joylan Fernandes conducted the entertainment program.

Ivan Suares proposed the vote of thanks.

New Committee for the 2011-2015:

Peter Furtado  and Ivan Rebello

Felix Barnes and Ida Roche

Mr.Simon Peter Furtado (President), Mr. Norbert Menezes and Mr. Vincent Fernandes (Vice Presidents), Mr. Ivan Rebello (Gen. Secretary), Mr. Eric Carvalho (Secretary), Mr. Antony Dias (Treasurer), Mr. Ivan Martis (Jt. Treasurer), Mr. Jolwyn Furtado (P.R.O).

Mr. Antony Gonsalves, Mr. Wilfred Sequeira, Mr. John Gonsalves, Mr. Bony Sequeira, Mr. Ivan Suares, Mr. Richard Martis, Mr. Rolf Monterio, Mr. Arthur Furtado, Mr. Reginald Crasto, Mr. Arthur Mendonza, Mr. Norman D’souza, Mr. Joylan Fernandes (Managing Committee Members),  Mr.Felix Barnes and Mrs. Ida Roche (Chairpersons, Silver Jubilee Celebration Organizing Committee) and All Past Presidents are selected as Advisors

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St.Peter's Association (Barkur) Mumbai celebrating the Annual Feast

St.Peter's Association (Barkur) Mumbai, popularly known as SPA Mumbai considered as one of the premier associations of Mangaloreans in Mumbai is all geared up for its annual festivities on 3rd July.

As the patron St.Peter's Feast is celebrated on 29th of June at the native place, SPA is celebrating its annual day the following Sunday.

The thanks giving mass is at Holy Family Church, Andheri at 0930 a.m. followed by the Annual General Meeting at 11 a.m at Holy Family High School Hall, Andheri East, followed by the celebrations and lunch.

The association extends its warm invitations to all Barkurians, specially residing at Mumbai and elsewhere and the well wishers along with their family to the high mass and the celebrations.

Barkur‘s own IT wizard selected for Australian System Administrator's Conference (SAGE-AU'2011). 

Barkuronline.com is proud to announce the acceptance of the proposals of Swayam Prakasha Aithal of Moodukeri, Barkur  for the Australian System Administrator's Conference (SAGE-AU'2011).  Authored by him,  proposal  titled ‘Open Source solutions for High Availability and Disaster Recovery’ in the category of  disaster recovery  have been provisionally accepted for SAGE-AU 19th Annual Conference being held at Hilton on the Park Melbourne from 19-23 September 2011. More details can be obtained at http://conference.sage-au.org.au/

Swayam Prakasha is regularly presenting his papers in The System Administrators Guild Of Australia (SAGE-AU) from the past couple of years.

A seasoned IT veteran, Swayam Prakasha, as his name indicates, has been shining in the field of Information Technology for several years on his own steam, concentrating on areas such as operating systems, networking, network security, electronic commerce, Internet services, LDAP and Web servers.  Presently based in Bangalore, Swayam has authored a number of articles for trade publications, and he presents his own papers at industry conferences.

He can be reached at swayam.prakasha@gmail.com.

Little Rock Principal's Book ‘Soliloquies of a Principal’ Released

A book by Prof Mathew C Ninan, principal of Little Rock Indian School, Brahmavar was released by Dr  K Ramnarayan, vice chancellor of Manipal University.

The book titled “Soliloquies of a Principal” is in fact a compendium of select articles on school education written by Prof Mathew C Ninan.

Dr. Ramnarayan while releasing the book lauded the efforts of principal Ninan in penning down his insightful thoughts, which are both timely and timeless. He said they were timely because schools today needed a sense of direction and purpose as outlined in the book. They are timeless because of the enduring value of the thoughts embedded in the book. He also appreciated the ‘tremendous conviction and astounding clarity’ of the author.

James Varghese, trustee who presided over the programme received the first copy of the book and said Prof Ninan’s commitment to education and his caring attitude towards the staff and students are his most striking qualities. This is how Little Rock became a unique school, the school with a difference, he noted.

In his remarks Prof, Ninan said his most important concern about school education has always been the welfare of children. He said Little Rock adopted the slogan “every child matters’ for this reason. Now he wants to propagate the theme “school is for children”. Usually in practice school is for teachers. We need to change this perception, and focus on children. I would be most gratified if the book influences more schools and teachers in this direction, he said.

Arjun Raghunath, the topper of Class XII and his parents were felicitated on the occasion. Lali Mathew, vice principal who presented the achievements of Arjun said his 98% in Class X and 97.4% in Class XII are records in the history of Little Rock.

The vice chancellor felicitated Prof Rahgunath Rudran and  Anita Rahgunath, parents of Arjun.

