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Row over sale of
tapes:
Lokayukta SP raids AVRC premises: The controversy over the
sale of tapes from the Audio Visual research Centre (AVRC),
has taken a serious turn with the Lokayukta SP conducting
a raid at the premises on Friday. It may be recalled that
the Lokayukta had admitted a complaint from Nanjaraje Urs,
a retired lecturer, charging the authorities of AVRC with
illegal sale of un-edited video footage. The complainant
had claimed that the valuable footage of heritage
structures in and around Karnataka was being sold to
foreign countries. Urs further claimed that the racket was
exposed when the middleman spilled the beans following a
rift between him and AVRC director N Usha Rani.
Varsities chalk
out lake cleaning scheme:
The Mysore University and the City Corporation has come
out with a joint action plan to check pollution in the
Kukkarahalli Lake. A meeting to this effect was held here
at the Mysore University Syndicate Meeting Hall, which was
attended by Vice Chancellors S N Hegde, N S Rame Gowda,
City Corporation Commissioner Selva Kumar, registrar N. D.
Tiwari and Kukkarahalli Lake Protection Committee
president Jayaramiah. The Mysore University Engineering
division has prepared estimates of Rs 11.50 lakh and Rs
2.90 lakh towards the project.
City looks to
Latin America for business:
Exporters from the City explored the possibility of
extending their business ventures to Latin American
countries, which were hitherto neglected, despite the fact
that they contribute 5 per cent of the world trade. The
Mysore Chapter of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII),
held an interface programme between City exporters and
Joint Director General of Foreign Trade J.V. Patil on
Thursday. Referring to unexplored areas, Patil pointed out
that with "license raj" getting replaced by free
trade, exporters might not face hurdles while importing
exporting. However, he said that the Government could only
bring out policies.
Varsity's
"anti-student" policy condemned:
ABVP activists will hold a meeting to chalk out a course
of action against the anti-student attitude of the
authorities in Mysore University. ABVP leader Lokesh
Ambekallu said students were harassed by the
"authoritarian attitude of the varsity
authorities". He flayed the university for its
failure in streamlining the examination and evaluation
processes. The flaws found in the marks cards of
graduation students has exposed the "inefficiency of
the varsity", he said. He has demanded the suspension
of the Registrar of Evaluation for his failure in managing
the examinations.
Row over City
Corp standing committee polls blows over:
Election to the standing committees of the City
Corporation, which was postponed following differences
among Congress corporators, including corporators from the
Congress, Janata Dal and BJP, were elected unopposed to
the Works and Accounts and Audit Committees. It may be
recalled that a section of corporators, who had sought for
a seat in the standing committees, had picked up a row
with the Mayor and City Congress leaders.
Blind students
on fast in City:
The students of Government Blind School in Tilakanagar
continued their hunger strike seeking redressal of their
grievances including shifting of a district officer. The
agitating students later mobbed Chennaiah, the district
rehabilitation officer, who visited them on Wednesday. The
students, seeking shifting of Chennaiah, further sought
filling up of all teachers' posts, which lay vacant since
long in the school. Further, the students have demanded
reappointment of one Dhanajaya as the warden of the school
hostel. Listing out their demands, the students opposed
the construction of residential quarters inside the school
premises for the teaching community.
Ex-minister
suspects plot for FCI go down closure:
Former Food and Civil Supplies Minister S Nanjappa charged
that a conspiracy had been hatched to permanently close
the Food Corporation of India go down. He said the
functioning of the FCI go down has been beneficial for
farmers and business community. However, the FCI manager
has forwarded a misleading report claiming that the
Government was incurring an annual loss of Rs 5 lakh. He
said rumours over closure of go down had left hundreds of
farmers and businessmen who have dumped hundreds of bags
of food grains in the lurch. The farmers and businessmen
have also been served eviction orders to remove the stocks
in 30 days.
KRRS condemns
water release to Tamil Nadu:
Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha president K S Puttaniah
condemned the Government for its failure in providing
water to farmers while affecting the release to Tamil
Nadu. Speaking to media persons here on Tuesday, he said
failure in taking up canal repair work has delayed release
of water. This, he said, has resulted in forced release of
water to Tamil Nadu. Referring to the release of water to
Tamil Nadu through to Tamil Nadu through Kapila River, he
recalled that around 16,000 cusecs of water was released
through the river while the major irrigation canales
remained dry.
MATF charges
City Corp with violation:
The Mysore Agenda Task force has charged the City
Corporation of violating the building norms during the
construction of an annex. According to members of the Task
Force, the building behind Mysore City Corporation facing
Banumaiah Road has been built to house commercial shops.
The rolling shutters on the ground floor building, was
aimed to house shops, which violated the public use clause
of the City Plan. The revised Comprehensive Development
Plan of Mysore divides the Corporation premises as public
and semi-public use zone.
Stress on single
language, culture will destroy diversity:
The over emphasis laid on centralization would result in
dividing the country into English speaking and non-English
segment, said noted writer U R Ananthamurty. Speaking at
the Foundation Day celebrations of Central Institute of
Indian Languages (CIIL) in Mysore on Monday, he resented
the trend for a single language, race and religion, which
would override the concept of diversity in culture. The
trend for centralization of language and culture has been
adopted from the West, he added. In the rat race to become
"modern" linguistic diversity should not be
forgotten, he said adding that instead "technology
should empower language".
State releases
water to TN from Kabini:
Bowing to pressure from Tamil Nadu, the State Government
has released 16,000 cusecs of water from Kabini reservoir,
following rise in inflow. The unannounced release of water
has inundated low-lying areas along the Kapila River and
fishermen have suffered losses with their implements
getting washed away. It may be recalled that the TN
Government had approached the Supreme Court, seeking
release of 3 TMC of water to Mettur reservoir to save
standing paddy crops. Heavy rains in Vaynad, Kerala, which
is the prime catchment area, has resulted in inflow of
30,000 cusecs to the reservoir. However, the farmers of H
D Kote have charged the State for failing to release water
through the canal for irrigation in Karnataka while bowing
to pressure from Tamil Nadu.
Biotech must
reach common man:
Biotechnology has not reached the common man, said Central
Food Technology Research Centre (CFTRI) Director V Prakash
at a seminar here on Sunday. Speaking on
"Bio-technology revolution in the New
Millennium", he said biotechnology has played a vital
role in checking loss of food grains. He said around 25
percent of food grain wastage could be saved by using
biotechnology through value addition which many are not
aware of. At the same time we should respect the
experience gained by the farmers on crop patterns and
seasons, he added.
Minority leaders
walk out of Cong meet panels:
The Congress corporators meeting, convened to discuss
elections to the standing committees in Mysore City
Corporation, witnessed heated verbal exchange and a
walkout by members of a minority community. It all began
when Congress corporator Nasiruddin Babu charged that
Muslim corporators were not taken into confidence. He said
only a few of them in Bangalore have decided the
candidates for standing committees. The party leaders who
had assured to field Syed Noorulla for the Works Committee
have failed to keep their promise and reiterated that they
were being sidelined in the party. Meanwhile, Deputy Mayor
Arjun Kumar said MLA Tanveer Sait would hold talks with
Muslim corporators who were engaged in a wordy duel.
Muslim corporators alleged that they were being neglected
and walked out of the meeting.
Correspondent
for OKC.
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