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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Aug 27: The Taluk Re-organization Committee headed by president M B Prakash and members Chiranjeevi Singh and Shivanand with retired IAS officer Janardan Rao as its convener, visited Nelyadi on Tuesday August 26. Prakash later informed that the committee will submit its report to the state government by the end of December this year.

The committee held consultations with the people's representatives. Nelyadi Taluk Formation Action Committee submitted its memorandum. Committee honorary president Abraham Verghese, zilla panchayat member from Dharmasthala Babu Mogera Ernody, BJP taluk committee president P Kushalappa Gowda etc., spoke on the occasion.

The committee also received memorandums at the consultative meeting organized at the gram panchayat office, Kadaba. Kadaba Taluk Action Committee, supported by various individuals, presented their case before the committee, with a request to make Kadaba as the taluk headquarters. Committee president C Philip, convener Krishna Shetty and several others supported the proposal to carve out Kadaba taluk.

At a meeting held at Mulky and attended by ex-MLA Somappa Suvarna, M B Noor Ahmed, K Karunakar Shetty etc., Mulky Taluk Formation Committee has decided to plead with the Taluk Re-organisation Committee during its visit here on Wednesday August 27, to make Mulky as the taluk.

A special meeting organized under the presidentship of Moodbidri municipal president Bhoja Kotian at Moodbidri on Tuesday afternoon, also unanimously decided to request the Taluk Re-organization committee to create Moodbidri taluk by pooling villages from Moobidri revenue division and some villages from Venur sub-division, Gurpur revenue division. MLA Abhaychandra Jain, municipal vice-president Bhoja Kotian etc., were present.