Daijiworld Media Network - Moodbidri (SP)

Moodbidri, Mar 18: The final notification about creation of new taluk as announced by the government in 2017 budget in the state's gazette has been published. With this, Moodbidri has become taluk with effect from January 11, 2018.

Moodbidri had been given the taluk status during the period 1910-12. After demands and efforts lasting several decades, it has won this status once again.

The draft notification dated December 1, 2017 about the process of creation of new taluk had been published in the December 7 gazette last year. Now, this has come into being as a new taluk with the inclusion of all the 28 villages falling within the local revenue division.

Moodbidri, which had formed part of Karkala taluk, had been included in Dakshina Kannada district when separate Udupi district was created in 1997. Although the Jagadish Shettar govenment had announced creation of this taluk in Februrary 8 budge in 2013, the Congress government which came into office had deleted this proposal. Now, when the state is about to face another assembly election, this has emerged as a new taluk officially.