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From the Districts

By Our Special Correspondent

Award for Doordarshan kendra

GULBARGA NOV. 4.NOV. 4.NOV. 4 The Gulbarga Doordarshan Kendra has won the national award in the category of "public service broadcasting" for the programme entitled `Tiranga Yatra' produced by Chandrakant S. Barve, director of the kendra. A press release from Prasar Bharati said here today that the award would be presented in New Delhi on November 12. This is the first time that the kendra has bagged the national award. Mr. Barve had earlier received national awards during his tenure at Panaji and Rajkot Doordarshan kendras.

MIT to host national meet

By Our Staff Correspondent

Manipal NOV. 4.NOV. 4.NOV. 4 The Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) is organising the first national-level Control Instrumentation System Conference (CISCON) here from Friday. Speaking to presspersons on Thursday, the Joint Director of MIT, B.S. Bairy, said that about 100 delegates from different parts of the country would participate in this conference. As many as 88 papers would be presented at the two-day meet. These papers would cover diverse areas such as computer applications, modelling and simulation, automation, future trends and challenges in process instrumentation, process control, telecommunication network, biomedical instrumentation, etc. Papers had been received from the IITs, the IISc., and well-known organisations such as Techno Lab, Arts Agencies, Malayala Manorama, SAIL, BEML, AIML etc. The conference would be inaugurated by the Vice-Chancellor of MAHE, H.S. Ballal. The Director of MIT, B.S. Prabhu would preside over the inaugural function. The Registrar of MAHE, S. Gurumadhav Rao, would be the chief guest.

Cooperative Week celebrations

By Our Staff Correspondent

Belgaum NOV. 4.NOV. 4.NOV. 4 The 51st All-India Cooperative Week, which will be observed all over the State, will be inaugurated by the Chief Minister, N. Dharam Singh, here on November 14. This was announced by the Minister for Agriculture and district in charge, Prakash B. Hukkeri, after an official meeting here on Wednesday. Those present included the MLAs Ramesh Kudachi and Abhay Kumar Patil; the zilla panchayat president, S.F. Doddagoudar; the Registrar of Cooperative Societies, K.S. Gopalkrishna Gowda; the Deputy Commissioner, M. Maheswar Rao; and the Chief Executive Officer of the zilla panchayat, M.E. Shivalingamurthy. The inaugural function of the programme would be held at the district stadium and the Deputy Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah, would also be present, Mr. Hukkeri said. Committees had been constituted to ensure that the event was organised in a meaningful manner. On the inaugural day, it had been planned to honour the best cooperative institutions with the `Sahakara Ratna' award. November 15 would be observed as `Qualitative Management, Self-reliance, and Model Cooperative Day' in Haveri. November 16 would be observed as `Economic Empowerment Day' in Madikeri, November 17 as `Cooperative Housing and Healthy Life' in Bangalore, November 18 as `Cooperative Marketing and Consumers' Day' in Kolar, November 19 as `Significance of Cooperative Movement in the Development of Village and Towns' in Chitradurga, and November 20 as `Cooperative Leadership' in Gulbarga.

`Act against tainted officials'

By Our Staff Correspondent

TUMKUR NOV. 4.NOV. 4.NOV. 4 People, who had gathered at the taluk offices at Kunigal today when the Lokayukta trapped a Revenue official, urged the Government to act promptly on the Lokayukta's detections. The gathering began an agitation demanding that the Government act tough against the officials trapped by the Lokayukta. The Lokayukta inspector, Rangaswamy, trapped the Revenue official, H. Rangabhovi, when he was allegedly accepting a bribe from a farmer, Chikkanna, of Sundarakoppa. Mr. Rangaswamy said the farmer had bought land from Puttamma in January 2003, but the Revenue official did not change the khata in his name following which the farmer approached a court, which ordered that the khata be changed to his name. The official remained adamant even after the court ruling and was demanding a bribe for changing the khata, he said. The people, who had gathered in large numbers, raised slogans against the Revenue officials. They said that Mr. Rangabhovi was "caught by Lokayukta twice in the recent past, but he had managed to escape punishment." Sources in the Lokayukta confirmed this.

Puttappa threatens agitation

HUBLI NOV. 4.NOV. 4.NOV. 4 Patil Puttappa, journalist and chairman of the Karnataka Abhivriddhi Vedike, today held out a threat on launching a Statewide agitation against the continued injustice being done to Kannadigas in recruitment in the Railways. Mr. Puttappa told presspersons here that non-Kannadigas were being recruited to the posts in the South Western Railway even for `C' and `D' posts in clear violation of the rules that stipulate that the local people should be given preference. Mr. Puttappa said that he was getting in touch with pro-Kannada organisations and activists in Bangalore to chalk out a plan for agitation, which would be finalised in 10 days. This would be a struggle not against the people of any State or linguistic denominations but mainly to safeguard the interests of the people of Karnataka who were being unjustly denied whatever was due to them. Mr. Puttappa said that regional language was not being used for tests conducted for recruitment, though it was mandatory. However, languages other than Kannada were being used, he said. He said that the time had come for the State to press for the transfer of the Railway Recruitment Board office from Bangalore to Hubli. Mr. Puttappa was critical of the ad hocism with South Western Railway functioning without a full-fledged General Manager for more than four months as a result of which the regular development programmes were not being properly pursued and implemented.Nothing had been heard about the wagon manufacturing unit promised to be started here.

Conference of women lawyers

SHIMOGA NOV. 4.NOV. 4.NOV. 4 A regional conference of women lawyers will be held here on November 7 under the auspices of the Karnataka Federation of Women Lawyers. Giving this information to presspersons here on Thursday, the chairperson of the reception committee, Manjula Devi, said that the meet would be inaugurated by N. Kumar, judge of the Karnataka High Court. The MLC, Mir Azeez Ahmed, will be the chief guest and the District and Sessions Judge, V.R. Siriyannavar and the president of the Shimoga Bar Association, K. Basappa Gowda, would be present. The acting Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, S.R. Nayak, will address the valedictory function and the member of the Karnataka State Bar Council, A.T. Belliappa, will be chief guest. Ms. Manjula Devi said that while the first session would be addressed by Mr. Kumar on the Karnataka Rent Act 1999 the second session would be addressed by Hemalatha Mahishi, an advocate of Bangalore, on sexual harassment at the work place.

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