After several protests and rallies done by KRV and other Kanada organisations, CM BSY today announced this on the floor of the assembly that Veer Rani Kittur Channama PG center at Bhutrammarti will be converted into a independent university which will serve Belgaum district.
This is a welcome step for Belgaumites as another university in the city, VTU already exists.
Speaking to the blog, Rajeev Toppannavar of KRV said that this is victory of Belgaum and once this university starts all students of Belgaum district will be benefited.

KRV celebrating

Thanks to Aziz for this classic photo.
Now can you tell what is this?

Most of you must have been taken by amazement 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, 2010 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(LKG) 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 1-08-2005 to 31-07-2006. (This is an approximate date calculation)
Important dates this season:
Herwadkar School ( R K Jangra KG) – Forms will be given on 5, 6, 7 April from 11am to 2pm
Divine providence - Forms will be given on 5, 6, 7 April from 8am to 9am
St.Joesphs Convent - Forms will be given on 5, 6, 7 April from 7.30am to 9.30am
St.Xaviers - Forms will be given on 6, 7 April from 3pm.

This list is not complete and I managed to get info on these schools. Kindly go and check with the school you want your child to be admitted. All schools must have put a notice regarding the same now.
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.
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.
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

We want new industries, development and at the same time we want our economies back bone the “Farmer” to live a poverty ridden life all his life and now is being left landless after the various land acquisitions notices they got in the past month.
 Fertile farm land was ordered to be acquired for the Machhe- Halga bypass part of the Hyderabad -Panjim national highway. More than 500 complaints were received from farmers from Mache, Peeranwadi, Vadgaon, Angol and Khanapur areas.
Yesterday farmers from Peeranwadi, Hunchanhatti, Balmatti, Kattalwadi were shcoked to receive notices of their land acquisition by KIADB. Around 1200 acres of land will acquired by KIADB as per the notices received.
The farmers protest but no one hears them. Today also the farmers from Peeranwadi and other areas plan to meet and protest the against the govt. for acquiring their farm land.
“Agriculture is the backbone of the Indian economy” , this sentence would be history and farmer without farm land will not have his own backbone standing straight.
This question of land acquisition of farm land will and always come up and the poor farmer gets stuck. Several promises are made to the farmers but how many of them are kept is unknown.
If we need to progress, have industries we will have to acquire land, there is no option, but why cant the govt. think of acquiring barren land first and develop that.
If we have factories on all farm land what will we eat, what a country needs is a sustainable food production and availability of food. Can factories produce rice, wheat or can we eat steel for dinner and cement for break fast.

Kannada Rakshana Vedike activists and members of other Kannada organizations staged a demonstration in front of Vidhana Soudha on Monday in support of the demand to upgrade the centre to an independent university, and submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister.
Meanwhile in Belgaum meeting of prominent leaders of different political parties and representatives of social and Kannada organizations at Kannada Sahitya Bhavan on Tuesday on the same issue.

A thought came to my mind vis-à-vis the ARTS (both performing and non performing) sector in Belgaum. Something collectively should be and can be done by all the artists located in Belgaum when they collaborate on a single platform. I don’t know how many artists are in Belgaum but we could attempt to get all these on a single platform which would contain data of all the artists and their details etc and it would benefit the artists as well as people who want to arrange a program or who want to get more info on starting up a career as an artist in Belgaum.

There are a lot of artist from Belgaum in the field of music, painting, photography(as an art) graphic designers, singers and many more which I may not even know about.
There may be a off line group existing like the arts circle or others but all are scattered and if someone from the artists can come forward we could go ahead and form a on line group and have all data compiled on a single site.
A few of these artists have been featured under various heads as stars of Belgaum, Young Guns etc. But there is no single on line platform where information is available of all these artists on a single click.
Most of the artists have performed outside and have earned a name for themselves but if they all have a single platform then they could make use of their collective strength to push their demands in-front of others and the most urgent necessity is a good hall with good audio equipment and seating arrangements. Belgaum is lacking a hi tech drama hall or a music hall because of which many great artists refuse to perform here.
AAB [http://allaboutbelgaum.com] would be devoted to share information on this on the site help this group.
This is just a thought and I have nothing concrete in my mind. People in this field could throw additional light on this.
I would request all the artists to leave a comment on this.
Let me know your thoughts on this.

Belgaum has so many IT companies?
To answer these kind of questions IT Belgaum is doing the current set of awareness campaign in all colleges of Belgaum.
The learned Faculty and the students were exceedingly gratified by the ITBelgaum’s initiative of doing technical seminar and workshops.
This was the 7th college that a workshop was conducted.
Amit Soundalgekar, a corporate soft skill trainer gave an introduction to IT Belgaum in a overzealous style.
Sandeep Tekriwal, of Starnet Belgaum spoke on Social media and its importance for everyone.

The IT Belgaum group has been contributing its bit to the society by disseminating the latest information of the industry and know how with the students of various colleges of the city.

