The Hindu : From The Districts

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Tuesday, Mar 16, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka

From The Districts

Tiptur bandh total

By Our Staff Correspondent

TUMKUR MARCH 15. The bandh in Tiptur town of Tumkur district on Monday was total. It was called by the Farmers' Welfare Society in protest against, what its members described, "power crisis in over 30 villages in Tiptur taluk." Shops and business establishments remained closed. Vehicles, including buses, were not allowed to pass through the town. A large number of vehicles were stranded on the Bangalore-Honnavar Highway which passes through the town. However, schools and colleges were exempted from the bandh as examinations are in progress. Government offices recorded thin attendance. Nearly 3,000 farmers who came from villages gathered at Kodi Circle and from there they marched to the office of the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company and staged a dharna. M. Mallikarjuna Reddy, Assistant Executive Engineer of BESCOM, told farmers that a line was being planned from the Tiptur main station to augment power supply to the rural feeders 3 and 4. After the line was commissioned, power supply to over 40 villages in Tiptur taluk would improve. A farmers' delegation met the Assistant Commissioner (Tiptur), S.P. Shadakshara Swamy, and presented a memorandum to the Government. The agitators said the villages had been facing power crisis for the past two years. Villages did not have power during the night. In view of the agitation security in the town was tight.

Workshop on labour laws

MANGALORE MARCH 15. The National Institute of Personnel Management, Mangalore Chapter, is organising a workshop on important labour laws here on March 20, according to a press release from P.A. Jose, Chairman, NIPM (Mangalore Chapter). The purpose of the workshop was to expose the practitioners and entrepreneurs to the objective behind bringing out the enactments. The participants who would be benefited from the workshop include personnel officers, welfare officers, contractors, entrepreneurs, accounts officers, HRM professionals, social workers, and students of management institutions. Resource persons for the workshop include senior officials from the enforcing authorities and practitioners, the release added. Interested may register their names by contacting Natesan (2420420), Roshan Vas (98451-12393), or S. Ravi (2219183). NIPM is a premier national body of professional managers engaged in the field of human resource management. It is affiliated to the Asia-Pacific Federation of Human Resource Management and World Federation of Personnel Management Association.

Women told to fight dowry

By Our Correspondent

Chamarajanagar MARCH 15. The Minister of State for Kannada and Culture, Rani Satish, has called upon women to raise their voice against dowry, child marriage, and female foeticide, and work to eliminate them. She was speaking at a function at Devaraj Urs Stadium at Gundlupet town today. She said women were not inferior to men. The Minister said the contribution of women to the development of society was high. Inaugurating the function, the seer of Suttur Math, Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji, said women should make their menfolk give up bad habits. The coordinator of International Human Development and Progressive Organisation, K.S. Nanjappa, said "Ujjvala Andolana" had been started to make rural women self-reliant. He said nearly 80 women self-help groups were participating in the andolan.

Special train to Bijapur

By Our Special Correspondent

HUBLI MARCH 15. The South Western Railway will run a single service special train between Yeshwantpur and Bijapur on Wednesday. The train will leave Yeshwantpur at 4.15 p.m. to reach Bijapur at 10.15 a.m. the next day. It will touch Dharmavaram, Wadi, and Hotgi. The will also stop at Yelahanka, Hindupur, and Indi Road stations of the South Western Railway, Guntakal and Raichur of South Central Railway, and Solapur of the Central Railway, according to a press release issued here today. The train will have 10 coaches comprising a three-tier AC, three second class sleeper, and four general second class, and two second class luggage-cum-brake vans.

BJP decision welcomed

By Our Staff Correspondent

TUMKUR MARCH 15. The Federation of "Stree Shakti" self-help groups has welcomed the BJP's decision to field at least one woman from an Assembly segment in each Lok Sabha constituency. The president of the federation, Shantamma, told presspersons at Bellavi, near here, today that the decision would ensure that a minimum of 28 women candidates contested on the BJP ticket in Karnataka. She wondered whether the Congress, the Janata Dal (Secular), and other political parties would the BJP's example. "The BJP has proved that it has concern for women," Ms. Shanthamma, who is also the BJP Mahila Morcha leader, said.

`Women's contribution immense'

By Our Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE MARCH 15. The St. Aloysius Institute of Social Work and the Hunger Project, a Bangalore-based non-governmental organisation, will jointly host a workshop on "Media and elected women representatives" here on March 20, according to a release by the principal of St. Aloysius College, Eugene Lobo. He said this was the 10th year of the passing of the 73rd Amendment Bill. The amendment ensured 33 per cent reservation to women in administration. This had enabled them to actively participate in panchayat raj institutions. Though the contribution of women to panchayat raj was immense, the media had not highlighted it. The executive director of Samaj Parivarthan Samudaya, Ranebennur, S.R. Hiremath, would deliver the keynote address on "Importance of 73rd Amendment in Indian situation." The workshop would deliberate on topics such as "impact of 33 per cent reservation for women in Karnataka," "Role of media in regional politics," "Enhancing the capacity of elected women representatives," "Role of Government and non-governmental organisations in empowering elected women representatives," and "Strategies to overcome obstacles in effective participation of elected women representatives in local governance." The workshop would formulate recommendations for the media. The Vice-President of the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, Shalet Pinto, would participate in the inaugural function. Journalists would also participate in the sessions, the release added.

Award for NITK alumnus

By Our Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE MARCH 15. K. Obanna, a student of the Department of Metallurgical and Material Engineering (2001-03 batch), National Institute of Technology-Karnataka, Suratkal, has been selected by the Institute of Indian Foundrymen, Kolkatta, for the Prof. P. Banerjee Memorial Best M.Tech Thesis Silver Medal for 2003. A press release from the Assistant Professor of the department, K. Narayan Prabhu, said the award was given every year by the institute to the best thesis submitted at the national level in the field of foundry technology. The award was announced at the 52nd Indian Foundry Congress held at Hyderabad from February 6 to 8.

The thesis that fetched Mr. Obanna the best thesis award was titled "Studies on thermal contact heat transfer during quench heat treatment and casting solidification," the release said.

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