Labhu Ram transferred; Abhishek Goyal is New SP of Dakshina Kannada

January 1, 2012

Mangalore, January 1: In a major reshuffle in police department, Karnataka government on Sunday transferred several IPS officers including Labhu Ram, the Superintendent of Police of Dakshina Kannada.

Mr Ram, a 2004 batch IPS officer, has been posted as the SP of Davanagere district. He had taken charge as the SP of DK in March 2011 following the transfer of A Subrahmanyeshwara Rao.

Abhishek Goyal is expected to replace Mr Ram in Dakshina Kannada.

The development comes in the backdrop of Sangh Parivar's demand to transfer him following the alleged 'police atrocity' on Hindutwa activists, who had pelted stones at police station in Sullia recently.

It can be mentioned here that in the aftermath of attack on police station, two cops had been suspended. The action against the cops was in the wake of the report by the State Additional Director General of Police Bipin Gopalkrishna who had probed the case including the stoning of the station and the reported police atrocities on the Hindutwa activists.

Promotions and transfers

Several other senor police officers have also been transferred and promoted in a single day.

Former IGP (Western Range) Alok Mohan has been promoted and appointed as ADGP, Recruitment, Training.

Alok Kumar has been promoted as IGP and continued as Commander of Anti-Naxal Force, Udupi.

Director General and Inspector General of Police Shankar M Bidari has been given the additional charge of Chairman of KSPHC.

Director General of Police Rupak Kumar Dutta, who was the Chairman and Managing Director of Karnataka Police Housing Corporation (KSPHC), has been posted as the DGP, Criminal Investigation Department, Special Units and Economic Offences.

Additional DGP and Executive Director of KSPHC M N Reddy has been appointed as the Managing Director of the Corporation.

B E Umapathy, ADGP, Research and Restructuring, Dharwad has been promoted as DGP.

Raghavendra H. Auradkar has been promoted as ADGP of Home Department.

N S Megharik has been promoted as ADGP, CID. R P Sharma has been promoted as ADGP and continues to head the Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force.

Pranab Mohanty and B Dayananda, have been promoted as IGPs and would continue as Joint Commissioners of Police, Crime, Bangalore.

H S Venkatesh has been transferred and posted as SP of Internal Security Division, Bangalore. Ishwarachandra Vidyasagar has been transferred and posted as SP of Bagalkot district.

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Why Mangaluru Could Become India’s Next Offshore Wind Energy Hub

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February 3,2026

Dakshina Kannada MP Capt Brijesh Chowta has urged the Centre to give high priority to offshore wind energy generation along the Mangaluru coast, citing its strategic importance to India’s green energy and port-led development goals.

Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha under Rule 377, Chowta said studies by the National Institute of Oceanography have identified the Mangaluru coastline as part of India’s promising offshore wind ‘Zone-2’, covering nearly 6,490 sq km. He noted that the region’s relatively low exposure to cyclones and earthquakes makes it suitable for long-term offshore wind projects and called for its development as a dedicated offshore wind energy zone.

Highlighting the role of New Mangalore Port, Chowta said its modern infrastructure, multiple berths and heavy cargo-handling capacity position it well as a logistics hub for transporting and assembling large wind energy equipment.

He also pointed to the presence of major industrial units such as MRPL, OMPL, UPCL and the Mangaluru SEZ, which could serve as direct buyers of green power through power purchase agreements, improving project viability and speeding up execution.

With Karnataka’s peak power demand crossing 18,000 MW in early 2025, Chowta stressed the need to diversify renewable energy sources. He added that offshore wind projects in the Arabian Sea are strategically safer compared to the cyclone-prone Bay of Bengal.

Calling the project vital to India’s target of 500 GW of renewable energy by 2030, Chowta urged the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy to initiate resource assessments, pilot projects and stakeholder consultations at the earliest.

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