Daijiworld News Network - Mangalore (MB)
Pic Dayanand Kukkaje
Mangalore, Dec 28: In cities like Mangalore, good roads were a dire necessity than metrorail and there was an urgent need to entrust the management of the city to experts' hands, opined state planning commission vice chairman Dr A Ravindra on Wednesday.
Vinaya Hegde speaking on the occasion
He was speaking after receiving the report from the Coastal Task Force, under the auspices of the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry. For any city like Mangalore with an estimated population of 5 lac, provision of good roads could ensure safer traffic and transport. There was a dire necessity to engage experts' advice in the matter, he further said.
Ravindra expressed regret that the previous government had not accepted the report of the Coastal Task Force and assured that the one he accepted here would not go in vain.
Nitte Vinaya Hegde, who had served as the head of the task force, said the body, formed in 1992, over the following two years, had dedicatedly prepared a growth plan for the two coastal district for the coming 30 years. He rued that the government had not responded positively to the report.
KCCI president John Prasad Menezes welcomed the gathering and spoke on the requiremnts of the city. Secretaries Srinivas Prabhu, and Shekhar Poojary, vice president Kumble Narasimha Prabhu and treasurer Ahmed Bawa were present on the occasion.