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Obituary

Clifford Lobo, Hosala Barkur

Clifford Lobo, ( 68 years) S/O Late Margaret/ Late Appi Gabriel Lobo,H/O Helen Lobo, B/O Late Rosy/Charles Lewis, Charles/Philomena, William/Nancy, Fredrick/Jayashree, Irene/Raymond Pereira
Born : 23/11/1942 Died : 26/05/2011

Funeral Cortege leaves  residence, Hosala Barkur,  at 4 pm to church of St.Peter, Barkur.

Dr.Sr.Helen Consilia  Road inaugurated at Thenkabettu, Moodahadu

The newly constructed road benefiting 23 families of Thenkabettu was inaugurated at Moodahadu. The road was initiated by the funds donated by the Fernandes Family of Thenkabettu and was completed with the co operation of the like minded people who generously donated their land for the benefit of the public.

Kota Shrinivasa Poojari, member of the State Legislative council inaugurated the road by cutting the ribbon and Mrs. Theresa Fernandes opened the sign board of the road.

Vitala Poojari, President of the Pandeshawar Grama Panchayha, presided over the stage function that was held later.

Rev.Fr.Remegeous Aranha , Parish Priest, St.Peter’s Church, Barkur, Sunitha Rajajram, Member, Jilla Panchayth, Udupi, Roshini Olivera, Member, Taluk Panchayath, Prashanth Shetty, Vice President, Pandeshwara Grama Parnchayath, Wilfred Roche and Raveesh Shreayan, Members, Pandeshwara Grama Parnchayath, and Mrs.Teresa Andrade were present on the stage.

Prafulla Fernandes briefed about Late  Dr.Sr.Helen Consilia, who dedicated her life in the service of needy at Hyderabad, and the background of naming the new road after this great departed soul.

Kota Srinivasa Poojari congratulated the initiative taken by the Fernandes Family and people from the village and remembered the earlier Dr.Gabriel Fernandes Road which was totally funded by Dr.Gabriel Fernandes, who is a renowned scientist at USA, and appreciated the concern of the Fernandes Family towards their birth place and people even though they are away from the native place. He also commended the local villagers for their co operation and unity for getting together for achievement of a common goal.

Joseph Fernandes proposed the vote of thanks. Alwayn Andrade, welcomed the gathering and conducted the proceedings.

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Konkani Sahithya Academy Award conferred on Antony Barkur and others

Secretary, Department of Kannada and Culture, Ramesh Zalki, has said the Government is committed to promoting all minor languages in the State.Releasing the publications of the Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy at a function to present the annual awards here on Saturday, Mr. Zalki said the Government was concerned about protecting Tulu, Konkani, Byari and Kodava  languages.

Though Konkani was being spoken in the neighboring States of Goa, Maharashtra and Kerala, none of these States  had shown interest in setting up an academy to promote the language. But the Karnataka Government had set up an exclusive academy and had recently increased the annual grant.

“Showing special concern for Konkani, the Government has earmarked Rs. 5 crore for development of the language,” he said.

Awards

Mr. Zalki presented honorary awards to Agnel Rodrigues, Edward Nazareth and Gopinath Bhat for their contribution to language, literature and theatre and presented book awards to Stephen Quadros Permude, Anthony Prakash D'Souza and Catherine Rodrigues.

Anthony Prakash D’Souza Barkur  bagged the Poetry Award for his collection of Konkani poems ‘Kat Tutcho Vell’. 

Hailing from Moodahadu Kudru in Barkur, Antony D'Souza is an IT professional, currently residing in Bangalore. His collection of poems was published by Kavita Trust and was released by Jayant Kaikini on Kavita Festh 2010 held at Moodahadu Kudru in Januaray 2010.

Prakash Kharvi and Stanley R. D'Costa received special awards for their contribution to sports and the legal field.

Noted historian Suryanath Kamath recalled the contribution of Konkani-speaking writers, including Panje Mangesharaya, Manjeshwara Govinda Pai and Dinakara Desai in enriching Kannada and appealed to the Konkani  fraternity to protect their language and culture.

Inaugurating the function, MLA for Malleshwaram Ashwathanarayana observed that the major challenge people faced today was protecting their language and culture in a globalised society. In the race to achieve economic progress, culture had been sidelined in recent years, he noted.

Detailing the activities of the academy, Registrar Shivarudrappa, said that over 800 programmes had been conducted, 56 works had been published and two CDs had been brought out on the language. The academy had conferred 63 honorary awards and 33 book awards.

Presiding over the function, academy chairman Kundapura  Narayana  Kharvi expressed his gratitude to the Government for its support.

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