KARNATAKA

The Siddaramaiah-led government has said that it will repeal amendments piloted by the previous BJP government to the Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture Produce Marketing Committees (APMC) Act and that it will restore old provisions of the Act with some progressive additions.

TheKarnatakaAgricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation and Development) (Amendment) Act 2020 is the state version of the central legislation to modify APMC laws. HK Patil said the amended Act will be withdrawn and the Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation and Development) Act, 1966, will be restored with some provisions of the amended Act.

Prior to the amendment, the revenue of all APMCs put together was around Rs 650 crore, but it fell to around Rs 200 crore after the amendment

Maharashtra Resources“>Water Resources minister Jayant Patil attended a high-level meeting withKarnatakachief ministerBS Yediyurappa in Bengalurufor better flood-management between the two states.

After the meeting, Patil said the Karnataka government has decided to set up a real-time data acquisition system (RTDAS) at its Almatti and Narayanpur Dams to monitor water levels, which will help prevent 2019-like floods in Kolhapur andSangli districts, in which 60 people lost their lives.

After the Centre issued an order to repeal all redundant laws and decriminalise many for ,Karnatakahas identified 323 laws which need to be simplified or done away with.

While the Covid-19 pandemic gave states, including Karnataka, ample opportunity to withdraw or modify controversial laws, it also left governments with no voice from industries to suggest which laws were creating hurdles.

According to industries department officials, no Industry body has given suggestions on which laws were hindering fresh factories and units being set up.

The issue of separate religious status for Lingayats was a political issue in the 2018assembly . Three ministers and many MLAs of the Congress and JD(S) Coalition Government had taken initiative for the agitation. However, those politicians have left the movement for their own reasons. The demand took a backseat in these five years.

About 1 lakh Lingayats from across state, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and other states are participating at their own cost and contributing funds voluntarily for the event.

TheKarnataka dismissed all the petitions filed by Muslim girls seeking permission to wearhijabin educational institutions.

While delivering the final verdict, the Karnataka HC said that wearing hijab by Muslim Women doesn’t form an essential religious practice under the Islamic faith.

He said the government had the power to prescribe uniform guidelines, dismissing various petitions challenging the order.

The controversy began in December when a government-run school in Karnataka’s Udupi district barred students wearing hijabs from entering classrooms, triggering protests by Muslims.

Months before the Karnataka assembly polls, the Centre has approved a modified detailed project report (DPR) of the Kalasa-Banduri Nala drinking water project, which was one of the key poll promises made by BJP during the 2018 assembly election, report Sandeep Moudgal & Gururaj Jamkhandi.

The project report was approved despite objections from Goa. “This is PM Narendra Modi’s gift to North Karnataka and this sweet news has come during the legislature session in Belagavi,”Bommaiinformed the assembly hours before the winter session wound up on Thursday. The project had been hanging fire for long, with agitations seeking early implementation going on for at least four decades.

Karnataka struck down provisions ofKarnatakaPolice (Amendment) Act, 2021, that had banned online games.

The division bench was headed by Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Krishna S. Dixit.

According to the bench, Karnataka Act number 28/2021 to the extent the provisions ultra vires the constitution, however not the entire Act.

This judgment was interpreted for preventing an appropriate legislation concerning the subject like betting and gambling in line with the provisions of constitution.

A writ of Mandamus was issued to restrain the respondents from interfering with online gaming business and allied activities of the petitioners.

TheChild Rights Masotsava Committeehas observed that 90% of the schools inDakshina Kannadado not have a child protection policy document. The Karnataka State Child Rights Policy-2016 has even prescribed a template for child protection policy for schools.

With the increasing numbers of crimes against children, especially sexual abuse and cyber crime, having a child protection policy document is the need of the hour, and the committee will insist that the administration make it mandatory.