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CM announces model colleges in 20 districts

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November 19, 2011

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Nitte, November 19: Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda announced that as an attempt towards preparing students for taking up higher education, the State government has decided to set up model colleges at 20 districts in the state at the total cost of Rs 180 crore.

Speaking after inaugurating the silver jubilee functions of NMAM Institute of Technology here on Friday, he said that the State government has also submitted a proposal to University Grants Commission (UGC) in this regard. He said the enrollment to higher education in the country is merely 12 per cent and there is a need to increase the percentage to 25 per cent, he added.

Emphasising the government's efforts in giving priority to higher education, the chief minister said that the government has given permission to set up 55 polytechnique institutes in private sector in the State. The government has laid more stress on technical education. Besides, the government has prepared the action plan for making more students coming out from technical institutes employable. Only 25 per cent students coming out from these institutes are employable at present, he said.

Bio-fuel

Gowda said Karnataka has become number one state in the entire nation in terms of experiment and usage of bio-fuel. The government has already set up 16 such bio-fuel Information demonstration centers including the one inaugurated here today.

He informed that the government is proposed to set up such centers in another 15 places in the next 6 months period. The government has set up skill development centers in 22 technical institutes in the State as part of the priority given by the government for skill development programme. The programme is taken up under “Suvarna Kaushalya Abhivriddhi Yojana,” he informed.

He said that during the last three years, the government has set up 43 new polytechnic institutes and the vacancies in 476 polytechnique colleges have been filled up. The salaries of the part time lecturers in both polytechniques and engineering colleges have been hiked. The salary of the part time lecturers in polytechnique colleges has been increased to Rs 7,800 from Rs 1,800 and that of engineering colleges is hiked to Rs 10,000, he added.

Stating that the quality education is the need of hour, the chief minister assured that attempts will be made to make available the amenities of quality education to the students.

Digital valuation

Speaking on the occasion, VTU Belgaum Vice Chancellor Dr H Maheshappa informed that VTU has shifted to digital valuation process as against the earlier idea of manual valuation. Measures are taken to distribute the question papers directly to the colleges concerned 15 minutes before the commencement of the examination, he said.

All sorts of measures are taken in an attempt to maintain transparency in the entire process of examination and valuation. Maheshappa informed that VTU is willing to open a regional centre in the erstwhile Dakshina Kannada district, if government comes forward to provide the land, he added.

Karnataka Bio-fuel Development Board (KBDB) (Bangalore) Chairman Y B Ramakrishna opined that as many as 34 per cent of total budget outlay is going towards the import of crude oil. He said in this backdrop, there is a need to go for alternative fuel system to complete the demand.

The bio-fuel policy envisioned by the Karnataka government stands number one in the entire country. As many as 3 crore bio-fuel saplings have been planted in about 75,000 hectares of waste land since 3 years. Measures will be taken to introduce bio-fuel in as many as 18,000 buses run by the government of Karnataka, he added.He said plans have been chalked out to introduce bio-fuel as the back up power in the ground transport at Bangalore International Airport within one month, he said.

The Chief Minister also inaugurated Vocational Centre and Udupi district Bio-Fuel Information Demonstration Centre, sponsored by Karnataka State Bio-Fuel Development Board (KSBFDB) at the Institute on the occasion.

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March 8,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 8: The economic slowdown in the country had a cascading effect on Karnataka, as its growth rate for outgoing fiscal 2019-20 is projected to be 6.8 per cent against 7.8 per cent in the last fiscal (2018-19), a senior official said on Saturday.

"The Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) is estimated to be 1 per cent less at 6.8 per cent for this fiscal from 7.8 per cent in the last fiscal due to slowdown in manufacturing (industry) and services sectors," an official of the state finance department told media.

Though the agriculture sector has revived from 1.6 per dent in the drought-hit last fiscal (2018-19) to register 3.9 per cent this fiscal, growth rates of industries and services will be 4.8 per cent and 7.9 per cent for 2019-20 against 5.6 per cent and 9.8 per cent respectively in 2018-19.

"The GSDP is projected to grow at 6.3 per cent in the ensuing fiscal of 2020-21 due to continued slowdown in the national economy," the official hinted.

According to the state's economic survey for 2019-20, the farm sector grew more than double to 3.9 per cent from 1.6 per cent a year ago due to increase in the production of foodgrains, dairy products and fish catch.

Foodgrain production across the state rose to 136 lakh tonnes from 128 lakh tonnes a year ago, the survey revealed.

"In line with the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate decline, Karnataka's GSDP has declined from a high of 13.3 per cent in 2016-17 to a low of 6.8 per cent in 2019-20.

"The GSDP has declined from a double-digit growth of 10.8 per cent in 2017-18 to 7.8 per cent in 2018-19 and 6.8 per cent in 2019-20," the survey pointed out.

The survey has adopted the all-India growth rate for the services sector growth in the state, which reflects the impact of slowdown in the key sector.

At current prices, the southern state's GSDP is expected to be Rs 16,99,115 crore (budget estimates) with a 10 per cent growth rate in the next fiscal (2020-21).

"Real estate, professional services and ownership of dwellings contributed 35.31 per cent to the GSDP in 2019-20, followed by manufacturing with 15.32 per cent, trade and repair services 9.51 per cent and crops 7.44 per cent," said the survey findings.

Per capital income in the state at current prices is estimated to be Rs 2,31,246 in 2019-20, an increase of 8.8 per cent from Rs 2,12,477 in 2018-19.

"The per capita income in the state is 58.4 per cent more than that of all-India rate at Rs 1,35,050 in this fiscal," the survey added.

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February 18,2020

Mangaluru, Feb 18: Customs at International Airport here have seized Rs 58.95 lakh worth gold in two incidents and arrested two smugglers, Customs Commissionerate said on Monday.

According to the department, two men have been arrested by the customs officials in two separate incidents last evening for attempting to smuggle gold into the country valuing over Rs. 58.95 Lakhs.

In the first incident, Muhammed Swalih Chappathodi, 22, hailing from Malappuram, Kerala who arrived from Dubai by Spice jet flight concealed capsules containing gold in paste form inside his rectum which upon purification resulted in the recovery of 797 gm of 24 karats valued at Rs.32,35,820.

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June 21,2020

India on Sunday witnessed annual solar eclipse or 'surya grahan' 2020, the third eclipse even for this year after first two lunar eclipses took place in January and June and the last annual solar eclipse of this decade.

The solar eclipse started from around 9 a.m. across the Indian map as the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth came in a straight line, and the country witnessed the 'deepest' annular solar eclipse in over a century.

Astrologers said it a fourth super rare hybrid eclipse which is a mix between an annular and total solar eclipse.

Areas like Hyderabad, Chennai, Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Delhi, Patna, Shillong and more witnessed a partial phase of the annular solar eclipse from 9 a.m.

In the eclipse, the distance of the Moon and Earth will be larger than usual which means the moon will not be able to cover up the sun fully and will leave out the borders of the sun - giving an appearance of a "Ring of Fire".

Press Information Bureau in a tweet informed that it is the last annular solar eclipse in India of this decade.

People can catch glimpse of the partially covered sun between 10 a.m. and 2.28 p.m. as per the time differing as locations in India. The eclipse will continue for over three hours covering 84 per cent Sun.

There are three types of solar eclipses - total, partial, and annular.

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