more-inAfter a meeting to resolve the controversy over renaming Light House Hill Road failed to find an amicable solution, the district administration on Friday constituted a four-member committee to examine the issue. No time-frame was given to the committee that would comprise Mangalore University Registrar and Head of the Department, History; Additional Deputy Commissioner and Mangaluru City Corporation Commissioner, by Deputy Commissioner K.G. The Deputy Commissioner took the decision after district in-charge Minister B. Ramanath Rai, who chaired the meeting, passed on the responsibility to him. Since 1976College Registrar A M. Narahari said that the corporation should have carefully examined the issue before recommending renaming of the road. He said that the road was renamed St. Aloysius College Road in 1976 by the then Mangalore Municipal Council when Late Blasius M. D’Souza was the president.

Source: The Hindu August 04, 2017 19:40 UTC