KARNATAKA

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.

In a move that could affect electric vehicle (EV) adoption inKarnataka, the state transport department is mulling ending 100% road tax exemption given to battery-run vehicles. If approved, EVs will be costlier in the state.

Sources in the transport department said discussions are going on to include this proposal in the upcoming budget. By 2030, a significant number of vehicles will be electric, especially in Bengaluru. Motor vehicle tax is one of the major revenues of the and any shortfall will affect Infrastructure and social welfare schemes. There will be a separate tax slab for EVs. But talks are in early stages. The state government will have to approve the proposal, the sources said.

Karnataka has more than two crore registered vehicles of which EVs are only 1.5 lakh till December. Between May and December 2022, 61,598 EVs were registered in the state.

In March 2016, the state government exempted all EVs from paying road tax. In Karnataka, however, only road tax exemption with no registration fee is given to EV customers. Many other states/UTs offer financial subsidies for EVs along with road tax exemption.

Karnataka is also the first state in the country to come up with an Electric Vehicle and Energy Storage Policy in 2017. Experts fear a move to impose MV tax on EVs is likely to discourage prospective buyers. Many are reluctant to shift to EVs due to the high initial cost and inadequate number of charging stations.

At present, Karnataka imposes the highest road tax for non-EVs in the country. For cars below Rs 5 lakh, for instance, it is around 13% of the actual price, 14% for Rs 5 lakh-Rs 10 lakh, 17% between Rs 10 lakh-Rs 20 lakh and 18% for above Rs 20 lakh.