Mangaluru corporation to vie for smart city tag
Mangalore can also get Rs. 100 crores from AMRUT project. Smart City project fund will be Rs. 480 crores from the center for a duration of 5 years and the state government contribution of an equal amount and PPP investments.
A couple of years back I was reading an article on pollution in a news paper. There the author had suggested we can reduce the air pollution by bringing down the truck movements by growing vegetables and other food grains within or nearer to city.
And Mangalore MP also has a plan to surround Mangalore with an agriculture zone.
Nalin Kumar Kateel moots SAZ for district
It would be better if this green zone is extended to Kundapur, Karkal, Kasargod districts. The figure here shows main urban area in red around NH66 and NH75.
If Pashchima Vahini project is implemented then I feel SAZ has potential to grow vegetable supply for the undivided south canara districts even if Mangalore city population grows by another 15-20 lakhs assuming farmers will not opt for commercial corps exclusively.
Mangalore is a port city hence we can not restrict truck movements totally but can reduce it in this way.