177 minority schools in Mangalore; highest in state

June 18, 2014

Mangalore, Jun 18: The coastal district of Dakshina Kannada, which is known as one of the educational hubs in India, is also a centre of minority education.

akid According to the statistics provided by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), Mangalore accounts for the highest number of minority schools in Karnataka.

At present, there are 1,059 minority schools, of which 177 schools are in Mangalore. Bangalore Urban district has 160 minority schools.

With the State Cabinet deciding to change the criterion for granting minority status to primary schools, hundreds of schools across the State are likely to become eligible for minority status in the coming months.

This would also mean that the number of seats for children belonging to underprivileged sections in private schools under the RTE would reduce as minority schools are exempted from admitting students under the quota.

A large number of applications of schools, which had applied for minority status were put on the back burner as the definition on minority schools was stayed by the High Court of Karnataka.

The BJP government in July 2012 had notified that a minority school should have 75 per cent intake of students of a notified minority community. On June 13 this year, the State Cabinet decided to reduce the intake to 25 per cent.

Explaining the future course of action, Mohammad Mohsin, Commissioner for Public Instruction, said that once the new guidelines were drafted, the stay order issued by the High Court could be vacated. “Following that, the Directorate of Urdu and Other Minority Language Institutions under the Department of Public Instruction will examine all the parameters and give minority status tag to schools that are eligible,” he said.

Meanwhile, D.Z. Gulshad Ahmed, president of the Karnataka Unaided Minorities Schools Management Association welcomed the new rule. However, he said there was a need for the government to be wary while awarding minority status as several schools now wanted to claim minority status to be exempted from providing admission under the RTE quota.

However, Karnataka Unaided Schools Management Association (KUSMA) termed the new rule unsatisfactory. In a press release, KUSMA said the new definition would only recognise those minorities which are sizeable in any given locality and it would neglect the smaller minorities.

“Such discrimination against smaller minorities would plainly be unconstitutional,” the release said.

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Tourism takes a hit in coffee land Kodagu

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February 23,2020

Madikeri, Feb 23: Back-to-back floods and landslides in the last two years, has led to a fall in the number of tourists coming to the coffee-growing region of Kodagu, forcing the district administration to intervene and take confidence-building measures, telling tourists that Kodagu was safe to visit.

According to the statistics of the Karnataka State Tourism Department, Kodagu recorded a moderately good number of tourists in 2018 and 2019, the years that the district witnessed devastating floods and landslides.

The Department’s statistics reveal that 17 lakh tourists visited Kodagu in 2018 and 18 lakh in 2019. This means the flood-ravaged years did attract tourists contrary to what the stakeholders had claimed.

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Karnataka: PM Modi disburses Rs 12K cr to 6 cr farmers

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January 2,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 2: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday slammed states, which have not enrolled with the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Yojana (PMKSY), saying that such petty politics has done great damage to the farming community.

"I expect that in the new year, those states which are not associated with the Kisan Samman Yojana will at least become a part of it this year," the Prime Minister said at a function in Tumakuru where he disbursed Rs 12,000 crore to six crore beneficiaries under the government scheme in one-go.

Also, he gave away the Krishi Karman Award to the selected farmers and distributed fishing equipment to the chosen ones on the occasion. Modi said political considerations by the state governments in implementing the PMKSY has caused severe loss to the poor farmers.

"Such politics has never strengthened the farmers. Our government understood your (farmers') needs, requirements and your aspirations and accordingly tried to implement the schemes," said Modi.

He further said his government never saw agriculture in fragments but in its totality. Claiming his government has ensured that the entire money reached the poor beneficiaries, Prime Minister hit out at the previous governments, when middlemen ruled the roost.

"There was a time when a rupee was rolled out (by the government) for the poor person, only 15 paise would reach him. The middlemen would pocket the remaining 85 paise. "Today, whatever money is dispatched from Delhi, the entire amount directly reaches the bank account of the beneficiary," he said.

He told the gathering about the various initiatives taken by his government to improve the agriculture sector such as completing the pending irrigation schemes, soil health card and 100 per cent neem-coating in urea.

Due to the initiatives of the government, agriculture production has gone up, he said. Speaking about measures in the fisheries sector, the Prime Minister said the sector has been promoted in the villages, financial help given to fishermen, modernisation of boats and building fisheries-related infrastructure have been done.

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