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Two teachers bag national, state awards

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September 5, 2011

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Uppinangady/Puttur, September 5: Two teachers from Dakshina Kannada district have made a mark in the national and state-level by winning Best Teachers Award.

Government PU College (Uppinangady) Mathematics and Science teacher Diwakar Acharya has won National-level Best Teacher Award for 2011. He will receive the award on Monday at New Delhi.

He has been in-charge vice principal of the college since 2008. He started Science Centre in 1999 and the centre has won district-level awards five times.

He has been creating awareness in the society by holding camps. He had won Best district-level award in 2008-09.

State-level award

Sarojini Shetty, headmistress of Menala higher primary school in Puttur taluk has bagged this year's state-level Best Teacher Award.

Starting her teaching career at Mulki Higher Primary School in 1972, she has taught hundreds of students till date.

After serving in Mulki for three years, she was transferred to Menala higher primary school in Nettanige Mudnur. However, after serving the school for several years, she was transferred to Nanya Government Higher Primary School in Madnoor. Two years ago, she was promoted as headmistress of Menala Higher Primary School. She has worked for the overall development of Nanya and Menala schools.

Recognising her role in the development of sports, cultural activities in the school, she was chosen for the state award. In fact, she had won Popular Teacher award in 2001-02 and District-level Best Teacher award in 2010-11.

She has also won state-level Best SDMC Secretary award as well. As a resource person in the field of education and a trainer, she has made a mark in literary field as well. She has written limericks, essays and articles. She was also involved in literacy campaign and adult education programmes.

Sarojini has been encouraging her students to get involved with extracurricular activities by staring health club, sports club, science club and arts club in her school. She was also involved in providing platform for the rural talents by organising programmes.

She was born to Kannada pandith Bhojarao of Kanthavara in 1953 and is the wife of retired head teacher of Alanthadka Higher Primary School V Nagappayya. Her one daughter is a software engineer in America and another is settled in Mangalore.

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July 8,2020

Mangaluru, Jul 8: A corporator and a staff in Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) have tested positive for the coronavirus. 

The woman corporator, who was under home quarantine for past few days ago, received her covid test report today. 

A staff of health department who works in MCC also tested positive for the covid-19. 

The woman corporator had recently attended a primary health centre meeting. A person who had attended the meeting was later tested positive. Hence the corporator was placed under home quarantine.

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March 28,2020

Kasaragod, Mar 28: A pregnant Bihari migrant woman in labour gave birth in an ambulance after the Karnataka police allegedly refused to allow the ambulance carrying her to cross the border road to Mangaluru to reach her hospital.

The border road was shut due to the lockdown. The woman used to consult a doctor in Mangaluru across the border.

As Karnataka police stopped the vehicle at the border in Talapady, saying no vehicle, including ambulances from Kerala, could be permitted to their state, the drivers decided to take the woman was taken to the general hospital here, but she went into labour and delivered a baby girl in the vehicle

Both the mother and baby are doing fine, authorities said.

Hailing from Patna in Bihar, 25-year-old Gowri Devi and her husband were working in a local plywood factory in this north Kerala district, from where the maximum number of coronavirus cases have been reported so far in the state.

Those living in the border towns and villages of Kasaragod are dependent on the hospitals in Mangaluru as it is nearer, local people said.

The ambulance drivers- Aslam and Musthafa- said they stopped the vehicle by the wayside, making it safe for the woman. The baby girl and the mother were soon shifted to the government general hospital here and both of them are safe and healthy, they said.

Local people complained that not only pregnant women, but even patients requiring daily dialysis and emergency cardiac and cancer treatment were being sent back by Karnataka.

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July 30,2020

Mangaluru, July 30: Medical doctor turned IAS officer K V Rajendra assumed charge as the 130th deputy commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district here today.

The 2013 batch Karnataka cadre officer succeeds Sindhu B Rupesh, who was transferred as Director of Electronic Delivery of Citizen Services (EDCS), Bengaluru. The outgoing DC welcomed the new DC in the presence of staff. 

Dr Rajendra said that he expects cooperation from all stakeholders in administering the district, amidst the mounting Covid-19 cases.

Rajendra, an alumnus of JJM Medical College, Davanagere, was serving as the CEO of Belagavi zilla panchayat before being posted as DC of this coastal district. 

Having served as assistant commissioner of Puttur sub-division for nearly a year from December 2015, Dr Rajendra, hails from Thirthahalli in Shivamogga district, had his probationary training in Bidar. He posted as CEO of Ballari ZP where he worked for nearly three till 21, 2019.

He also had a brief stint as assistant secretary in the department of fertiliser with the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers.

Sindhu who was the CEO of Udupi zilla panchayat had succeeded Sasikanth Senthil, who resigned from the Indian Administrative Service on September 6, 2019. She had taken charge on September 7, 2019.

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