From a Kumta family, Arun was born in Mumbai nearly 60 years ago. His graduation is B.Sc in Kumta. Doing carving from school days developed the special interest for fiberglass sculptures and ended up establishing a Handicraft Manufacturing Company in Belgaum, lately moved to Kumta. Inborn socially inclined person he keeps trying to foster good…
• The ocean is in a state of emergency: the problem of marine litter is appalling, as the environmental impact of marine waste, especially plastics, has exceeded acceptable limits for possible regeneration of the oceans. • In parallel with the criminal actions that have made the sea into a global dump, there is a serious…
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Message from a Singaporean Tourist to Local and District authorities, 2019 De : KWAN RONG Soh <sohkwanrong@gmail.com> Date: mer. 13 mars 2019 à 11:04 Subject: Waste Management Problem in Gokarna To: <ddswo.karwar@gmail.com>, <adtourismkarwar@gmail.com>, <directortourismkarnataka@gmail.com> Cc: <dckarwar@gmail.com>, <ceo_zp_kwr@nic.in>, <acokumta@gmail.com> Addressed to: Tourism Department, Government of Karnataka Subject: Waste Management Problem in Gokarna I am a visitor…
Ramatirtha is one of the many places in Gokarna where pilgrims and devotees come for bathing. It is also one of the many places where they throw their cloths, and other varied items on the ground or on the ocean. To prevent such disposal of waste Khushi Parisara has provided bins for cloths for general waste …
Potentially, Gokarna is the wealthiest village of the whole District, be its multiple resources properly managed. Khushi Parisara, extremely concerned with the tourism growth at Gokarna, with its extensive use & throw practices, the massive CRZ encroaching, the huge tourists/visitors OD, the large garbage incineration, the death and heavy pollution of water bodies, etc, got prepared to…
Khushi Parisara is suggesting the Police Corps to go beyond local people’s perception that Police is mainly concerned with 2 offences [smoking and helmet], the only ones deserving boards and agents to implement them. And we are requesting to take some action on general waste related offenses (burning, throwing and dumping), also on plastics, debris,…
Seeta Hegde Was born in France 40 years ago where she studied and worked in the field of Art History and Tourism Management. She had the great opportunity to travel to many countries and learn a lot about different cultures and traditions. She arrived in India in 2006 and got married few years later. Since…
Born in Kumta 50 years earlier, Anushree started her school in Yellapur, then, due to her father profissional assignments, she enrolled in Sirsi and Kumta, finally back to Sirsi where she completed her PUC in Science, English and Kannada Shorthand and Typewriting . She worked as Stenographer within the frame of Lokayukta. After marriage, in…
The Bus Stand, by its huge visibility, has to be a place teaching people the best good practices concerning cleanliness and waste in order to model a clean behaviour. Actually, bus stations of NWKRTC, in remarkable contrast with surrounding train stations, are generally dirty with trash and spits spread all around.Toilets are dirty and without the proper facilities.There are…
Mummery of swachhata at Kumta Court For long time that the premisses of the court in Kumta were exhibiting a filthy show to the sight of all of us, frequenting it or just passing by. the windows being used then as dustbins the waste being incinerated on the spot and the toilets showing the most…
Simple story … they arrived in Gokarna at the very beginning of the tourist the season, coming from France. They were having their holidays with the family, moving around, observing, noting the dreadful condition of the seashore. Asking and talking and discussing they started collecting all the plastic bottles they were finding on their way… Removing…
Politics of Nature for Kumta Taluka Today’s great changes, whether ecological, democratic or digital, require a profound transformation of our society and lead to different power relationships. More and more of us are convinced that citizen engagement is the cornerstone of global change. But what are we talking about when we talk about citizen engagement?…
The waste management practices of Tourism Service Providers (TSP) on the seashore remain, year after year, perfectly ecocidal. Their preferred system is the open burning of all waste, creating a long hours persistent smoke on their area, either at early morning or late evening. The alternate system is the burying of all waste on the shoreline,…