HESCOM’s power play to continue

Due to some technical fault at the Raichur power plant there is a acute power shortage in the state and the HESCOM’s power play will continue over a few more days.

In fact this time the whole state is witnessing the power play. This is exam time and the students who are preparing for their exams will feel the pinch of the power cuts the most.

The demand in the past week has also risen due to the increase in temperature which now lies in between 28 to 31 Deg C. The demand for fans and even AC’s has seen some increase in the past week.

BJP to resolve the Karnataka Maharashtra border row if it comes to power

The BJP expressed confidence, that the Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary dispute will be resolved amicably if the party comes to power at the Centre, and ruled out "differences" with ally Shiv Sena over the row.

Party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters, "BJP believes that inter-state issues could be resolved only through dialogue. If our BJP government comes to power at Centre, a satisfactory way-out will be found."
Source: Times Now

Belgaum to get Bandu patil Circle

The Belgaum Cantonment had planned to rename the Khanapur road from Sanchayni Circle to Suryakant Park (Gogte circle) as Bandu Patil (He was a part of the gold medal winning Indian hockey team in the 1960’s) road, but it was later found that, the same road was named after Maj.Cariappa in the military records.

Hence it is now decided to rename the Sanchayani Circle as Bandu Patil Circle and circle will be renovated with an island in the middle.

This circle was named as Sanchayani Circle about 10 years ago when Sanchayani group was building a complex at the circle and also had sought permission then from the Cantonment board to maintain the circle. But the Complex was ready but never occupied due to court orders and till date it is lying un used due to litigation.

The Sanchayani group had built a island in the middle but due to non maintenance the island was removed.

Belgaum Dog show 2009 on 8th Feb

The Belgaum Dog show 2009 will be held at the District Stadium on February 8 at 10 am.
The event is being organized by the Karnataka Veterinary Association district Branch, Belgaum.

Some other pets such as cats a few imported cats and birds will be on display. For details contact: Veterinary hospital: 0831-2427438

Movies as on 06-02-09

Theatre	Movie	Timings
Big Cinemas	Luck by Chance	3.30, 9.30pm
	Dev D	12.15,3.15,6.15,9.15
	Raaz2	12.30,6.30pm
Ritz Srikrishna
Nirmal	Nand (K)	12.15pm,3.15pm,6.15pm,9.15pm
Huns	Raaz 2	12.15pm,3.15pm,6.15pm,9.15pm
Arun	Yaar Mera Diwana	12.30pm,2pm,4pm,7pm
Roopali	Cheluven Chitrara (K)	12,3,6,9
Balkrishna	Yaar Mera Kaatil	12.30,3.30,6.30,9.30
Chitra	Jolly Days (K)	12,3,6,9
Swaroop	Idea Madyar (K)	12,3,6,9
Hira	Nilkanth (K)	12.15pm,3.15pm,6.15pm,9.15pm
Prakash	Ambari(K)	12.15pm,3.15pm,6.15pm,9.15pm
Nartaki	Dracula Ka kahar	6.30,9.30
	Ghanji	12,3.15
Santosh	Jungle	12.15pm,3.15pm,6.15pm,9.15pm
Globe	Hello Doctor	12,1.45,3.45,6.45
Kindly check the excat  timings with the theatres

SPECIAL BUDGET GRANT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF Belgaum

The Belgaum city corporation has invited tenders for various development works in Belgaum under the special grant from the State government.

The works include roads, UGD, Central Lighting works etc in Belgaum city. The works include very many roads of the city mainly roads that were not touched up during the Assembly session and those covered here again are for other works such as dividers and street lights.

See the complete Tender here.

The total cost of tenders is a whopping 9317.627 Lakhs. (This figure was gained after adding all the 31 packages)
The time limit for all the works is 9 months.
Last date for submitting application for tender forms document is 12-02-2009
Opening of Technical Bids by the Commissioner, Corporation of the City of Belgaum is on
02-03-2009 at 11.30 am or any other date will be intimated later.

I request all to go to the link above of the tender and see what kind of development work is planned for your area.

HESCOM’s Power play

HESCOM’s Power play

In the past two days HESCOM is playing with power supply. The state is facing a power shortage and before the Assembly session there was a planned load shedding going on, but during the session this was stopped.

Now after the session there is no planned load shedding. There is power cut at any time and for any time period. Sometimes it’s half an hour and sometimes four hours. Yesterday it was a hide and seek as after every 15 minutes or so there was a power cut.

Today so far the situation seems to be good.

Ethanol-blending programme on a pilot basis in Belgaum

The government has initiated ten per cent ethanol-blending programme on a pilot basis in two districts - Belgaum in Karnataka and Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh.

Initiated about a month ago, will continue till June 2009, said informed sources. The purpose behind this pilot initiative is to study the impact of ten per cent blending on two-wheelers before introducing it commercially. Domestic oil marketing companies (OMCs) are keen to continue biofuel blending programmes even after the recent crash in crude oil prices. Blending of ethanol, they say, is necessary from the viewpoint of import substitution in crude oil.

Source: Business Standard

MphasiS BPO keen to start shop in Belgaum

K N Srikanth, head (domestic BPO) at MphasiS, sees more growth coming from tier-II and -III towns.
MphasiS is thinking of entering Bellary and Belgaum in the near future. Source: DNA

Hotel VITS Belgaum no more

Belgaum Fort & Moat in 1913 photo

Four passengers looted in Jodhpur express

Four passengers traveling in the AC compartment of Yeshwanthpur-Jodhpur Express were looted of cash and gold ornaments worth more than Rs. 2.5 lakh, after being drugged by co-passengers on Sunday night, three were women.

