KARNATAKA

hile chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday reaffirmed his commitment to promote Kannada, stakeholders urged the to prevail upon the Centre to accord Official Language status toKannadaand other regional languages on a par withHindiand English.

The activists revived their demand of official status to all 23 scheduled languages in the central government administration through a constitutional amendment. They want a resolution passed in the legislature.

Meanwhile, the Kannada Development Authority (KDA) is preparing a draft of the Samagra Kannada Bhasha Masoode (Comprehensive Kannada Language Bill) envisaging a single-window agency to implement Kannada in the state administration and frame common rules for promoting it, including signages in public places and commercial establishments.

Article 343 of the Constitution states that the official language of the Union shall be Hindi along with English and theyre now being used for official purposes by the central government. Language activists want it to be amended to accommodate all scheduled languages, including Kannada. They want Article 351, which says its the duty of the Union Government to promote Hindi, to be repealed.

The coconut processing centre set up by a cooperative Society at Munachanahalli in Chamarajanagar taluk will soon be extended at a cost of Rs 4.5 crore. A decision to this effect was taken by the board of directors of the unit at the recently held general meeting.

The unit, which has a capacity of processing 50,000 coconuts per day, provides jobs to around 250 people. Local growers formed a cooperative association and established this processing unit under Chamarajanagar Coconut Growers Association 20 years ago. More than 13,000 farmers of the district are cultivating coconut on 26,000 hectares using Irrigation pump sets in Hanur, Kollegal, Yelandur and Gundlupet taluks.
The had sanctioned Rs 3.5 crore for the unit in the 2010-11 budget to help the Association to set up their unit at Munanchanahalli village to ensure Marketing facilities for local coconut growers.

While the bureaucrats of Nadu and Karnataka took part in the meeting convened by CWMA chairman S K Haldar in New Delhi, the representatives ofPuducherryandKeralajoined through video-conference. Mekedatu was included in the agenda and we wanted to discuss that.

Officials found that many children, especially those in rural areas, dont have a mobile or a television in their homes.

Several huts and small units in villages dont have electricity connections. The department is providing solar lamps to class 10 students living in such households. We have taken up a campaign to distribute solar lamps with the help of individual donors and organisations. We have already received 25 solar lamp sets.

Online or digital Education has gained widespread adoption following the pandemic. While it has helped ease Learning disruptions in urban areas, children in many rural areas have been left out. A number of studies and ground reports have shown how lack of devices and Internet connection is hampering learning in rural or remote pockets. Officials and organisations are making efforts to solve the problem.

The Center for Social Exclusion and Inclusion of the University of Mysore has taken up the ethnographic study of the Devanga community, andVishwakarmacommunity. These studies are funded by the D Devaraja Research Institute.

The leaders from both these communities are demanding Scheduled Tribe status for their respective castes. The studies are headed by the associate professor of the department DC Nanjunda.

According to the sources both these studies were initiated when BJP was in power in the state. With reservation becoming a contentious issue, the report is likely to help the to understand the social and economic realities of a few most backward castes in the state.T

Rs 6.3 lakh is the project cost of the ethnographic study of the Devanga community, while the cost of Vishwakarma caste study including a documentary is Rs 18.8 lakh.

Karnatakawillgrow bambooon 57,000 hectares in the state in the next two years, saidforest minister Umesh V Katti.

He was speaking after launching a project of planting 10 lakhsaplingsof variousfruit-bearing trees, through the Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project and forest department in Venur region of Kundapur division atErmodi forest area, in Belthangady taluk.

He said that programmes to increase forest cover, and planting saplings of fruit-bearing trees, will help in reducing instances of man-animal conflict.

Under the denotification programme, which was undecided for the past several years, the forest department has handed over 6.6 lakh hectares of deemed forest to the revenue department. Farmers in those taluks may cultivate the land, based on the directions of bagair hukum committees. Meanwhile, 3.3 lakh hectares of land has been handed over to the forest department, and thereby the forest cover has been increased from 42 lakh hectares to 45 lakh hectares in the state.

TheKarnatakadepartment of school Education has decided to carry out a Health assessment survey of children joining government schools this academic year, to guage the benefits of the Pradhan Mantri Poshan ShaktiNirman(PM Poshan) scheme, formerly known as the Midday Meal scheme.

This is to get an idea of how the supplementary Nutrition programme where milk, eggs, groundnut chikki and bananas are included in the midday meals provided to children has benefitted them. As part of this, all government schools have been instructed to check the weight and height of the beneficiaries from this academic year, during a recent video conference meeting held with all DDPIs in attendance.

The started serving eggs, groundnut chikki, and bananas with midday meals for children from classes 1 to 8 in government schools last academic year. The children have been receiving milk under the KsheeraBhagyaScheme for the past decade.

This is also known as the Kaleidoscopic Effect.

These halos are known as 22-degree halos because the halo or ring has an apparent radius of 22 degrees around the sun/moon.
Cirrus clouds, which are thin, detached, hair-like clouds, produce circular halos in particular. These clouds form at a height of more than 20,000 feet in the .
A halo, like a rainbow, is visible when viewed from the right angle, sometimes appearing only white but often with colours from the spectrum clearly visible.

To help Covid-19 patients,Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation(KSRTC) launched ICU on wheels in the city.

The ‘Sarige Suraksha’ (ICU on wheels) is equipped with five Oxygen beds, patient monitoring devices, IV line, provision for ventilator, emergency medicines and backup Generator. KSRTCs inhouse team built this facility at a cost of Rs 10 lakh.

Savadi said ‘oxygen on wheels’ will be extended to all districts by four-state-run bus corporations if NGOs and hospitals come forward.

Sangoli Rayanna, a military school in Karnataka, is being built at Rs 180 crores by the . The defense ministry will be in charge of the school.

Highlights:

Sangoli Rayanna was a princely realm of Kittur warriors. Karnataka’s present capital is Kittur.

He fought alongside Rani Chennamma against the Doctrine of Lapse until his death. The British assassinated the Kittur kingdom’s ruler and prince.

They planned to assume control of the Kittur kingdom under the Doctrine of Lapse because there was no legal heir to the monarch.

Rani Chennamme adopted Shivalingappa as the monarch of the Kittur kingdom. Shivalingappa was to be the future emperor, according to Sangoli Rayanna.

Rayanna was a crucial figure in the 1824 uprising. The majority of the territory in Kittur’s realm was taken away. And the land that was left behind was highly taxed.

He formed a guerrilla force. He and his soldiers marched from town to town, torching government buildings and plundering coffers.

He enlisted the help of ordinary people to train and build an army. In 1830, the British apprehended him and imprisoned him.