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Mangalore
By Raviprasad Kamila
MANGALORE, SEPT. 9. Activities of the Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy here continue to be affected owing to lack of funds. The academy's rental dues to the Mangalore City Corporation have mounted to over Rs. 2 lakhs. The academy's office is housed in the city corporation's main building here. The academy has not paid rent to the corporation since July 2002. The academy has to pay a monthly rent of Rs. 7,720 to the corporation. The total amount due to the corporation for 26 months (till August, 2004) stands at Rs. 2,00,720, sources in the academy said. The sources said that of the Rs. 6.5 lakhs annual budget allocated to the academy for 2004-05, the State Government had released only Rs. 1 lakh. The amount had been spent on the salary of employees. Of the total budget, funds had to be released on a quarterly basis in equal instalments.
Term
The sources said that the term of the academy would expire on December 18, 2004. The academy was set up on April 20, 1994. The terms of Karnataka Kodava Sahitya Academy, Karnataka Sahitya Academy, Karnataka Nataka Academy, Karnataka Janapada and Yakshagana Academy, Karnataka Urdu Academy, Karnataka Sangeetha and Nrithya Academy and Karnataka Lalithakala Academy had expired in June 2004, but the Government had not reconstituted them, the sources said. The term of the Karnataka Konkani Academy would end in October 2004 and term of the Karnataka Shilpakala Academy would end on December 11, 2004.
Annual budget
They said that the annual budget allocation of all those academies whose term expired in June 2004 had been fixed at Rs. 24 lakhs. In that, Rs. 14 lakhs was under Plan category and Rs. 10 lakhs under non-Plan category. A language academy was eligible to get funds under the non-Plan category once it completed 10 years. But the Tulu Sahitya Academy, even after completing 10 years, was not getting funds under the non-Plan category. When the Tulu, Konkani and Kodava Sahitya academies were established in April 1994, the then Chief Minister, M. Veerappa Moily, had announced an annual grant of Rs. 10 lakhs for each of them. However, this sum was granted only for a year. The grant was cut to Rs. 8 lakhs and then to Rs. 7 lakhs later. But the S.M. Krishna Government increased it to Rs. 14 lakhs in 2002-03. In that, the Government cut Rs. 2 lakhs for that year. In 2003-04, of the Rs. 14 lakhs annual allocation the Government cut Rs. 3 lakhs.
Grant reduced
For the current financial year, the allocation had been reduced to Rs. 6.5 lakhs from Rs. 14 lakhs. The sources said that the Tulu academy needed at least Rs. 5 lakhs for administrative purposes annually. Sources wondered whether the Government was considering the term of the Tulu academy as expired along with other academies though its term would expire in December.
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