The increasing number of cases without any travel history could be an indication that community transmission has begun.
Speaking to the Sakal, Dr.Sashikant Muniyal District health officer has been quoted “ For the past 8-10 days there has been Community spread in the district. The coming 4 weeks are crucial and one must abide by the rules in place to stop the spread.”
A five-year-old girl from Hindlaga has also tested positive with no travel history and contacts under tracing.
Community transmission is the stage when the source of the infection cannot be traced and a large number of people are affected.
The Karnataka government on Tuesday told a central team that there is no community transmission of the coronavirus in the state, PTI reported.
Karnataka minister JC Madhuswamy had on Monday expressed fears about community transmission in the state, saying the “situation is going out of hand”, ANI reported.
“There is no community spread so far, I am making it very clear,” Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu told reporters following the meeting. “We are still in between the second [local transmission] and the third stage [community spread], we haven’t reached the third stage yet.”
The government’s claim that there was no community spread of Covid-19 comes at a time when the number of positive cases has skyrocketed in the state, especially in Bengaluru.
People should strictly follow precautions and maintain social distancing to stop the spread.
We are in the middle of a health epidemic like the world has not seen in the last hundred years… exactly.
The previous time when the entire world was hit by a virus was when it started at Fort Riley in Kansas in USA in 1918, and, by 1920, it had consumed over 17 million (1.7 crore) lives. There was no vaccine available then for that virus, which was also believed to be part of the Corona family of viruses.
There is no vaccine available now for the Covid-19 virus that has already taken lakhs of lives.
India has promised the world that our country will produce a vaccine against Covid-19 and that it will produce this vaccine at a low cost and will share this vaccine with the whole world equally.
Vaccines are produced through a very long process of research and experimentation at vaccine institutes.
There are two pre-requisites for vaccine institutes:
a) The institute must be located in a place with an equable climate for all year round testing. That is why the British located vaccine institutes in places like Bareilly, Kasauli and Belagavi.
b) The vaccine institute must be located in a vast green, self-contained space far away from human inhabitation, so that even if an accidental escape of a virus or a microbe or a bacterium takes place, it will not infect human beings.
In 1905, the Chief Health and Sanitation Inspector for Belagavi, Mr. T.W.H. Hutchinson, cordoned off over 200 acres of land, in which he developed one of India’s finest vaccine institutes.
Vaccine Depot. Photo Credits: Manish Khapare
This Belgaum Vaccine Institute was devoted to the development of vaccines for several tropical diseases that were killing people in our country at that time.
The worst disease that killed lakhs of children every year and could be regarded as the worst enemy that India ever faced was … smallpox (regarded as the curse of the ‘Devi’).
When the W.H.O. decided to galvanize the whole world to banish this terrible disease from the face of this earth, India entrusted the lead in vaccine development to Belagavi’s Vaccine Institute.
For several years, a very fine doctor, Dr. Prasanna Kumar, worked the Institute almost 24 hours a day to produce a record 47 million doses of smallpox vaccine every year.
This was heroic work from the health workers and the technicians in Belagavi’s Vaccine Institute.
Finally, in 1977, this dreadful disease was forever banished from the world and millions of children have been saved… thanks to heroes of the Belagavi Vaccine Institute.
So the Vaccine Depot of Belagavi is therefore the ‘karma Bhoomi’ of the great smallpox virus warriors, like Dr. Prasanna Kumar and his scientists, technicians and workers.
Photo: Hemant Bhat
After 1977, when the smallpox vaccine was no longer needed, Belagavi’s vaccine institute was pressed into service to make the anti-rabies vaccine.
Finally, the Karnataka State Government, wisely anticipating that it might well be needed in the future, to prepare vaccine once again, decided to protect it with a Government Order, AKUKA 84 CGM, which protects this entire space as a permanent Botanical Garden and Heritage Park.
A 3.5-kilometer long compound wall was built at great expense by the State Government and, India’s topmost architecture institute, ‘The School for Planning and Architecture’ (New Delhi), was contracted to prepare a plan to preserve the essence of this lung space, for the benefit of the health of the citizens of Belagavi, much like Cubbon Park of Bengaluru or the Ridge of Delhi.
In preparation of the Smart City Plan, thousands of stakeholders voted to retain this space as a ‘heritage precinct’, as a tribute to the battles that were fought over here against terrible diseases that ravaged our country. This was put into the area-based development plan (ABD) for Belagavi and this unique feature was highly appreciated by all in New Delhi.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “The value of water is only appreciated when the well has dried up”. Similarly, the value of green spaces will only be appreciated when we have destroyed each and every green space that we have in our cities, and built cement concrete buildings on them, in the name of “development”.
But due to the increasing numbers of COVID cases, the entry to the falls has been banned for an indefinite period and the board has also been put up informing the same.
Karnataka state government on Friday decided to hold examinations only for the final semester students of undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) in various universities of Karnataka and promote other semester students to the next level without holding any examination.
Deputy Chief Minister Dr CN Ashwath Narayan declared that the examination for final semester UG and PG students will be conducted as per the guidelines issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC) by the end of September 2020.
