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Govt keen on increasing enrolment in colleges, says Acharya

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February 28, 2011

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Mangalore, February 28: Minister for Higher Education V.S. Acharya said here on Sunday that the Government is planning to increase the enrolment ratio of students between the age group of 18 to 23 in colleges from 13 per cent to 15 per cent by 2015 and to 30 per cent by 2020.
Dr. Acharya was addressing a gathering at the graduation day of the Karavali Group of Colleges. Dr. Acharya said 13 per cent of the youth in 18-23 age group were enrolled in 2,230 colleges in Karnataka.
The number of students who reached post-matriculation stage (that is, other than Degree but including PUC, ITI, polytechnics) was 25 lakh, a number which the Government wanted to increase to 50 lakh by 2020, he said. About 10 lakh students reached the undergraduate level in the State. The Government had set itself a target of increasing this to 20 lakh students by 2020, he said.
Dr. Acharya said the outlay for education had been increased from Rs. 4,400 crore last year to Rs. 12,280 crore this year. The State was being called “the knowledge hub of Asia,” he said.
Advising the students to learn continuously, he said: “Tune yourself to the fast changing world ,” he said. He said human resource was an important factor in developing any other resource. From two universities (Mysore and Karnataka) in the State in 1956, today there were 23 universities in addition to special universities such as Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) and the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), he said.

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June 2,2020

Tumkur, Jun 2: Karnataka Agriculture Minister BC Patil on Monday said that state will not be affected due to locust swarm as it has moved to other states.

"There will be no effect as locust insects diverted to other states after they came from Pakistan. We were also worried and were prepared to face it, luckily we will not be affected by insects," he said.

Locust is a type of grasshoppers and moves in large numbers and devastates crops. Several parts of Rajasthan including Ganganagar have reported locust attacks.

There is a prediction of another attack in June this year.

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March 31,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 31: With many departmental stores, shops and establishments insisting on people to wear masks, Karnataka government on Tuesday clarified that as a rule every one need not wear a mask.

The Commissionerate of Health and Family Welfare Services in an advisory said a person is suppose to wear mask only when he or she has symptoms of cold or cough or fever or any other respiratory problem.

It said a person who is caring for COVID-19 suspect or confirmed patient should wear mask. Also, a health worker who is attending to a patient with respiratory symptoms should wear a mask.

The advisory also noted that those treating or handling COVID-19 suspects or patients need to wear N95 mask, while others can wear triple layer surgical mask.

The advisory from the Commissionerate has come amid shops and establishments, also police on road insisting people to wear masks when they venture out.

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January 21,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 21: Controversial Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan will remain in state-syllabus textbooks in the next academic year (2020-21) too. But the government will form another committee to look at the subject afresh.

"Efforts are on to give textbooks and uniforms the day schools open next academic year. After a discussion with the CM, we decided to not make any changes in the textbooks for the upcoming academic year,"said primary and secondary education minister S Suresh Kumar.

No political angle, says minister

However, we will form a committee to look into it again,” said the minister.

Three months ago, Madikeri MLA Appachu Ranjan had written to the minister seeking removal of contents on Tipu Sultan from Karnataka state syllabus books of classes 6,7 and 10. The minister said: “Appachu Ranjan is a five-time MLA. When he sent a letter, it’s my duty to seek an opinion on it. There’s no political angle here.”

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