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Overloaded iron ore lorries will be blocked at Shiroor: MLA

Staff Correspondent

Udupi: MLA and president of Udupi district unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) K. Raghupati Bhat said on Saturday that a non-partisan people's movement would be launched on September 1 to block the entry of overloaded iron ore lorries at Shiroor.

Addressing presspersons, Mr. Bhat said that though he had given a deadline of August 31 to the Iron Ore Lorry Owners Association and the Iron Ore Exporters Association to re-install the weighbridge at Shiroor, there had been no response from them. It was important to save the bridges on National Highway 17, which had become weak owing to the movement of overloaded lorries.

He had also written a letter to the Deputy Commissioner on the issue. Other parties and organisations too could join in this movement. He would not use the party flag for the movement, Mr. Bhat said.

Udupi-Manipal Road

Mr. Bhat said some people and organisations were unnecessarily creating confusion in the minds of the people regarding the widening of the Bannanje-Kadiyali stretch on Udupi-Manipal Road.

The people who would lose their land would get a compensation of Rs. 1 lakh for every cent of land. But some persons and organisations were indulging in false propaganda that the compensation would be just Rs. 23,000 for one cent of land.

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