Mixed response to SFI bundh
Deccan Herald News Service Bangalore:
The bundh call given by Student Federation of India (SFI) on Thursday in protest against the Supreme Court verdict banning government quota in professional colleges evoked mixed response across the state.
Most of schools and colleges functioned as usual in all the major cities including Bangalore, Hubli-Dharwad, Mysore and Mangalore.
However the SFI activists took out protest rallies across the State and submitted memorandum demanding a central legislation empowering state governments to fix quota in private professional colleges to safeguard the interest of poor and weaker sections of society.
In Dharwad SFI activists took out a rally and burnt the effigy of the state government.
In Mangalore, the bundh-call evoked poor response even though three High Schools and one college in the outskirts remained closed. The activists also held a demonstration in front of the DC office.
Friday, August 26, 2005
Publisher moots Kannada books for Frankfurt fair
Publisher moots Kannada books for Frankfurt fair
The Times of India
Dharwad: The president of Karnataka State Publishers Association, Ramakant Joshi, has urged the state government to get important literary works in Kannada translated and exhibit them at the 58th Frankfurt book fair scheduled to be held in Germany in October 2006.
Joshi told reporters here, after 20 years, India has been invited to participate in the international book fair as a guest of honour. The National Book Trust and Federation of Indian Publishers have appealed to the Indian publishers to get important works translated.
The last date for booking space in the Indian Pavilion is August 31, 2005. Joshi said the government should get one work each of seven Jnanapith awardees from Karnataka translated into German language, publish them and display it at the Frankfurt book fair. Totally, 10 to 15 books can be translated, he said.
Two famous Kannada writers, a reputed publisher and the chairman of Kannada Book Authority should be sent to the Frankfurt book fair.
He said he had approached the director of department and Kannada and Culture and chairman of Kannada Book Authority. Joshi said Rangachari, the Indian ambassador to Germany, had taken interest in Indian language works being projected at the Frankfurt fair.
The Times of India
Dharwad: The president of Karnataka State Publishers Association, Ramakant Joshi, has urged the state government to get important literary works in Kannada translated and exhibit them at the 58th Frankfurt book fair scheduled to be held in Germany in October 2006.
Joshi told reporters here, after 20 years, India has been invited to participate in the international book fair as a guest of honour. The National Book Trust and Federation of Indian Publishers have appealed to the Indian publishers to get important works translated.
The last date for booking space in the Indian Pavilion is August 31, 2005. Joshi said the government should get one work each of seven Jnanapith awardees from Karnataka translated into German language, publish them and display it at the Frankfurt book fair. Totally, 10 to 15 books can be translated, he said.
Two famous Kannada writers, a reputed publisher and the chairman of Kannada Book Authority should be sent to the Frankfurt book fair.
He said he had approached the director of department and Kannada and Culture and chairman of Kannada Book Authority. Joshi said Rangachari, the Indian ambassador to Germany, had taken interest in Indian language works being projected at the Frankfurt fair.
Pick-up facility from old bus stand may be withdrawn
Pick-up facility from old bus stand may be withdrawn
The Hindu
HUBLI: The North-West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC) has decided to withdraw the pick-up and dropping facility for passengers to and from the old bus stand complex in Hubli near Rani Kittur Chennamma Circle. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the City Infrastructure Improvement Committee here recently.
The committee decided at the meeting chaired by Deputy Commissioner Gourav Gupta to stop the facility from the middle of September and move the Dharwad city bus stand to the new premises on the National Highway. P. Manivannan, Commissioner of the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation, who holds additional charge as Managing Director of the NWKRTC, also attended the meeting. Mr. Manivannan was not available for comments.
The dilemma of bus passengers began when the new bus stand located at Gokul on the western fringe of Hubli was commissioned during the fag-end of the J.H. Patil regime in April 1999.
The NWKRTC authorities shifted all mofussil bus operations to the new venue. Bus passengers found the new arrangement cumbersome and inconvenient as the new bus stand is not in the heart of the city. Also, the facilities at the new bus stand were woefully inadequate and continue to be so.
Furore
This led to a furore with people demanding that the bus stand be shifted back to the old venue. Also, private operators made hay by cashing in on the inconvenience of the travellers. The NWKRTC was forced to introduce the pick-up facility from the old bus stand.
This proved to be mutually beneficial as the passengers found it inconvenient to board buses from the old bus stand, which is centrally located and well-connected. The NWKRTC, to its surprise, found that it could make good its loss of income necessitated by the change of venue of the bus stand.
K.S. Sharma, president of the Akhila Karnataka Rajya Raste Sarige Mahamandala, is critical of the move and described it as retrograde.
Campaign
Prof. Sharma said it is because of the campaign carried out by his organisation that the management was forced to introduce the pick-up facility for passengers.
This increased the revenue of the corporation by Rs. 1 lakh a day from Hubli alone, he said.
The NWKRTC, which has already yielded ground to private operators as far as city services is concerned, will further lose if the pick up facility is withdrawn.
The move on the part of the NWKRTC to run shuttle services between the old and the new bus stand for the convenience of mofussil travellers is also impractical as none of the passengers saddled with luggage will be in a position to travel on their own.
Prof. Sharma said his organisation will take up the issue with the Transport Minister soon.
The Hindu
HUBLI: The North-West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC) has decided to withdraw the pick-up and dropping facility for passengers to and from the old bus stand complex in Hubli near Rani Kittur Chennamma Circle. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the City Infrastructure Improvement Committee here recently.
