With rising temperatures and increasing incidents of forest fires, the forest staff are busy dousing several forest fires in the last 10 days. A majority of them are learnt to be creeping fires.
It is learnt the forest staff, along with locals, were successful in bringing forest fires reported at Ninnikallu, Neriya, and Charmadi in Belthangady taluk under control.
The zilla panchayat inBelagavihas topped in the state in creating the highest number of man days under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural EMPLOYMENT Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
This is the third consecutive year that theBelagavi ZPhas managed to pull this off.
There are 500 gram panchayats in the districts and the MGNREG scheme has been implemented effectively at all panchayats. Till January 12, 2023, 7.85 lakh new job cards have been distributed and Rs 305.23 crore in wages distributed.
The Karnataka government recently approved the construction of a plastic park in Ganjimutt, Managaluru.
Highlights:
To carry out the project, the KIADB will establish a specific purpose vehicle under its control. KIADB is also a key promoter.
The park will cost Rs 62.77 crores to build. It will be constructed on property owned by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB).Hundreds of jobs will be created for local kids as a result of the park.
In the park, a polypropylene unit will be placed up. This plant will supply raw ingredients to the park’s polymer and plastics businesses.
Thermoplastic polymer polypropylene is a thermoplastic polymer. It is mostly utilized in the manufacture of plastic packaging.
In addition, the park will aid in the reduction of transportation costs. This is due to the fact that the park will be Home to 32 businesses.
Entrepreneurs from other districts are included as well. The park will have an administrative building, an export building, and a warehouse facility, among other things.
Funds And Concerns
The federal government will contribute 50 percent of the total anticipated cost of 62.77 crores of rupees, or 31.38 crores. The KIADB will be responsible for the remaining 50%.
The Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, which is part of the Central Government, has established project implementation criteria.
If the work is not done within three months, the funds will be redistributed to other eligible projects.
Plastic Park Scheme
Industrial zones are plastic parks. They play an important part in the expansion of machinery suppliers as well as plastic manufacturing, recycling, and processing businesses.
So far, plastic parks have been established at Tamont village in Madhya Pradesh, Billaua village in Gwalior, Odisha, Pradeep village near Jagatsinghpur, Assam, Devipur in Jharkhand, and Voyallur in Nadu’s Thiruvallur district.
India accounts for under 1% of global plastic exports. India has a major plastics sector. It is, however, severely fractured. The plastic parks will aid in the Industry‘s consolidation.
In a bid to draw more children to state-run schools, theKarnatakagovernment is planning to set up a model school in every gram panchayat by merging local schools, where number of new admissions is mostly in single digit currently.
TEACHING and non teaching staff in such low-enrolment schools too will be absorbed into the proposed model schools.
The proposal comes in the wake of calls to create a better academic Environment in government schools.
Statewide data captured by the department of public instruction (DPI) revealed that as many as 3,179 lower primary schools and 219 higher primary schools run by the department have less than 10 students this academic year.
In total, 10,588 schools run by the DPI have up to just 20 students each. The finding has raised a serious question whether these institutions should be continued or merged with the nearest schools.
Schools in the same panchayats where student strength is abysmally low will be merged into one single institution. Funds will be pooled for the new school to add facilities, and to delegate more teachers.
There are calls for a caste census (socioeconomic survey) at the national level, with Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar discussing the issue with PM Narendra Modi. Karnataka conducted such an exercise six years ago with the aim of ensuring that reservation benefits for castes were proportionate to their size. It cost Rs 168 crore, but the report is gathering dust as the findings have not been made public yet.
The commission and the , it seems, are not eager to get things in motion. The commission has maintained silence over the issue, whereas the government claims that the report is still with the commission and its role will come into play only after the document is submitted.
The Education department has intensified its survey of out-of-school children and those hwo were never enrolled across the state.
The department has found that 64,003 children were out of school for the 202223 academic year.
All steps will be taken regarding activities to be carried out in the district, taluk cluster, school, and residential areas for children to get enrolled.
When a survey was conducted in the Nelamangala taluk of Bengaluru rural district, officials found a huge discrepancy between the number and details of children in the records with schools and the information on the departmental website SATS.
According to the SATS statistics, more children were found to be out of school.
Karnataka Home minister Araga Jnanendra tabled theanti-conversion billin the state legislative assembly.
TheKarnataka assemblyspeaker announced that he has allowed the government to introduce the anti-conversion bill as per procedure, and it will be taken up for discussion on December 22.
The Bill will provide for the protection of the right to freedom of religion and of unlawful conversion from one religion to another by misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means. It proposes imprisonment up to 10 years for forced religious conversion.
Notwithstanding the flak it gets on the cleanliness front, Bengaluru bagged a top Swachh City Award as the Centre announced its SwachhSurvekshan-2021 surveyresults.
The city is ranked first as theFastest MoverMega City, in the 40 lakh plus Population category.
The tech capital secured 28th spot in cleanliness among 48 with more than 1 crore population. In 2020, Bengalurus ranking had slipped to 214, from 194 it held the preceding year. The tighter population-wise category wasnt introduced then.
The award and improvement in overall ranking comes as a shot in the arm for Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike. BBMP chief commissioner Gaurav Gupta, solid Waste Management special commissioner Harish Kumar and joint commissioner Sarfaraz Khan received the award in New Delhi.
TheKarnatakagovernment has issued a notification giving directions to implement 17 per cent enhanced reservation for the Scheduled Castes and 7 per cent for the Scheduled Tribes from Tuesday on the occasion ofKannada Rajyotsavaday.
However, the bureaucrats have stated that there was no clarity on the notification issued for the implementation. They also stated that the ambiguities need to be ironed out first.
The roasters have to be reworked and under legal provisions also, the implementation of enhancement of reservations was not simple, they said.
TheSocial Welfare Departmenthas issued a notification and has given directions for implementing the ordinance by the .
The notification had been given to the heads of all departments, universities, academic institutions, corporations, boards, commissions, government undertakings, the secretary of theKarnataka Public Service Commission(Kpsc) and the CEO ofKarnataka Examination Authority(KEA).
Karnataka might be headed towards a power crisis with the central government withholding 1,000MW of power over non-payment of dues, reports Sandeep Moudgal. The Centres decision follows a clean-up aimed at making states accountable for energy consumed.
The state is now raising funds to pay Central Generating Stations (CGS) of the National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC). Karnataka, which has five electricity supply companies (escoms), owes CGS over Rs 1,000 crore.
According to senior government officials, non-payment of dues means 1,000 MW will not be available ahead of the post-monsoon season beginning October-end.