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Sammelan adopts resolutions for development of Chamarajanagar

MYSORE: The two-day Chamarajanagar Kannada Sahitya Sammelan, which concluded on Tuesday, adopted eight resolutions for the development of the district. The resolutions included implementation of the Kabini 2nd Stage project and establishment of a janapada university.

The sammelan urged the State Government to pressure the Centre to grant classical language status to Kannada on the lines of Tamil. It resolved to urge the Centre to launch a FM radio station, which is a long-pending demand of the people of the region, and implement the Chamarajanagar-Mettupalyam Railway line project. The other resolutions are stopping granite quarrying in the district and establishing government ayurveda, nursing and medical colleges.

Participating in a seminar on agrarian crisis, agriculture scientist M. Mahadevappa underlined the importance of making agriculture a part of the curriculum to address the problems being faced by farmers. It was necessary to teach agriculture as a subject from the primary level itself, he said.

Speaking at a session on the impact of liberalisation on agriculture, K.C. Basavaraj of the University of Mysore blamed former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda for the agrarian crisis in the State. The amendment introduced by Mr. Deve Gowda to the Land Reforms Act, which paved the way for industrialists to acquire farmland for industrial purposes was the major reason for the crisis. “Mr. Deve Gowda, who claims himself a champion of farmers, took many decisions that are detrimental to the interests of farmers,” he said.

Opposing the Government’s initiative to set up a 1000-MW coal-based thermal power plant at Chamalapura, president of the sammelana Krishnamurthy Hanur said that the plant would affect the farmers of the Mysore region. He urged the Government to drop the project in the interests of society.

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