There was a fire on the heaps of grass stored in Shivaji colony adjacent to MG Colony in Tilakwadi.
around 12 noon today 15th March 2010. The loss has been reported to be more than Rs.1 lakh. Fire brigade got the fire under control.
All Photos Sujay Nimbalkar

KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research, Belgaum along with three other deemed universities in the state have been put under the scanner for not maintaining the required standards even as six other institutions are set to lose their deemed university status subject to the order of the Supreme Court.
 All the these four universities in question have now been put in “category-II” for monitoring their standard.
 The K.L.E. Academy of Higher Education and Research, Belgaum became a Deemed University under the University Grants Commission's Act, on 13th April, 2006. It is the first institute in North Karnataka to become a deemed university and has under its fold two colleges i.e. Jawarharlal Nehru Medical College Belgaum and the Institute of Dental Sciences also in Belgaum. The K.L.E. Academy of Higher Education and Research is an educational institute set up initially by the Karnataka Lingavat Education Society with the objective of providing top quality education particularly in the area of health and medical sciences. The Karnataka Lingavat Education Society has now spread its wings to include almost 200 institutes.
The Institute offers the following undergraduate, postgraduate, post doctoral and other courses:
Ph.D.
Microbiology
Biochemistry
Pharmacology
M. Sc.
Hospital Administration
Post Doctoral
M. Ch. in Urology
DM in Neurology
M. Ch. In CTVS
Allied Medical Degree Programs
B.Sc. Medical Laboratory Technology
B.Sc. Radiology
B.Sc. Cardiac Care Technology
B.Sc. Perfusion Technology
B.Sc. Anaesthesia Technology
B.Sc. Neurology Technology
DM in Cardiology
UG Medical
MBBS
PG Medical(Degree /Diploma)
Physiology (MD)
Biochemistry (MD)
Pharmacology (MD)
Anatomy (MD)
Pathology (MD D.C.P).
Microbiology (MD)
Forensic Medicine (MD D.F.M).
Community Medicine (MD D.P.H).
General Medicine (MD)
General Surgery (MS)
O.B.G (MS D.G.O).
Paediatrics (MD D.C.H).
Anaesthesiology (MD D.A)
Skin & STD (MD D.V.D).
Orthopaedics (MS D. Ortho)
Ophthalmology (MS D.O.M.S.)
E.N.T. (MS D.L.O)
Radiology (MD D.M.R.D)
T.B. & Chest (MD)
Courses offered in Dentistry
Bachelor of Dental Surgery Course(B.D.S.)
Post Graduate Courses
M.D.S. (Prosthodontics)
M.D.S. (Periodontics)
M.D.S. (Oral Maxillofacial Surgery)
M.D.S. (Conservative Dentistry)
M.D.S. (Orthodontics)
M.D.S. (Oral Pathology)
M.D.S. (Community Dentistry)
M.D.S. (Pedodontics)
M.D.S. (Oral Medicine & Radiology)
Other Courses
Certificate Course in Implantology
Diploma Course in Dental Mechanics
Diploma Course in Dental Hygiene
M.Pharm in Pharmaceutics & M.Pharm in Pharmacology (2 years course)
M.Pharm - 2 years Post-Graduation Course
Certificate Course in Community Pharmacy (3 months course)
B.Pharm Course for Women ( 4 years)
M.Sc. in hospital management
Post Doctoral Certificate Courses in Cardiac Anaesthesia
Certificate Course in Implantology
Dental Mechanic/Dental Hygienist (2 years certificate course)

Source:Indiaedu & The Hindu

In the past couple of months Belgaum is seeing a Cable war between the two multi system operators are fighting with each other. Old boy Ridhi Vision and the new kid Vardraj Cable network are taking it one on one.
In press conference the Rajesh Jadhav of Vardraj accused Ridhi Vsion's Chabria's of spreading rumors that his cable control room has been sealed. Jadhav also added he will file a defamation case against Ridhi vision in this regard.
The latest fighting is due to the tender allotment made to Vardraj at Sambra base for 750 odd cable connections. It is learned that Vardraj had made a tender for cable distribution at Sambra for Rs. 175 and free set top box. While Ridhi Vision tendered at rental of Rs.165 and Rs.1500 for a set top box. The tender was awarded to Vardraj and later Ridhi Vision went back to officials with a new rate of Rs.90 per month. Hearing this the Air base officials said that if you are now ready to give connections at Rs.90 why were you charging us Rs.200 for so many years.

Source: Press Conference & Patrika

The KRV blocked the officials convoy yesterday to make their voice heard for making the Veer Rani Kittur Channama PG center at Bhutramatti into a university. KRV and others are also demanding the same as this would save the students from going to Dhrwad.

A toy library for your children that lends out Barbie’s and Power rangers.
Kids Gurukul is one of the most reputed names in child education via entertainment.
 The main objective of Kids Gurukul is the all round development of Kids – enhancing their Visual, Verbal, Intellectual, Numerical, Analytical, Sensory, & Memory Skills by advanced learning systems & educational aids - Toys, Games, Books, Interactive Cds, Cd-Roms, Computer Games & Outdoor Games.
Various kinds of activities & competitions for kids & parents are also organized by Kids Gurukul. Various Camps & seminars for the child development are organized at the time of vacations for overall development.
And all this will be available in Belgaum and for creating awareness a exhibition has been arranged on 16 march from 11 am to 8pm at Maratha Mandir, Near Over bridge.
 If registered on that day customers get good discount, so go ahead and make your child as well as your pocket happy.
For more details please call Laxman Patil – 94484 54010.
This is a great concept and for a city like Belgaum where one does not find all the latest books and CD’s this could be one stop spot for your kid’s development.

The premier Special Interest Group of the IT-BPO companies in Belgaum, ITBelgaum’s initiative of doing technical seminar and workshops was over again exceedingly gratified by the students and the faculty of BET's Bhartesh college of Business administration.

Prof. G M Shetti, Prof. Arif Shaikh appreciated the efforts of the companies of coming together and spreading the word about IT amongst the student fraternity.
Rajendra Pai, a freelance excel trainer gave a introduction to IT Belgaum and Dr.Ameet Patil of Spundhan labs spoke on a very different topic, Wke up Sid. It was nothing to do with the movie but how one can sell himself in the job market.
The IT Belgaum group has been contributing its bit to the society by disseminating the latest information of the industry and know how with the students of various colleges of the city.