Holiday for schools, colleges in DK, Udupi today

Dakshina Kannada & Udupi districts: All anganawadis, schools, pre-univ. & degree colleges closed Tues. due to red alert. Postgraduate, engineering, diploma & ITI colleges also closed. Mangalore Univ. postponed even-semester exams. Netravathi & AMR vented dams at danger level. 19 houses damaged, 224 electric poles of MESCOM. Link roads & bridges submerged. Traffic disrupted on Subrahmanya-Panja-Kaniyoor Road. Bathing ghat at Kukke Subrahmanya submerged.

All anganawadis, schools, pre-university and degree colleges in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts will remain closed on Tuesday, in view of the red alert declared by the India Meteorological Department.

Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner M. P. Mullai Muhilan and Udupi Deputy Commissioner K. Vidyakumari announced this on Monday.

Ms. Vidyakumari said that the holiday in Udupi also applies to postgraduate, engineering, diploma and ITI colleges. She said that people and tourists visiting the wate falls and beaches and video recording and photography at these spots have been banned in view of safety of visitors. All rivers, rivulets and streams in the district are in spate.

Mangalore University has postponed its even-semester undergraduate examinations scheduled to be held on Tuesday in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kodagu districts. The date of the rescheduled examinations will be announced later, the university said.

Water level of the Netravathi at Bantwal stood at 8 mts (mean sea level) on Monday against the danger level of 9 mts. The level at Uppinangady on the same river was at 29.4 mts against the danger level of 31.5 m, according to Dakshina Kannada District Disaster Management Authority.

All gates of Thumbe vented dam, across the Netravathi, are open and the water level at the dam was at 6.5 mts high against the maximum level of 7 mts. Water level at AMR vented dam across the same river was at the maximum level of 18.90 mts.

Dakshina Kannada recorded 107.6 mm rainfall in 24 hours ending at 8.30 a.m. on Monday. Kadaba taluk recorded the highest 163.4 mm rainfall during the period followed by 105.2 mm in Belthangady, 104 mm in Moodbidri, 103.9 in Sullia, 103.7 mm in Bantwal, 78.7 in Puttur and 70.7 mm in Mangaluru taluk.