All students who are either at the beginning or middle semester of their UG and PG courses will be promoted to next semester without any examination.
On Friday two deaths due to COVID 19 were reported one each from Athani and Hukkeri.
With these deaths, the total deaths by COVID 19 have risen to 9 in Belagavi district.
A 58yr old woman from Hukkeri who was admitted to the hospital on 8-7-2020
and her swab was taken on 8-7-20 at 3:00 PM.
She was diagnosed with cardiorespiratory failure secondary to acute exacerbation of COPD and Covid19.
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In the second case, a 67 yr old woman a resident of Athani was admitted to the hospital on 08/07/2020 at 4:18 AM and she passed away on 09/07/2020 at 3:00 PM.
She was suffering from breathlessness for 5 days and the cause of death was cardiorespiratory arrest secondary to Covid-19.
Railway department’s first priority is to complete the land acquisition process for the Kudachi-Bagalkot railway line and hand over the land to the railway department, said MoSR Suresh Angadi.
He was speaking after presiding over a meeting of district officials and senior officials of the Railway Department and others in the Belagavi -Bagalkot district on Saturday (July 11).
The state government will have to pay 50 percent of the cost of the entire land and the project, which will be implemented as soon as local legislators and district officials are able to complete the project, said Suresh Angadi.
The remaining 114 acres of land acquisition process should be started immediately, he said.
The officials of the Railway Department and the District Officers were instructed to complete the process within a period of fifteen days, expediting the process of acquisition of the 41 acre land related to the Forest Department.
A new railway branch line of 142 km is being constructed from Bagalkot to Kudachi via Kajjidoni (Khajjidoni) which was sanctioned in the year 2010-2011 with an anticipated cost of 986.30 cr on 50:50 cost sharing basis and land free of cost by Government of Karnataka.
The section between Bagalkot and Kajjidoni has been completed and CRS inspection between Bagalkot-Khajdoni (30 km) was done on 14.06.2017. Further work can be taken up on acquisition of land by State Government.
Land acquisition in Bagalkot and Belagavi district.
• This project will be executed in 3 Phases.
• Total land required to be acquired for this project is 2487 A-16 G-06 An.
• So far 1301 A-26 G-06 An land has been acquired by GoK.
• Total land handed over to railway by GoK is 1226 A-29 G-11 An.
• Balance land to be acquired by GoK 1185 A-30 G-00 An.
• Total land required to be acquired for this phase
• So far land acquired by GoK
• Balance land to be acquired by GoK
Forest Land
1349 A-38 G-14 An 454 A-39 G-02 An 894 A-39 G-12 An
• Total land required to be acquired for this phase 41 A-23 G-05 An • Present status: Proposal is under Stage-1 approval and with Nodal office since 01.06.2020.
Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa will hold discussions with the deputy commissioners and superintendents of police concerned via video conferencing on Monday morning at 11 am after which he would finalize if it’s necessary to extend the lockdown to other districts in the state which also includes Belagavi.
Already Gokak and other taluka have announced an lockdown.
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Lockdown would be imposed in Bengaluru Urban and Rural which would be for a week-long from Tuesday evening, another 12 districts too are on the ‘lockdown list’.
They include Kalaburagi, Mysuru, Mangaluru, Udupi, Belagavi, Bidar, Ballari, Dharwad, Raichur, Gadag and Davanagere.
These districts have each reported at least 300 Covid cases.
Belagavi has 464 positive cases with 94 active and 12 deaths.
A final decision is likely to be formally announced by the evening whether the lockdown is extended to other districts or it stays only for the state capital.
From the past 2 months or more each one is more interested in knowing how many COVID-19 positives have been reported from his town, city, state.
We have been doing roughly a good job presenting the official data in front of you as and when the same is published.
But from the past couple of days, there have been discrepancies seen in the news published by the Local dailies with respect to the number of Positives.
Like for instance on Sunday only 3 deaths were reported in the Local Bulletin and the state bulletin.
But the local dailies published the figure as 31 which included the two deaths. Now the issue now is that they got a figure of 31 and others just published the 3 death numbers.
What it looks like is the data is not sent on time and hence the same is not published in the bulletin.
If this is the case why is the data leaked to a few others? Earlier as well there have been instances that the local bulletin and the state bulletin figures did not match on a day.
What is also happening is due to this unwarranted delay today we would get a number close to 30 or even more if results are received today.
As per the list published new positives are reported from Shiv Basav Nagar, Shivaji Nagar, Jakkeri Honda, Adarsh Colony, Indira Colony, Mahantesh Nagar, Ujwal Nagar, Azam Nagar, Kangral Galli, Hanuman Nagar, Angol.
11-12 are from the city and others from places like Athani etc.
We will stay put with the official data published, and as soon as it’s published we will share it.
Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa held discussions with the deputy commissioners and superintendents of police concerned via video conferencing on Monday morning at 11 am where Deputy Commissioner MG Hiremath has told CM that Lock down is not necessary for Belagavi.
