Zilla panchayat president Ravi Kushalappa directed the education department officials to reclaim encroached lands of government school in the taluk.

Speaking at a meeting of the taluk panchayat here recently, he said there were allegations about encroachment of the school lands.

The SDMC and teachers should discuss the issue and take measures to reclaim the lands.
The engineers should look into the poor quality of work taken up with the funds available under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. The honorarium paid to Asha workers should be increased, he said.

Taluk panchayat president Hosamane Kavitha Prabhakar directed the officials to prepare an action plan for repairing and constructing anganwadi buildings.

“A sum of Rs 21 lakh released by the government should be utilised effectively,” she said.

Members said that several anganwadi centres did not have any infrastructure. The work on a few anganwadi buildings have remained incomplete.

CDPO Madappa said an action plan will be prepared to provide infrastructure to anganwadi centres. As many as six anganwadi centres are yet to be repaired.

Taluk veterinary officer Dr Chidananda said the sanctioned posts of veterinary doctors in the taluk was eight.

But, only two doctors are functioning. “Without doctors, we had to close a few hospitals,” he said.

source: http://www.DeccanHerald.com / Home> District / Madikeri, DHNS / June 28th, 2012

A more student-friendly admission process is being implemented by Mangalore University this year, paving the way for students to select the course of their choice at one go.

The university will achieve this through the centralised admission and counselling system for admitting students to its postgraduate courses from the academic year 2012-13, according to Vice-Chancellor T.C. Shivashankara Murthy.

He told The Hindu that it would apply for admitting students to postgraduate courses on the Mangalagangotri campus and its two constituent colleges – the University College in the city and Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa College in Madikeri.

Registrar (Administration) K. Chinnappa Gowda said that the university had formed a centralised admission committee to address issues related to the new process.

Mr. Gowda said that all departments would have to be ready with a consolidated merit list of applicants on June 25. They would have to announce the consolidated merit list, first selection list, and the waiting list by June 28. All the lists would be uploaded to the university’s website by different departments by June 28. The committee would also have lists of all departments. Students would be admitted to all science courses on April 29 and all arts and commerce courses on April 30 through counselling. As students would come to know the status of their applications in different departments by June 28, they could weigh the options and zero in on the course of their choice. Mr. Gowda said that earlier various departments conducted admission on different dates. In the absence of uniformity, students who had applied for admission in more than one department would have to wait for days before zeroing in on a course. Consequently, it was common for students hopping from one department to another during admission time.

“Till last year, the admission process took two weeks. This year it will be completed in two days,” Mr. Gowda said.

The university would take over the process of admitting students to postgraduate courses offered by government degree colleges (or first grade colleges) from 2012-13. However, the new procedure would not be applicable to admissions to these colleges. The takeover was attributed to the university’s observation that the government degree colleges were not adhering to the rules of admission, he said.

The Vice-Chancellor said that the process of filling 50 per cent postgraduate seats (government quota) in private and government-aided private degree colleges as was being done by the university in previous years would continue this year also. About 32 private and government aided private degree colleges offered postgraduate courses. It would not apply to autonomous degree colleges.

He said that all postgraduate seats in government degree colleges would be filled by the university this year. There were about 10 government degree colleges offering postgraduate courses. Principals of these colleges were given the seat matrix at a meeting on June 1.

He said that the university would advertise and invite applications. It would scrutinise them and allot seats.

Mr. Gowda said that students would have to apply separately for the postgraduate courses in the university and its two constituent colleges and for postgraduate courses offered by private degree colleges and government colleges.

In respect of colleges, applications would have to be collected and filed in respective colleges, he said. The university would publish an advertisement to this effect this week, he added.

source: http://www.TheHindu.com / News> Cities> Mangalore / by RaviPrasad Kamila / Mangalore, June 05th, 2012

Of 7,490 students appearing for the SSLC examinations in 2011 in Kodagu district, 6,181 have passed, including repeaters, amounting to 82.52 per cent, according to information received here on Thursday.

Girls account for higher pass percentage as usual with 85.93 followed by boys with 79.08. Although Kodagu recorded 2.43 per cent higher pass than last year, it slipped one rung, finishing 13th in the State among the districts against the 12th place last year, according to N.A. Ramaswamy, Deputy Director of Public Instruction, Kodagu.

Girls outsmarted boys in urban and rural centres in the district recording a pass percentage of 85.69 in the rural areas against 79.11 of boys and 86.18 in the urban centres against 79.08 achieved by the boys.

