No mobiles in colleges
8:04 AM Posted by ukmad
Karnataka government has banned the use of mobile phones in all government and aided first grade colleges under the Department of Collegiate Education (DCE).
No IIT for Karnataka Belgaum not in picture
4:22 PM Posted by ukmad
In the recent past there were headlines running that an IIT was to be set up in Karnataka and local MLA’s had done various meetings and sent memorandum to human resource development minister Mr.Kapil Sibbal. HRD minister has formally rejected demands for an IIT in Karnataka during the XIth Five Year Plan, snubbing lobbying from top leaders across party lines seeking the institute in their fiefs.
Sibal has argued in his letter to Moily that all funds allocated to the HRD ministry under the XIth plan for starting new IITs had been earmarked for the eight promised institutes. So, it will not be possible for the ministry to start an IIT in Karnataka during the current plan, Sibal is learnt to have written.
Sibbal has put a lid on the campaign for an IIT in Belgaum. What went wrong only Mr.Sibbal can tell? But it seems too much lobbying must have caused this and one more dream remains a dream.
Link sent by: JT
Border row: Gods in a dilemma
1:24 PM Posted by ukmad
The Deccan Chronicle has been writing about Belgaum in a bit different way. Here is one more story from their stable.
Finding no solution in the courts or elsewhere to the border dispute between Maharashtra and Karntaka, the pro-Maratha lobby in Belgaum feels it has been left with no other option but to seek divine help. A team led by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra traditionally performs the pooja at the Pandarpur jathra for the welfare of the state and its people.
People of Maharashtra have great faith in the Pandarpur jathra and believe that Vithal Rukmai blesses them with everything they ask for. This most popular jathra is attended by lakhs of devotees every year.
“The long legal battle between the governments has not been able to resolve the boundary row. This time Vithal Rukmai will listen to our prayers,” say several pro-Maharashtra leaders here, who have conveyed their sentiments to Mr Chavan.
“There is no other option left for the government but to pray,” these Marathi leaders say.
But it now seems the dispute could place even the Gods in a dilemma. According to sources, not just Maharashtrians but also lakhs of Kannadigas will take part in the jathra for the welfare of Karnataka and their own well being.
Instead of praying to solve the border issue these politicians need to pray to God for good rains and peace & we the public should pray to God for some good sense to the politicians.
Maharashtra open for out-of-court settlement of border dispute
7:28 PM Posted by ukmad
Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Thursday said that his government was open to an out-of-court settlement on the long-pending boundary dispute with Karnataka.
Mr. Chavan was speaking at the Legislative Assembly in reply to the motion of thanks to the Governor for his address to the joint session of the state legislature; we wish to accelerate the border issue towards a settlement in this golden jubilee year of foundation of Maharashtra state he said.
Maharashtra will not tolerate injustice on the Marathi-speaking people of Belgaum, Karwar, Nippani and other areas on the Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary. There will be no compromise on this issue he added.
Source: The Hindu
Marriages are made in heaven-registration at office
11:15 AM Posted by ukmad
This is marriage season and all arrangements are done, but more often than not, many don’t bother to register their marriages. Registration of marriage is very essential legally. But most of them say who will go, where the office, we got married just today, we will go after our honeymoon etc etc is so here are a few answers to it.
All those who have not registered their marriages yet kindly do that.
The entire procedure is very simple as explained in these links. The touts/agents and corrupt officials may demand anywhere between Rs 300 to Rs 1000 for the same. But follow the procedure given here and avoid corruption.
Complete info for marriage registration in Karnataka.
The application form fee is Rs. 5 and the certificate cost is Rs. 10. In addition they charge Rs. 90 as "scanning charges".
Marriage registration complete info and procedure
http://www.karigr.org/faq/registrationofmarriage.htm
Contact details of Sub-registrars in Karnataka
http://www.karigr.org/contactus/default.htm#a
Belgaum office address:
District Registrar, Registrar of Societies and Registrar of Firms, Belgaum, Near D.C. Office, Belgaum -590 103. Phone: 0831-2428620.
Sub Registrar office: Belgaum, Court Compound, and Belgaum 590001 Phone: 0831-2 425860
Courtesy: Rashtrotthan Sankalp
Belgaum at 22 place in PUC results
10:21 AM Posted by ukmad
The Karnataka PRE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT declared the results yesterday afternoon over the internet.
