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Panel at varsity to promote arts

Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE: Vice-Chancellor of Mangalore University K.M. Kaveriappa said here on Saturday that the university would constitute a committee at the University First Grade College here to promote Indian classical art in coordination with the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan and the Sangeetha Parishat.

He was replying to a felicitation given to him by the Sangeetha Parishat and the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan here.

Mr. Kaveriappa said there were not enough "pressure groups" in the coastal belt to promote Indian classical arts. He said the mini hall at the University First Grade College would be spruced up to organise concerts and dance programmes.

The university had introduced the credit-based semester scheme for its undergraduate courses from this academic year.

Ganesh Karnik, MLC, said he recently found that the State Department of Kannada and Culture did not utilise 40 per cent of its budgetary allocation in the last financial year though there was scope to organise cultural programmes.

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