Make Brahmavar taluk headquarters

Date:10/06/2009URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/06/10/stories/2009061057900300.htmBackKarnataka-Udupi‘Make Brahmavar taluk headquarters’Staff CorrespondentUdupi: The Janajagriti Vedike Okkoota of Bennekudru-Barkur on Monday threatened to launch an agitation if Brahmavar was not madea taluk headquarters.Ullas Shetty, president of the okkoota, told presspersons here that the demand for making Brahmavar a taluk headquarters was being raised for the last three decades.But successive governments had ignored it, he said.Home Minister V.S. Acharya, who was in-charge of Udupi district, had told the people in August 2008 that he had recommended to be made a taluk headquarters, he said.© Copyright 2000 - 2009 The Hindu