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.
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.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday announced his government’s decision to introduce a new EMPLOYMENT policy soon which will lay impetus on job creation and reduce Unemployment in the state.
Speaking after inaugurating the Jobs Fair at the Gogte Engineering College here held under the auspices of the Skills Development Corporation, the chief minister said the jobless youths were being given an honorary employment dole to encourage them to find employment. The government will, henceforth, encourage such institutions which are engaged in generating a higher number of employment opportunities, he said.
The chief minister also said that there is a need to upgrade higher Education and professional courses to global Learning standards and hence the Higher Education and Skills Development Departments are working in unison to this effect.
TheHigh Court of Karnatakahas reserved for judgment a 1995 petition challenging the various provisions of theKarnatakaEducation Act, 1983. The provisions challenged include the reservation for appointment of staff in unaided schools and prescription of syllabus by the .
Private schools in Karnatakahave approached the High Court of Karnataka, seeking among other things, permission to draft textbooks on their own.
The Karnataka Unaided Schools Managements’ Association (KUSMA) in their petition have sought “the State government ought not to prescribe any particular publication or textbook as the sole and exclusive reading material in private unaided schools; and that, private unaided schools are free to choose a textbook of their choice so long as such textbooks adhere to the syllabus prescribed by the State government.”
The provisions of the Karnataka Education Act, 1983 in this regard has been challenged.
KUSMA has also challenged several other provisions of the Karnataka Education Act including Section 5 read with Section 41(3), which prescribes reservation in the matter of appointment of TEACHING and non-teaching staff in private unaided schools.
The NGT principal bench in New Delhi has been, for eight years, supervising compliance with earlier directions issued by The Supreme Court regarding the handling of solid waste and sewage management. In its order on Thursday, the tribunal noted that the steps taken by the Karnataka government in handling solid and liquid waste have been “inadequate”, which caused heavy damage to the Environment and public Health.
Assessing the extent of damage and estimating compensation on the ‘Polluter Pays’ principle for restoration of the environment, NGT initially estimated compensation payable at Rs 3,400 crore. But NGT chairperson Adarsh Kumar Goel ordered a deduction of Rs 500 crore levied on Monday for damage to the Chandapura Lake in Electronics City, Bengaluru.
Hubballi-Dharwad is possibly north Karnataka’s largest industrial hub, but its industrial estates are suffering from a lack of and a reduction in productivity.
Dharwad is geographically located in the centre of north Karnataka and has good connectivity. However, the industrial estates situated in Belur, Tarihal, Mummigatti, Kotur and Lakamanahalli are lacking basic infrastructure as a result of which the industries are unable to utilize their full capacity. The failure of the KIADB in handing over these estates to the local bodies since last two decades has added to the woes of the entrepreneurs.
The outbreak of Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdown have rubbed salt in the entrepreneurs wounds. The majority of industrial units in industrial estates are small-scale, auxiliary industries that supply accessories to big and medium-sized enterprises. Due to the fact that the large and medium enterprises that purchased the products of small units cut their production, the demand for auxiliary products decreased as well, according to an industrialist.
It has got the to table theKannadalanguage bill in the legislative assembly, the Kannada Development Authority (KDA) has set its sights even higher.
It is now seeking Official Language status for Kannada, besides other regional languages, at the national level and wants the state to take up the issue with the Union Government. KDA is exerting pressure on chief minister Basavaraj Bommai to pass a resolution, seeking official language status for Kannada and the 21 other languages listed under the 8th Schedule of the Constitution. Currently, onlyHindiand English have been identified as official languages, which means all communications and correspondences from the Centre are in these two languages.
The authority has already started work on a draft resolution with inputs of constitutional experts and languageluminaries. The government is apparently willing to take the initiative forward.
In order to give priority to Skill development among the students as per the National Education Policy (NEP-2020), the Department of Higher Education in Karnataka will soon ink three MoUs with IT major Infosys.
Narayan said, “These MoUs will be related to utilising the ‘Infosys Springboard’, which comprises over 3,000 courses of skill development for college students, ‘Campus Connect’ for digital Learning of college faculty and professional guidance for students and donation of 15,000 debonded computers to colleges from Infosys.”
Infosys Springboard is an integrated digital Literacy platform comprising effective digital learning solutions, technology-based life skill courses, gamification, live classes, certification, makers lab, carrer guidance etc.
Introduction of gesture computing and biometrics for smart classrooms, utilising virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) for training, linking learning data with performance outcome, utilising gamification and design principles to create healthy competition among students, utilising automation and robotic tools to create content will be part of the MoUs, he said.
Senior advocate KN Phanindra, who is assisting the as amicus curiae in a suo motuPILon the issue, said 91% of households in rural areas and 79% in Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) have been covered under the door-to-door survey till June 2021. This apart, 9,716 children in rural areas and 4,842 in ULBs have never enrolled in school.
The exercise for identifying out-of-school children is stipulated under rule 6 (1) of the Karnataka Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2012.
The amicus curiae said so far, 80,59,221 of 88,55,659 families in rural areas have been covered and 32,14,257 out of 34,55,656 children were found to be going to school. In the ULBs, 25,65,309 out of 32,43,590 families (based on properties) have been covered and 9,25,820 children in the age group of 6 to 18 attend classes.
The has allowed free travel for Women under theShakti Yojana, but it is affecting students as authorities are not providing more buses for the transportation of school and college students. Because of this, the students from rural areas will have to travel in crowded buses, which is causing inconvenience to them.
The buses plying via Yaraguppi, Chikkanarthi, Hirenerthi and Benakanahalli route of Kundagol taluk are witnessing heavy rush and having more than the prescribed number of passengers, which has forced school and college students to travel by standing on the footboard or standing in the crowded buses. Due to these problems regularly, the Conductors are said to be forcing students to get down or come by another bus
In four decades,Karnatakas life expectancy at birth has gone down from the second best to the lowest insouth India.
As per Abridged Life Tables 2015-19 of the Sample Registration System (SRS), Karnatakas life expectancy at birth in 1970-75 was 55.2 years, the second highest in South India.Keralahad the highest life expectancy at birth with 75.2 years. AP and TN trailed Karnataka with 48.8 years and 49.6 years, respectively. In 2015-19, all the other south Indian states have left Karnataka behind with 69.5 years of life expectancy at birth.