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Kannada question bank for civil services exam

Special Correspondent

The question bank will be ready in two months
‘Kannada has a pan-South Indian presence’

BANGALORE: The Kannada Development Authority (KDA) will develop a Kannada question and answer bank to help candidates who wish to write their civil services (IAS and IPS) in Kannada, according to authority chairman G.S. Siddalingaiah.

Mr. Siddalingaiah gave this assurance to the students who aspire to take up civil services in Kannada at a function organised by the KDA to honour Kannada-medium students who have excelled in their respective academic programmes while writing their examinations in Kannada .

The KDA honoured 223 students of Kannada medium from SSLC to Ph. D level coming from throughout the State and some neighbouring States.

Dr. Siddalingaiah said the question bank in English were ready with the KDA which would be translated into Kannada and printed in less than two months and delivered to the stands throughout the State and in the border areas of Karnataka. He said Kannada as an academic language had found deep roots in interior parts of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu which meant that it was no longer a language confined to the borders of Karnataka but was a pan-South Indian language.

He said the KDA considered it a honour to help students who wanted to write their civil services examinations in Kannada.

The Principal Secretary to the Department of Kannada, Culture, Information and Tourism, I.M. Vittalamurthy, said that Kannada had emerged as a language that could spread new age information such as technology, science and many other subjects contrary to the popular belief that only English had such capabilities.

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