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Thursday, Oct 14, 2004

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Relief for many colleges

SEVERAL COLLEGES in Kolar and Bangalore Rural districts, which did not like the idea of associating with the new Tumkur University, can now relax.

With the promulgation of Ordinance No. 1 of 2004 by the Governor, T.N. Chaturvedi, all these colleges will now be under the Bangalore University.

Earlier, only colleges in Bangalore Urban district and Hoskote and Kanakpura taluks of Bangalore Rural district were attached to the Bangalore University.

On August 12, Bangalore University had issued a notification inviting the new colleges for grant of fresh affiliation, renewal of application, enhancement of intake and additional courses for the academic year 2005-06. The last date for them has now been extended to October 26 by the university.

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THE GULBARGA University Vice-Chancellor, V.B. Coutinho, recently delivered a lecture at the city's C.M.R. Law School, where he pointed out the challenges posed by the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

His concern was to see the WTO forum from the perspective of hope to protect India's intellectual wealth.

He pointed out the individual responsibility and precautions that India had to take, especially in the service sector and educational sector with more than 304 universities.

Sabitha Ramamurthy, President, Jnanadhara Trust, presided over the function.

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DR. K.K. SEETHAMMA, Professor of Economics, Bangalore University, has been invited to pursue joint research with other international scholars by the School of Business and Economics of the Indiana University North-West, U.S. She will work on the emerging markets in the world with special focus on India.

While in the U.S., Dr. Seethamma will present a paper on "Economies in transition and globalisation" at Nashville, Tennessee, and another on "Emerging markets, capital inflows and growth:

India — Is it liberalisation too late and too little?" at New Orleans, Louisiana.

PANELS ON print, television, advertising, and an independent panel found rapt listeners at a national seminar on "Media and social responsibility" organised recently by the Christ College. Doordarshan's Bangalore director, Mahesh Joshi, appealed to the assembled presspersons and students to be "pro-active, aggressive and result-oriented."

A print panellist, Sankarsan Thakur, Executive editor of Tehelka, drew attention to the two main concerns in today's print media — "the crises of choices and crises of competing truths." Acknowledging the difficulty of undertaking the role of social responsibility in a market-driven society, Mr. Thakur gave the example of Tehelka's struggle for survival.

He brought in the importance of choice and challenged debate with his rhetoric "Do we start being a commercially viable production or die the death trying to fulfil social responsibility?"

Another pressperson, R. Shankar, was optimistic that the print media had still not given up on social responsibility. But his question was on how to continue maintaining that trust. It was up to the future upholders of media — the students. Stephen David, India Today journalist, felt that social responsibility was a two-way traffic. "Consumers have to play their part in making sure the media plays its part," he said.

Sayed Kaleem from the University of Mysore Audio Visual Research Centre stressed that television should be the servant of the family and not the master.

About radio, Suresh Venkat, Radio City Programme Director, Suresh Venkat, said, the media, like any business, had to make profits to ensure that they met their responsibility to their audiences, employees and to advertisers. Dalit Voice editor, V.T. Rajshekhar felt the media was collapsing. "Something is seriously going wrong with both the readers and the media," he said, "everything has been reduced to trivia and trash."

Rasheed Kappan

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