Bengaluru: After facing some serious questions over removal of illegal hoardings/flexes in the city, the BBMP on Wednesday informed the court it has so far removed as many as 5,000 hoardings, banners, bunting and flex boards by Wednesday afternoon.
It further assured the court that action was being taken to remove rest of the unauthorised ones within its jurisdiction.
While asking BBMP to submit about its further course of action, including prevention of such unauthorised activities in future, the court observed that the city needs to be brought back to its radiant phase.
The court also observed that palike should take tough measures to prevent installation of such unauthorised flexes and banners.
The BBMP Commissioner was also present at the hearing. The court adjourned the hearing to August 8.
Varsity Fee
The High Court on Wednesday, in an interim order, allowed deemed to be universities offering various professional courses along with other courses to collect 75% of the fee fixed by them. It will be subject to the final outcome of the writ petitions filed them.
Several of them have approached the court challenging the order passed by the Fee Regulatory Committee on June 27 fixing fees to various courses offered by them, along with directions restraining them not to hike fee in academic year 2018-19 and to follow the fee structure of previous academic year.
According to them, they have the right to fix their own fee structure as it invests into infrastructure, providing advanced facilities along with salaries to teaching/non teaching staff, expansion plans and so on. Also, they stated that the committee has no jurisdiction to determine fee structure in deemed varsities.
They have sought for directions declaring that Section 2(g), 2(p),2(q), 2(u), Section 6 and sub sections and Section 7 of the Karnataka Professional Educational institution (Regulations of admission and Determination of Fee) Act, 2006 are not applicable to them.
KC valley water
The high court on Wednesday extended its interim ordered restraining State Government from resuming the pumping of treated water to minor irrigation tanks in Kolar and Chikkaballapur districts from the KC Valley project until next date of hearing.
The court passed the order after State sought ten days time while submitted that it is awaiting the expert's report. A resident of Chikkaballapur, R Anajaneya Reddy, has approached HC filing PIL by questioning the implementation of Koramangala and Challaghatta (KC) Valley project.
He has alleged in his petition that it is an unscientific project, and that the treated water contained harmful chemicals. The case has been adjourned to August 16.