Belgaum district has a passing percentage of 42.49%. Belgaum stands at 22nd place in the state and previously it stood at 19th place, in 2007 it was at 11th place.
Now say Cheers with a bigger hole to your pocket: liquor retailers also hit badly
12:13 PM Posted by ukmad
Presently, in the state, the retailers are entitled for a profit margin of 20%. This will come down with the new move. It isn’t consumers alone who will have to fork out more. Liquor retailers will have to settle for lower profits as new tax measures that erode their bottom-line will be introduced.
The retailers have to pay annual renewal license fees of Rs.3 lakhs for wine shops and 5.5 lakhs for bars. No doubt the inflation number has come down and tomorrow it will be in negative for sure but the costs for running the business is growing day by day.
A bar owner told this blog, how do we recover this 5.5 Lakhs paid as license fees when our margin is brought down from 20%. We have so many other expenses of running the bar, where will we get that from and to add to all this the number of Dry days have increased to about 25 days in a year, which is a great loss to us. He added, how one can sustain a business when you have just 10 % margin and pay a fee of Rs.600 a day.
Price Calculation methodology:
A bottle of KF would cost Rs.65 MRP which was sold by wine shops for Rs.70. so landing price = 65 -20%= 52 Plus tax
Now after the new AED same becomes 67 -10%= 61.00rs Plus tax
So in short the retailer’s margin is reduced by Rs.9 plus tax
So KF beer which was 65+5 =70 is now 70+9+5 =84. The additional Rs.5 is normally taken for chilling.
MRP is applicable for Wine shops as they have to sell as retail outlets. As a bar one can charge higher as they have Service and other overheads.
Moreover in Belgaum a lot of Military stuff (Liquor from Military canteen) is sold illegally. So the retailers pay taxes and they go without any thing.
Prices of few brands of IMFL:
KF Beer –Old rate Rs. 70 New rate 84
Disclaimer: Neither this blog nor the author is in favour of drinking nor do they intend to promote drinking. This is just an aspect of life which many don’t know.
Karnataka budget 2009-10: old promises in new budget
4:34 PM Posted by ukmad
All the allocation you will read below had been already told at the Legislature session held at Belgaum. Nothing commendable but yet good to budget allocation made for what was promised.
This is what all Belgaum will get:
A big market for horticultural produce will be established at Belgaum in public private partnership at the cost of Rs.100 crore.
Rs.10 crore will be provided for establishing milk chilling plants at Belgaum
The Belgaum general hospital will be upgraded to have additional bed capacity of 250 each.
A Botanical Garden of the type of Lal Bagh will be developed by planting trees in 156 acres of Government land available at the Vaccine Institute in Belgaum. A provision of Rs.5 crore has been made for this in the year 2009-10.
Ring road facilities will be provided to Belgaum with private participation during 2009-10. Renovation of underground drainage system of Belgaum city will be taken up at an estimated cost of Rs.120 crores.
The State Government will provide its 50% share for taking up the works of new Railway lines Dharwad-Belgaum direct line, Kudachi-Bagalkot, Gadag-Haveri, Almatti-Koppal lines.
Apparel clusters will be built in Belgaum,
It is already decided to spend an amount of Rs.10 crores for providing infrastructure facilities to Handloom weavers in Belgaum and Rabakavi-Banahatti for establishing sizing units. To enable the poor weavers to carry out their profession in conducive environment it is proposed to launch a new programme to construct houses with 5000 weaving rooms at a cost of Rs.60,000 each. For this purpose an amount of Rs. 30 crores is provided during 2009-10.
A Foundry Park will be established in an area of 500 acres in Mache village of Belgaum district through KIADB.
The Government is committed for making permanent arrangements for conducting Legislature Sessions in Belgaum every year so as to strengthen the feeling of oneness among the people of all parts of Karnataka. In this direction an amount of Rs.100 crores will be provided for construction of Suvarna Vidhana Soudha during 2009-10.
Gangadhar Despande, (Freedom Fighter) memorial in Belgaum district.
A bouquet of Rs 1,464 crore for the development of North Karnataka, a major portion of which will be utilised for providing clean drinking water to fluoride-hit villages, and for the development of Belgaum district.
Entertainment tax has been reduced to 30% which should reduce the ticket of seeing a cinema. Staying at hotels could also become a bit cheaper as luxury tax has been reduced.
