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Media should project positives, not negatives: Dr V S Acharya

March 20, 2011
Mangalore, March 20: Dr. Vedavyas Srinivas Acharya, State Minister for Higher Education, has urged the media to be positive, factual and a catalyst for development.


He was addressing media persons at Press Club here on Sunday after presenting 'Pa Go Memorial Award 2010' to Laxmi Machina, a journalist with Udayavani daily, Belthangady.



The award, instituted by the Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists' Union (DKWJ), comes with Rs. 5,001 in cash, a citation and a memento.



Machina has been chosen for the award for his report titled “Baanjarumale Abhivruddi Kanasu Kadinalli Kayuttave Kanasugalu” published in the Kannada daily on August, 26, 2010.


Stating that media should always create positive vibes among readers, Dr Acharya said despite negativism prevailing everywhere, media should project the positive side of the issues. The concept of development needs to be changed. “We need to be developed in terms per capita, infrastructure and we have to compare ourselves with other developed countries,” he said.



Referring to UPCL controversy he said people resist the power projects like thermal power plant owing to temporary problems. But in reality, through power projects, India can achieve extensively, he said.



During the 70s the series of reports published about the problems of people in remote villages had opened the eyes of politicians, he said.



The minister also emphasized on the importance of free press, independent judiciary and clean and efficienct administration.



Receiving the award Laxmi Machina said journalists can write plenty of stories in the rural areas causing problems to the people. But the response of the officials concerned is important in such reports.



He also said the journalists should treat the problems of other people as their own. So that the depth of the problem faced by the people can be traced, he said.



The Founder President of P. Gopalakrishna Memorial Trust and Senior journalist Narasimha Rao, President of DKWJ Harsha, General Secretary Guruvappa Balepuni and others were present.



Anand Shetty delivered introductory speech. PB Harish compered the programme.

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On Wednesday night, the trio had entered the gold mine in Kolar district, about 100 km from Bengaluru, and fell in the pit after losing balance.

After inhaling the poisonous gas in the pit, they were asphyxiated to death, they said.

"It was a seven hour exercise after which we could bring out two bodies. Work is on to retrieve the third," a police officer told .

Police reached the spot after they were alerted by the accomplices of the deceased.

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Bengaluru, May 19: In the wake of assurance by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa to look into their demands, hotels and restaurants in Karnataka today decided to continue takeaway services for three more days.

Hotels were also exempted from the total lockdown on Sundays in Karnataka - under the state guidelines issued for Lockdown 4.0.

The Karnataka Pradesh Hotel and Restaurants' Association (KPHRA) had earlier threatened to stop takeaway services over refusal to allow dine-in facility in the fourth phase of the lockdown. 

B Chandrashekar Hebbar, president of KPHRA said that the CM urged hoteliers to wait for three days, assuring that a decision will be taken. 

"We appraised the government over the mounting losses by keeping just take-away services open. Noting that social distancing and other guidelines will be followed, we urged him to allow dine-in facility," he said.

The Association will wait three more days before discontinuing parcel services, Hebbar said. 

The government also provided relaxation to hotels from the total lockdown announced in Karnataka on Sundays, he said. 

A package for hotel employees such as cooks and waiters, along the lines of those announced for farmers, cab drivers and weavers, was also sought in a petition submitted to the chief minister.

In fact the state government had expressed its willingness to open hotels under the Lockdown 4.0, subject to restrictions. However, the central guidelines do not allow dine-in services.

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