Ambedkar Prathishthana promises to adopt 'backward village'

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August 28, 2012
Mangalore, August 28: Dr B R Ambedkar Prathishthana would adopt the backward village of Koyyur in Belthangady taluk for a period of five years and develop it into a model village, according to Prathishthana state president Shivappa Renkadaguthu.

Announcing this at a media conference here on Tuesday, Mr Renkadaguthu said that as part of the mission the Prathishthana would provide free electricity for five years to all the people in the village currently living without it. Shobha Karandlaje, Minister for Electricity who has been notified about this step, had given assurances of providing the necessary assistance, he said.

Fertilisers would be distributed free of cost to all the farmers in the village. Houses would be constructed for the homeless. Every underprivileged home would be provided with household items and clothes. A medical practitioner would be appointed to the village along with an ambulance, he said.

Mr Shivappa said that the project would be inaugurated by RSS leader Dr Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat. Along with Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, five former Chief Ministers of the State D V Sadananda Gowda, B S Yeddyurappa, S M Krishna, H D Kumaraswamy and M Veerappa Moily would also participate in the event, he said.

But he could not furbish information as to how funds would be raised to undertake such a project; nor could he specify when the project would be launched. The inauguration would be held within a month, he said.

“The village of Koyyur will be developed in a way that it would prove as an example to all existing backward villages. Presently, drinking water is being supplied free of cost to the Gram Panchayat from my land. A request will be made to the government to facilitate the supply of free water to the entire village in future,” he said.

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Bengaluru, Jan 19: Australia has conferred its highest civilian honour, the Order of Australia honour, on Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw for her contribution towards advancing the country's relationship with India.

Australia's High Commissioner to India Harinder Sidhu invested Mazumdar-Shaw as an Honorary Member within the Order of Australia (AM) in the General Division at a ceremony in Bengaluru on Friday, the Australian High Commission said in a statement.

An alumnus of Federation University Australia, Mazumdar-Shaw is the founder of Biocon, one of India's largest bio-pharmaceutical companies.

She contributes immensely to promoting women in STEM through the joint research programmes developed between Biocon and Deakin University, Australia, as part of her deep and long-standing commitment to gender equality, the statement said.

Mazumdar-Shaw - an Australian Global Alumni Ambassador - is also recognised for her sustained and significant contribution to industry academia collaboration between Australia and India, it said.

The ceremony was attended by representatives from Indian and Australian business, the diplomatic corps, and family, friends and peers of Mazumdar-Shaw, the statement said.

Speaking at the event, Sidhu said, "Dr Mazumdar-Shaw is a tireless champion of the commercial, educational, and people-to-people links between our two countries, and this award recognises her commitment to progressing the Australia-India partnership."

Honorary appointments in the Order of Australia are made to foreign nationals who have made an outstanding contribution to Australia or humanity at large.

Mazumdar-Shaw is the fourth Indian citizen to be awarded Australia's highest civilian honour.

This follows the conferment of superstar batsman Sachin Tendulkar in 2012, Former Attorney General of India Soli Jehangir Sorabjee in 2006, and Mother Teresa of Kolkata (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) in 1982.

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