Memorandum for North Karnataka development submitted to CM
1:17 PM Posted by ukmad
The complete text which is in Kannada can be seen here http://belgaum.nic.in/nk-development.swf
However the main points covering Belgaum are as follows:
Making of Ring road in Belgaum
Overall development of Belgaum Conservation of archaeological buildings in Halshi
Hubli Belgaum - direct rail way line
Horticulture lab in Belgaum
Flyover Bridge, proper water supply, cleanliness
Goa-Belgaum NH4A of 0-84 Km to be re-laid
With inputs from Mr.Brahmanand Chipre.
Belgaum Session: 2006 and now in 2008 what city will get
4:48 PM Posted by ukmad
The first ever session of the Karnataka Legislative assembly was held in Belgaum 25-09-2006 to 29-09-2006.
Once the announcement of the session was made many places in the city were seen through so as to get the most ideal place for the session. Right from the VTU, Gandhi Bhavan too many other places and at last the JNMC campus was selected. At that moment initially nobody had thought about that venue as the chairman Mr.Kore was in the congress and during that time Congress was in the opposition.
Mr.Prabhakar Kore came forward and gave his JNMC campus to be turned in to the part time assembly. Which all liked as it was somewhat out of the city with main road connectivity and many hotels in the surrounding.
Holding a session is not easy, accommodation from staff to MLA and Governor has to be done. JNMC campus has one of the best renovated international hostels like the Akkamahadevi international hostel where many of the MLAs and staff resided during the last session. Hotels like Shankam, Ramdev, Adarsh Palace were booked.
This time also the same thing will happen, not to mention VITS will be added to the list.
Roads leading from the airport to the JNMC campus will be repaired to see that there are no potholes. The area surrounding the campus will be cleaned for cleanliness and also for security concerns. A few other roads will also get a face lift in this time.
All the students there in the JNMC had a holiday for about 10 days last time in 2006, the same would be case this time also, the number of days might be increase this time.
What else can we expect from the session to Belgaum is uninterrupted power supply during those 10 days, which will be a welcome move for us.
The national media and also the state media will be here to cover the show. So you could see some specials on various channels in respect to Belgaum.
With all this some restrictions will also come in. All roads from Kolhapur Cross towards JNMC will be blocked. Access to KLE hospital will not be easy. People coming in from Kolhapur side might have to divert their entry near the Lake. Busses leaving from Ramdev hotel could be shifted elsewhere in that period. Regular business of local dealers from Hotel Ramdev onwards towards the campus will be drastically affected as their main consumer bases are students who will not be there.
Some new policies or draft resolutions may be passed in the Session for the growth of Belgaum district. Not sure what will happen but something is expected to happen.
Out of the 3 assembly constituencies in Belgaum, 2 are held by the ruling BJP and one by the Congress.
If you would like to know all that happened in the 2006 session this link will give you all the details.
http://belgaum.nic.in/new_assembly.htm
So now look forward to the session and hope Belgaum city will get its due.
Winter session of Karnataka Legislature in 2nd week of January at Belgaum
8:39 PM Posted by ukmad
The dates and the length of the session would be declared later.
Even the venue will have to be looked for, but it could be the same KLE hall that had hosted the first ever legislature session in September 2006.
CET Counseling in Belgaum also
4:41 PM Posted by ukmad
Source
New housing apartment by KHB near over bridge
9:56 PM Posted by ukmad
The work has just begun and the same is visible in the images. The KHB will spend about 24 cores for the project, which is being built by a Bangalore based company. The project is expected to be completed by October 2009.
Source: http://www.tarunbharat.com/EditionsNews.asp?daten=11/10/2008&id=15449Images: UkMaD creatives
Council Chairman wants session in Belgaum
5:45 PM Posted by ukmad
Speaking to newspersons here, Mr Mathikatti said it had been decided to convene the Legislative Session annually at Belgaum.
A special session of the Legislature was held for the first time at Belgaum, away from Bangalore, in 2006 and was yet to host another session.
Source: http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20081106/1097478.html
New Sign Board: Where is this Kotekere
10:27 AM Posted by ukmad
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The biggest Question to me where is this Kotekere, 3 km from there. The graphical sign is of a Beach, with coconut tress and thatch huts.
Please I need to know where is this place 3 kms from Gogte Circle. (now you might say, this guy is blogging about Belgaum and why is he asking us, But I don’t know so only I am asking)
Just got know that "Kere" in Kannada means Lake and Kote means "Fort", so is that Lake near the Fort? Must be.