Lockdown would be imposed in Bengaluru Urban and Rural which would be for a week-long from Tuesday evening, another 12 districts too are on the ‘lockdown list’.
lockdown will be clamped in Gokak, Mudalagi taluk in Belagavi for eight days, beginning from Monday night. The decision was taken during the Covid task force meeting.
The history of Electricity in Belagavi takes us back to the year 1933, when Amalgamated Electricity Company Ltd was incorporated at Mumbai was formed to generate and distribute electricity in the Municipal areas of Ajmer, Belgaum(now Belagavi), Malegaon and other adjoining areas. The company started its Generation and distribution of electricity in the year 1933 under the license of Shri D.B. Ankale with only two Generators at its Generating station opposite to the Belagavi Railway Station, the present HESCOM office premises. The number of generators were increased from 2 to 9 with a total capacity of 3000 KVA in 1966. The electricity was distributed in the area covering city, Camp, Tilakwadi and Vadagoan.
In the year 1966 (05/03/1966) the 110KV Nehrunagar Station was commissioned which was fed from 220KV SRS Hubli through 110KV Single Circuit Line. With an Installed capacity of 20MVA. Consequent to the commissioning of 110KV Nehrunagar Station the generators were dismantled and the electricity supplied from 110KV Nehrunagar Station was distributed to the consumers. In the year 1969 the 220KV Receiving station Belgaum was commissioned as switching station with main objective to extend bulk power supply to M/s.Indal,220KV EHT Consumer.
Meanwhile, on 18.12.1974, pursuant to the Karnataka Electricity Undertaking (Acquisition) Act, 1974, the Amalgamated Electricity Company Ltd., was taken over by the Karnataka Electricity Board (formed in 1957) whereby all the assets and liabilities of the Amalgamated Electricity Company Ltd. vested with the Karnataka Electricity Board.
The bill preserved by Umesh Kakkeri from 1937
During 1979 220KV Belgaum-Kolhapur inter-state line was constructed from 220KV Belgaum station. Subsequently from 1982 to 1984, 2 Nos of 50MVA 220KV/110KV Power Transformers are installed and 3 Nos of 110KV feeder bays were constructed to feed power supply to 110KV Belgaum city,110KV Ghataprabha & 110KV Hukkeri. During 1992 the station Transformer capacity was augmented by providing an additional 100MVA Power Transformer. Again, during 1998 station capacity was increased by replacing 50MVA Power Transformer No-2 by new 100MVA Power Transformer increasing the station capacity to 250 MVA. KPTCL was formed on 1-8-1999 by carving out the Transmission and Distribution functions of the erstwhile Karnataka Electricity Board.
In the year 2001 TATA power started its 80MW Diesel Generating plant near Kanabargi feeding to 220KV Station Belgaum through 110KV Double Circuit.
Government vide order No. 69 BSR 2001 Bangalore, dated 15/02/2002 has unbundled KPTCL and formed four distribution companies. Consequent to this the function of distribution of power has been totally separated from KPTCL. KPTCL is now vested with the responsibility of transmitting power all over the State and construction and maintenance of Stations and lines of 66KV and above.
The four newly formed independent distribution companies, which were registered on 30/04/2002, are Bangalore Electricity Supply Company, Mangalore Electricity Supply Company, Hubli Electricity Supply Company and Gulbarga Electricity Supply Company. They have started functioning w.e.f.. 01/06/2002. The Hubli Electricity Supply Company company was incharge of the distribution of power in Belgaum.
In the year 2003, the 50MVA Power transformer failed which reduced the capacity of the 220KV Belgaum Station to 200MVA .
During 2005 4 Nos of 110KV line bays constructed to reduce overloading of 110KV Ghataprabha, Nehru-nagar lines & for proper evacuation 80MW TATA Power generation. During the year 1998 total 110KV feeder peak load on 220KV Station was about 162MW and Consequent to the commissioning of New 220KV Station at Chikodi(1998) 55MW load of Chikodi and Hukkeri shifted on 220KV Station Chikodi and with the gradual growth of load, the load on 220KV Station Belgaum again reached 160MW during the year 2010. In the year 2010 220KV Ghataprabha Station commissioned and around 45MW of load shifted on New 220Kv Ghataprabha Station load on Belgaum 220KV Station got reduced to a peak demand of 120MW. As per the records, there is a considerable increase in load growth of 10MW to 12MW per year. Till the end of Aug-2015, it has reached around 150MW.
Lockdown only in Athani, Gokak, Mudalgi, Nippani, Chikkodi
Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa held discussions with the deputy commissioners and superintendents of police concerned via video conferencing on Monday morning at 11 am where Deputy Commissioner MG Hiremath has told CM that Lock down is not necessary for Belagavi.
Lockdown would be imposed in Bengaluru Urban and Rural which would be for a week-long from Tuesday evening, another 12 districts too are on the ‘lockdown list’.
lockdown will be clamped in Gokak, Mudalagi taluk in Belagavi for eight days, beginning from Monday night. The decision was taken during the Covid task force meeting.
