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Seminar focuses on problems plaguing Bijapur

Bijapur: The Karnataka State Women’s University, which has taken up the task of preparing an action plan for the zilla panchayat, organised a seminar on “My dream Bijapur” at its premises here recently.

Speaking after inaugurating the seminar, Vice-Chancellor Geeta Bali said that when other cities and town had achieved tremendous development, women in Bijapur had no toilets and they lacked education. She appealed scholars, educationists and elected representatives to suggest solutions to such problems.

Criticising the Health Department, L.H. Bidari said that the number of dengue cases reported in 2005 were 85. In the subsequent years, the number should have come down.

But in 2007, 228 cases were reported. He expressed displeasure over the increasing mother and child mortality rate and alleged that the department had no statistics on health related problems in the district.

On the unemployment problem in the district, S.S. Bilagipeera said that more industrial training institutes should be opened to tackle it. At least two more sugar factories, one in Indi and Sindagi, should be established to crush sugarcane grown by farmers.

Plantation of trees should be taken up on barren land in the district, he added.

S.S. Kanamadi said that immediate and long-term measures to stop migration of people from the district should be taken.

Steps should be taken to remove silt from the Doni and implement the tank-filling project.

The District Hospital should be upgraded and modern medical facilities should be made available to the people, he added.

The former Chairman of the Bijapur Development Authority Riyaz Farooqui said that polytechnics to meet the technical education demands of rural areas should be established in the district.

Neeru Beku Samiti president Vishwanath Bhavi said priority should be given to tackle the drinking water problem in the city.

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