A co passenger who also spoke in Marwadi and who allegedly told them he was also going to the same place gave them some milk, after which all 4 fell unconscious and the man looted them.
Source: The Hindu Electoral Rolls of Belgaum as of 01.01.2009 published on 02.02.2009

This is the same as my earlier posts a day or earlier. However, those were draft and this is the final version of the Electoral Rolls.

Infact this was supposed to have Photos in it, but the same is not visible in the PDF file and the amazing fact that all those who newly got their Voter ID card prepared, with voter card like ASY etc Photo not available is written.

Do not understand it tough. Nevertheless, just click below on your constituency and then your Polling booth and find your name in it.

Belgaum North
Belgaum South
Belgaum Rural
My name is there, so I can Vote which means “I am not sleeping and I will vote on the Election Day”.

Switch your mobile on: Lecture will commence

Innovative technologies and high-speed communication systems that have converted the world into a global village have come in handy to give concrete shapes to these new ideas and concepts.
Latest developments in the field of education are the development of e-learning content on a mobile device. This is what the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has planned to launch in about three months’ time.
With the launch of the e-learning content, VTU would be enabling its students to learn anywhere, anytime via a mobile phone.
According to Vice-Chancellor, this will be for the first time that any educational institution in the country has taken up a project to provide such a facility that will also ensure a new learning experience to engineering students. A Bangalore-based Information Technology company has already started working on developing the programme.
Once the facility is launched, a student can access a topic from the course on his/her mobile phone. The programme enables students to have direct access to the courseware and learn with the help of 3D graphical presentation of topics in various engineering subjects. The presentations are linked with voice and text content.
The students can view the 3D animations from different angles. For example, the working of a DC motor can be understood well by showing the animation of setting up of flux and the generation of torque which control the movement of shaft. The student can vary the field current, and see how flux changes and hence the change of torque. The low bit animation of process enables fast access and hence can provide quicker response to the input stimuli.
The VTU has proposed to develop five courses using the low bit animation technology.
Source: The Hindu

LKG admission: Those fearful days in life

Most of you must have been taken by surprise with this post, why this post of LKG admission now?

A simple answer to this, if you are parent of a child aged between 3 years 10 months and less than 4 years 10 months as on June 1, 2009 then you all need to go through this.

Now this is the most important criteria, even if the age of the child is less or more by a single day you do not qualify for the Junior KG admissions in this case. If you are looking for Nursery admissions you should look for 2 years 10months and less than 3 years 10 months. SO approximately for Junior KG, the date of birth of the child should be between 1-08-2004 to 31-07-2005. (This is an approximate date calculation)

First point is checking this out.
Now that you have found yourself in that age slot now what else needs to be done. Original birth certificate is needed to be submitted to the school if your child is admitted and many photo copies will be required at each of the schools as they check the birth certificate mandatorily before giving the forms. If you don’t have one, you still have time to get it done. Now the question where do we get it from, the local health office of the area in which hospital the child was born. For Example: all those born in hospitals of Chidambar nagar, Vadgaon will have to go to the primary health centre of Vadgaon. Birth certificates are issued up to 1 year from there and later on from the City corporation office.

Now that you have got hold of the birth certificate get a few id card photos of your child to be put on the forms, not all schools ask but now a day’s normally all ask for it, so photos must be kept ready.

Keep visiting the schools from now on and keep asking about when the admission process begins, last year I had a tough time as there was no information anywhere on the internet as to how the whole process works, this time you have this site at least.

Understanding the Process:
The admission process is somewhat similar in all schools. You are given forms on particular days, then you fill them up and submit in a time limit and then you are called in for interview of your child and also you. If you are lucky to get a seat in the first list go party if not then go and fall at the feet of the principal and committee members and try and cook something, something will cook for sure.

One more point in this; last year schools like DP and St.Josephs had made area wise admission means if you stay in camp then apply for St.Josephs etc. I had applied in both places but I did not get admission for my child in both, so I would request you to try any one of the two above.

Those long queues in the night outside the same school we studied, this time for only a form. Normally all will get forms as they print in thousands it’s only that you should be there on time.

Last year Herwadkar School began the process on 18th march and other prominent schools began on April 1. This time the timings could be changed keeping in view the loksabha elections, I am not sure but it could affect the admission process.

Now to the most important note, if you interested in some particular school then go and find someone on the committee as a reference, it could be easy for you and now to the dream point MONEY. Keep about 20 thousand ready to pay as development charges or any other name. 20 thousand is just a figure it could be more and you get very less time to pay in so keep those funds ready.

It’s not that all schools take development charges as high as 15 or 20 thousand some schools it is even 5 thousand but you need to be the lucky ones who come up on the first list.

There are some points I would like young parents to go through:
1. Apply in all schools, if you are looking for English medium, then all English medium schools, when I mean all, I mean ALL. St.Pauls, Xaviers, Marys, Herwadkar, Mahila Vidyalaya etc.2. When you apply start finding some influence or a person who could recommend your child’s name to the managing committee even before you submit the form.3. When the lists are out and you don’t find your name in the list try hard again and again for some more influence and of course be prepared to shell out more bucks.4. Even after all this you don’t find your luck, search for some other school.5. Even if you are there in the list the donations could hold you back, so be prepared to spend a lot, when I mean lot, I mean LOTS n lots on money.


All the above points have been compiled as I have gone all through it. I understand when your child does not make it in the first list what goes on with you.

Also see the previous year’s post which will help you understand the process much better.
Beggars cannot be choosers:LKG admissions
Admission tensions are boiling over!
Admission time: Is raat ki Subh Kabhi

As of today the KLE International school has begin giving forms and the admission process for the same kindly contact in the Lingraj College campus.