Pass percentage in Kodagu during 2011 was 80.09 while it was 72.76 in 2010.

A total of 3,656 boys appeared for the examination and out of them 2,892 passed while among the 3,834 girls appearing for the exams, 3,289 passed out.

A total of 245 students passed with distinction, 2,161 with first class, 1,414 with second class the rest passes. There are 148 high schools in Kodagu district — 47 government schools, 48 aided schools, and 53 unaided schools. Of the 20 schools which achieved 100 per cent results, Makkandur and Kanbail schools were government schools and the rest unaided institutions. Last year, 15 schools in Kodagu had secured 100 per cent results.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / National> Karnataka / by Staff Correspondent / Mysore, May 18th, 2012

The department of public instruction, in view to help Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribe and other Backward Class children, has implemented the Right to Education (RTE) Act.

N A Ramaswamy, deputy director, said the Act would benefit as many as 630 students in the district. As per the Act, a total of 25 per cent of the total seats should be reserved for children from weaker section of society. Accordingly, a total of 630 students in 81 un-aided schools in three educational blocks would be benefited.

As per the Act, 7.5 per cent seats should be reserved for Scheduled Caste, 1.5 per cent of seats for Scheduled Tribe, and the remaining 16 per cent of seats for orphans, street children and wanderers belonging to backward class, physically disabled (40 per cent) and HIV infected children.

Accordingly, a total of 191 seats would be reserved for SCs, 36 for STs and the remaining 403 seats for other categories mentioned above. The fees for the said students would be paid by the government in two instalments. Applications for such seats under quota may be availed from schools concerned or the office of the block education officers.

Rama Murthy said the decision on category of children — whether orphan, wanderer or street children — will be decided based on the certificate issued by the women and child welfare department, education department and labour departments respectively. Similarly, admission to HIV infected children will be decided based on the certificate issued by health and family welfare department.

Unfilled seats of Schedule Caste can be given to Schedule Tribe students and the decision on other seats will be taken by the school heads concerned. Taluk education officer and headmasters will be responsible for allotting seats. However, the quota will not be applicable for minority schools.

For more details, people can contact the department of public instruction or call on toll free number 1800-425-11016.

source: http://www.DeccanHerald.com / Home> District / DHNS / Madikeri, May 16th, 2012

Caption: MP A.H. Vishwanath being felicitated at a function held at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (BVB) Garwale School in Madikeri yesterday. Others seen are (from left) BVB Kodagu Kendra Chairman K.P. Uthappa, BVB Mysore Kendra Vice-Chairman K.B. Ganapathy, BVB Karnataka Chairman N. Ramanuja and BVB Mysore Kendra Chairman A.V. Narasimha Murthy.

Madikeri, Apr. 9 (GG&KMC)
MP A.H. Vishwanath yesterday announced a grant of Rs. 20 lakh for the school adopted by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (BVB), located in Garwale, a remote village in Madikeri taluk, Kodagu district.

Speaking at a function held in his honour at the school, Vishwa-nath said that he would donate his collection of 16 volumes of Vachana Sahitya to the sch-ool’s library which he said was well-stacked with 5,000 books on different subjects and languages.

He also expressed gratitude to the Geejaganda family that donated 35 acres of their land for the school.

“The school, which had been closed for four years, has been fast developed into a model educational institution in a short span of time by the BVB Mysore Kendra,” said the MP and lauded the efforts of BVB Karnataka Chairman N. Ramanuja, BVB Mysore Chairman Prof. A.V. Narasimha Murthy, Vice-Chairman K.B. Ganapathy and Hon. Secretary P.S. Ganapathy.

Prof. Narasimha Murthy said in his welcome address that all the office-bearers of BVB Mysore have pledged to make the Garwale School into a model institution. “We have spent Rs. 1.80 crore on the school for its infrastructure development and intend to do more,” he said.

K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief, Star of Mysore, speaking on the occasion, assured to lead BVB as per the vision of its Founder K.M. Munshi, as an Educational Trust. “Our objective is to build a quality educational institution for the people of Garwale and its surroundings, where basic amenities are still a pipe dream. We intend to raise the school’s standard to such a level that parents must voluntarily offer donations to admit their wards to the school,” he said.

BVB Kodagu Kendra Chairman K.P. Uthappa and others were present.

source: http://www.StarofMysore.com / General News / April 09th, 2012