Moily visits families of drowned children

January 13, 2012

Belthangady, January 13: M Veerappa Moily, Union Minister for Corporate Affairs on Thursday visited the bereaved families whose children drowned in a rivulet at Sudemogaru on January 9.

Mr Moily met the parents and relatives of the school children and expressed grief over the tragedy.

He said that he would write letter to Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda asking to take appropriate steps to release compensation to the saddened families.

Abhaychandra Jain, Block congresses President Harish Kumar, Town Panchayath President Muguli Narayana Rao were present.

On January 9, four children Abubakkar Hafeez (11), son of Kabeer and Jamila, Javed Hassan (12), and Jamshed (7), children of Haroon Rashid and Rasheeda, and Sayyed Taseen's son Sayyed Nasir (12) had drowned in Nethravathi river. While Hafeez and Jamshed were students of St Mary's English Medium School at Laila, Javeed was student of St Theresa Kannada Medium School and Nasir, student of Government Model Higher Primary School.

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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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