The committee decided at the meeting chaired by Deputy Commissioner Gourav Gupta to stop the facility from the middle of September and move the Dharwad city bus stand to the new premises on the National Highway. P. Manivannan, Commissioner of the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation, who holds additional charge as Managing Director of the NWKRTC, also attended the meeting. Mr. Manivannan was not available for comments.
The dilemma of bus passengers began when the new bus stand located at Gokul on the western fringe of Hubli was commissioned during the fag-end of the J.H. Patil regime in April 1999.
The NWKRTC authorities shifted all mofussil bus operations to the new venue. Bus passengers found the new arrangement cumbersome and inconvenient as the new bus stand is not in the heart of the city. Also, the facilities at the new bus stand were woefully inadequate and continue to be so.
Furore
This led to a furore with people demanding that the bus stand be shifted back to the old venue. Also, private operators made hay by cashing in on the inconvenience of the travellers. The NWKRTC was forced to introduce the pick-up facility from the old bus stand.
This proved to be mutually beneficial as the passengers found it inconvenient to board buses from the old bus stand, which is centrally located and well-connected. The NWKRTC, to its surprise, found that it could make good its loss of income necessitated by the change of venue of the bus stand.
K.S. Sharma, president of the Akhila Karnataka Rajya Raste Sarige Mahamandala, is critical of the move and described it as retrograde.
Campaign
Prof. Sharma said it is because of the campaign carried out by his organisation that the management was forced to introduce the pick-up facility for passengers.
This increased the revenue of the corporation by Rs. 1 lakh a day from Hubli alone, he said.
The NWKRTC, which has already yielded ground to private operators as far as city services is concerned, will further lose if the pick up facility is withdrawn.
The move on the part of the NWKRTC to run shuttle services between the old and the new bus stand for the convenience of mofussil travellers is also impractical as none of the passengers saddled with luggage will be in a position to travel on their own.
Prof. Sharma said his organisation will take up the issue with the Transport Minister soon.
Demolition drive passes off peacefully
Demolition drive passes off peacefully
The Hindu
LAST-DITCH EFFORTS: A man salvaging whatever he can after a portion of his bookshop was demolished in Hubli on Thursday. (Right) A woman searching for her belongings amidst the debris of her shop.
HUBLI: The demolition of encroachments by the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation entered the second day on Thursday with several encroachments in Hubli city being razed to the ground.
The focus on the penultimate day of the operations was on the stretch from Durgadbail to the Bhandiwad mosque in the sensitive Shah Bazaar area, which has many encroachments on either side of the road, and the city bus terminus close by.
Barring old buildings, none of the buildings that have come up on the roadside remained out of the purview of demolition. The rampant encroachments were evident from the fact that at one time, six earth-moving machines were at work on the road tackling encroachments on either side of the road simultaneously. It took more than two hours to cover the two-furlong Shah Bazaar.
The corporation authorities found that drains on either side of the road ran zigzag depending on the encroachments. It appeared that the owners of the buildings had changed the path of the drains. While the demolition squad did find the original drains at some places, there was no sign of them at other places.
The operation at the terminus as well as Shah Bazaar evoked a lot of interest among people. Many bystanders as well as owners of the buildings had assembled at the two places. The police had a tough time keeping the people at bay.
At one time, it looked as though the crowd was getting restive, and the police had to disperse people to defuse the situation. A woman corporator of the Congress tried in vain to intervene on behalf of some shopkeepers.
Sigh of relief
The police with whom she argued asked her to raise the issue with the Commissioner of the corporation. Everybody heaved a sigh of relief when the operation ended peaceful.
The entire area was strewn with debris waiting to be lifted by the demolition crew.
Commissioner of the corporation P. Manivanann, who supervised the operation along with Commissioner of Police Narayan Nadumani, said the first task of the corporation after the demolition drive is over is to build footpaths. The corporation will also take action against complexes which have violated rules, he warned.
The Hindu
LAST-DITCH EFFORTS: A man salvaging whatever he can after a portion of his bookshop was demolished in Hubli on Thursday. (Right) A woman searching for her belongings amidst the debris of her shop.
HUBLI: The demolition of encroachments by the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation entered the second day on Thursday with several encroachments in Hubli city being razed to the ground.
The focus on the penultimate day of the operations was on the stretch from Durgadbail to the Bhandiwad mosque in the sensitive Shah Bazaar area, which has many encroachments on either side of the road, and the city bus terminus close by.
Barring old buildings, none of the buildings that have come up on the roadside remained out of the purview of demolition. The rampant encroachments were evident from the fact that at one time, six earth-moving machines were at work on the road tackling encroachments on either side of the road simultaneously. It took more than two hours to cover the two-furlong Shah Bazaar.
The corporation authorities found that drains on either side of the road ran zigzag depending on the encroachments. It appeared that the owners of the buildings had changed the path of the drains. While the demolition squad did find the original drains at some places, there was no sign of them at other places.
The operation at the terminus as well as Shah Bazaar evoked a lot of interest among people. Many bystanders as well as owners of the buildings had assembled at the two places. The police had a tough time keeping the people at bay.
At one time, it looked as though the crowd was getting restive, and the police had to disperse people to defuse the situation. A woman corporator of the Congress tried in vain to intervene on behalf of some shopkeepers.
Sigh of relief
The police with whom she argued asked her to raise the issue with the Commissioner of the corporation. Everybody heaved a sigh of relief when the operation ended peaceful.
The entire area was strewn with debris waiting to be lifted by the demolition crew.
Commissioner of the corporation P. Manivanann, who supervised the operation along with Commissioner of Police Narayan Nadumani, said the first task of the corporation after the demolition drive is over is to build footpaths. The corporation will also take action against complexes which have violated rules, he warned.
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