KARNATAKA

After making traditional dress compulsory at Kateel Durgaparameshwari Temple and Polali Rajarajeshwari Temple in Dakshina Kannada district, the Karnataka State Dharmik Parishat has plans to implement similar code in all 216 A grade temples under the Hindu religious institutions and charitable endowment department in the state.

The Parishat is a government body that makes recommendations on conducting rituals, pujas and preparing a dress code for devotees entering temples controlled by the government. The Hindu religious institutions and charitable endowment department has to approve the Parishats recommendations and send them before the cabinet for approval before they are implemented.

An hour after swearing-in ceremony of 29 Ministers, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai chaired a full-fledged Cabinet meeting on Wednesday and decided to establish a separate Scheduled Tribe Welfare Secretariat for faster approval of schemes and effective utilisation of funds meant for the community.

At present, there are separate secretariats for Other Backward Castes (OBCs) and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The Cabinet decided to form the separate ST Welfare Secretariat for quick approvals, effective supervision, and faster implementation of schemes meant for the welfare of the community, the chief minister told media persons after the meeting.

At present, the different departments allocate funds for the Scheduled Tribe Plan (STP). Formation of the separate secretariat would help the government to allocate funds in one department. STs constitute around 7% of the States Population. With todays decision, the government has fulfilled a long-pending demand of the community, he said.

On the lines of Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan and Tribal Sub-Plans (SCSP/TSP), the Cabinet has taken a decision on forming a Mission headed by the CM for effective implementation of womens safety and welfare programmes in various departments. The Mission would function under the direct supervision of the CM, as announced in the Budget 2021-22.

Industries minister MB Patil visited industries in Belur industrial area Gamanagatti, Mummigatti, Ithigatti on Monday. The minister has assured government support to those wishing to set up agro-based industries in their farmlands.

Patil, who has been emphasizing the need to spread industries to regions outside Bengaluru, visited Infrafine Foods Private Limited in Gamanagatti, which specializes in fruit pulp extraction and exports to America, Japan, and European countries, Patil praised the company’s impressive Growth. He highlighted the benefits such industries bringing to farmers by directly purchasing fruits like mango, guava, and pineapple. Additionally, these industries add value to agricultural produce.

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) estimates that the city produces 150 tonnes of animal waste every day but says there is no mechanism to control or properly dispose it of.
Determined to find a solution to this, Mahadevapura Task Force (MTF), a citizens group set up by local MLA Arvind Limbavali, has come together with the local administration to build Bengalurus first animal waste processing plant, with an initial capacity of 20 tonnes.

The plant has been sanctioned by the gram panchayat of Kannuru and will be constructed under a private-public PARTNERSHIP model. The plan is to collect animal waste from all shops in the constituency for free and process it into usable products that will be sold to relevant dealers and businesses. An inaugural ceremony a bhoomi pooja was conducted to kickstart the project on July 2.

TheKarnatakagovernment said that it will cap the treatment cost of mucormycosis in private hospitals across the state. A potentially fatal fungal infection, mucormycosis spreads rapidly from the nose and sinuses to the face, jaw, eyes, and brain, entailing expensive treatment and long hospitalisation. Hundreds of families are shelling out lakhs on anti-fungal drugs, the prices of which have rocketed in recent weeks following a spike in cases.

The cost of treatment, especially in private hospitals, can go up to Rs 3 lakh. Moreover, with the relatives of patients being told to bring the medicines on their own mainly Liposomal Amphotericin-B and Amphotericin-B injections medicine prices have surged, besides leading to blackmarketing and a price surge.

In the wake of spiralling cases in Karnataka, the decided to replicate the Mumbai model for Covid management in Bengaluru. Itll have a decentralised approach with Decentralised Triage and Emergency Response (DETER) committees in all 198 wards.

Its also expected to provide timely, accurate information relating to masking and physical distancing, symptoms, testing, Home isolation while waiting for test results, contact tracing and triaging (identifying home isolation or admission to stabilisation centres or hospitalisation and access to hospital beds with/ without Oxygen/ventilators).

According to the district survey reports,Belagavidistrict has 1,536 voters who have crossed 100 years, eligible to vote in the assembly Elections, scheduled on May 10.

Belagavi stands second in the state, while Mysuru tops the list. According to the office of the chief electoral officer in Karnataka, there are 16,973 registered voters who have crossed 100 years, of whom 9,985 are Women. Mysuru, Belagavi and Bengaluru (Urban, North, South) have nearly 40% of all the centurion voters in the state. The top-5 districts listed in terms of centurion voters are Mysuru (1,744), Belagavi (1,536), Bengaluru Urban (1,191), BBMP North (1,133), and BBMP South (922).

The Indian Institute of Science (IISC) in Bengaluru has launched “Param Pravega,” one of India’s most powerful supercomputers.

Highlights:

The supercomputer Param Pravega has a supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops. It is an Indian academic institution’s largest supercomputer.

Param Pravega is a supercomputer that belongs to the High-Performance Computing system family.

This system comprises a variety of heterogeneous nodes, with CPU nodes powered by Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processors.

It includes a Software stack on top of the hardware that includes various program development tools, utilities, and libraries for developing and executing High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications.

:MM Hills Wildlifesanctuary is inching closer to become a tiger reserve. Following necessary approval from both the Centre and (NTCA) in July, which was delayed due to the pandemic, now forest department sources claim the State Government may notify the wildlife sanctuary as a tiger reserve anytime soon.

As a formal notification from the state government is needed to get more funds for protection of tigers as well as for conservation, to avoid poaching and man animal conflict in the tiger reserve, the forest department is expecting the notification from the state government soon. The state board for wildlife has approved the proposal.

The sactuary is spread over 90,618.75 hectares with a core of 670.95 sq km and a buffer zone of 235.19 sq km. Becoming a tiger reserve will help the forest department get an additional Rs 25 crore to Rs 30 crore annually which can be used to mitigate man animal conflict, set up anti-poaching camps and install more camera traps.