Police efforts in helping aspirants pay marginal dividends
The Hindu
12 of the 206 candidates trained in city selected for State force
The training given by the Mangaluru and Dakshina Kannada police to get more people from the coastal region, more so from Dakshina Kannada, into the police force, has paid some dividends with 12 of the 206 such candidates getting selected for posts of police sub-inspector and police constables, recently.
Of the 12 candidates selected, nine are from Dakshina Kannada, two from Uttara Kannada and one is from Udupi district.
Of the nine candidates from Dakshina Kannada, eight have been selected as police constables and one as police sub-inspector. The remaining three candidates, from Udupi and Uttara Kannada, have been selected as constables.
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.