KARNATAKA

The state will emerge as the topper in manufacturing of semiconductors and chips in the coming years, akill development minister Dr CN Ashwath Narayan said

He was speaking after opening a multi-Skill development centre, built at the cost of Rs 20 crore, and starting off a helpline 155267 for skill development, and livelihood.

Ashwath Narayan said that currently Taiwan is the topper in manufacturing of semiconductors and chips. Now Karnataka is focused in that sector.Karnataka is the only state where skill development training is being provided for non-technical students too, he said.

In a major move to end traffic congestion inVijayawada, the has prevailed upon the Centre to grant a newbypass roadto the existing national highway passing through the city.

The new bypass will connectNH-16in Krishna and Guntur districts with a new river overbridge. The bypass will be coming up almost 40 kilometres away on the eastern side of Vijayawada. The Centre has given the green signal to the project following a special request made by chief minister Y SJagan Mohan Reddy. The Centre has also agreed to share about 50 per cent of the cost of acquisition of land required for the project. The 78-km-long new bypass highway is expected to cost around Rs 600 to Rs 800 crore including the cost ofland acquisition.

This is the second bypass for Vijayawada as works on the Gundugolanu (Krishna district)-Chinakakani (Guntur district) have already been put on the fast track. Though the Gundugolanu-Kaza bypass was granted almost a decade ago, work picked up pace after the YSRC came to power in the state. The previous TDP government had put the project on hold with a view to designing the river overbridge as an iconic structure. However, the designs were not cleared even after a lapse of five years. Considering the high cost involved in the bridge project, the Centre asked the state government to bear a 50 per cent share of the project.

Only 13% of government schools (upper primary to higher secondary) inKarnataka, Home to the countrys IT capital, haveICTlabs, says the latest U-DISE (Unified District Information System for Education) data released by the ministry of school education and Literacy on Thursday. Worse, the Percentage of government schools with a functional ICT (Information & Communication Technology) lab is just 7%.

However, Karnatakas education department said the figures are not updated. The data could be reflecting only labs built using government funds. Almost all schools have labs through donors or other means. Last year alone, 764 schools were given permission. Due to Covid-19, we could implement it only in 502 schools thus far.

Kannada film starPuneeth Rajkumar, who passed away following cardiac arrest a fortnight ago, will be conferred Karnataka Ratna, the highest civilian honour in the state.

The award has been given to nine achievers ever since it was instituted three decades ago.Puneethis the second Personality from the Kannada film after his father and superstar Dr Rajkumar to be given the award.

CM Basavaraj Bommai made the announcement during Puneeth Namana, a tribute to the actor organized by the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce.

According to the Karnataka Women and child welfare department, 2,074 child marriages were prevented between February and November 2020 when Covid-19 pandemic was at its peak. The highest number of child marriages averted was in Ballari (218), followed by Mysuru (177), Belagavi (131) and Chikkaballapura and Chitradurga (107 each). In the same period, 20 child marriages cases were prevented in Bengaluru.

In the same period, FIRs were registered in 108 child marriages across the state. As per data, the highest number of child marriages were conducted in Hassan (26), followed by Mandya (25), Mysuru (24), Belagavi (19) and Ramanagara (13). In Bengaluru city, five child marriages were held in the same period.

According to data from theministry of Environment, forestsand https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change, more than 13.3 lakh hectares of forests are under encroachment across the country.

Of this, Karnataka alone has 83,092.3 hectares, which, according to local authorities, includes families occupying forests without permission. Heres some perspective: The extent of forest area under encroachment is more than the size of Bengaluru the city has a land area of about 74,000 hectares and more than four times the size ofMysuru.

In Karnataka, the issue of forest encroachment has for long been both a critical and sensitive one. While there are encroachments for commercial activity, the other, more sensitive type of encroachment, has been by families living in areas they shouldnt.

As per Union ministry data, of 13.3 lakh hectares, more than 40% of the encroachment is in Madhya Pradesh, followed by Assam, which accounts for 27% of the encroached land. Although Karnatakas share is much less around 6% compared to these two states, it occupies the third place, followed byMaharashtraand Arunachal Pradesh.

The KarnatakaRajya RaithaSangha (KRRS) and Hasiru Sene activists staged a dharna near old deputy commissioners office in the city on Thursday urging the to repealKarnatakaPrevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Act, 2020. The protesters said the Act is detrimental to the interests of farmers to take care of aged cattle.
They also asked the government to withdraw the three controversial farm laws the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act (ECA), 2020.

Citizens and Environmentalists are combat towards the notion to clear over 6,000 trees in Singanayakanahalli to construct a lake under Hebbal-Nagawara Valley Project with the aid of Minor Irrigation Department in Karnataka.

Highlights:

Forest Department, in a latest notification, proposed to felled 6,316 timber to advance Singanayakanahalli lake, Yelahanka hobli, due to the fact they are coming in way of this project.

Hebbal-Nagawara Valley Project: This challenge was launched with the aim of filling 65 tanks in Bengaluru Urban, Rural and Chickballapur. Bagaluru lake was the first lake to obtain handled water from this project.

The mission was once intended to act as an impounded reservoir to furnish water in 11 different lakes in this region. Direct use of handled water for ingesting and agricultural purposes used to be prohibited but farmers have been of the view that, task is growing the water table. Activists are questioning the need and good judgment of casting off such big quantity of trees.

Hebbal Lake:The lake is located in Bangalore at the mouth of National Highway 7, close to the junction of Bellary Road & Outer Ring Road. These lakes had been created in 1537 with the aid of Kempe Gowda. It used to be shaped by using damming herbal valley systems. It spreads over a place of 75 ha with plans for extending it up to 143 ha.

In a huge blow to farmers inKarnataka, milk unions have decided to slash purchase price by Rs 1.5 per litre from June 1, owing to plummeting consumption amid the pandemic-induced lockdown.

Ironically, low demand has been compounded by a glut in production because of decent rains. The Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF), the apex body of milk unions, receives about 87 lakh litres daily as against normal inflow of 73 lakh litres. Daily sales, on the other hand, have dipped from 60 lakh to 49 lakh litres.

KMF, which is under pressure to continue procurement, has appealed to the Centre to allow milk unions to borrow under the interest subvention scheme on the lines of its package for last years lockdown when the milk unions availed Rs 800 crore.