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Stateurged
tocelebrate
Narayana
GuruJayanti
KALABURAGI,

DHNS:

Narayana Guru Dharma Paripalana Association State unit

has urged the State government to celebrate the Jayanti
of Narayana Guru, one of the
great socio-religious reformers
of country, and has decided to
take out a month-long Sandesh
Rath Yatra from Bidar to Bangaluru from November 2.
Speaking to media persons
here on Monday, Association
State President K Saidappa
Guttedar said that in the past
the Association had urged the
state government to celebrate
the Jayanti of Narayana Guru
and had even held protests and
demonstrations. However, the
State has not responded positively. This has forced them to
take out a Sandesh Yatra all
over the State. The yatra will
start from Bidar on Nov 12 and
culminate in Bangaluru on December 12. A mammoth public
meeting will be held on that
day and latter a memorandum
will be submitted to the chief
minister, Saidappa Guttedar
said.
Mr Guttedar said that
Narayana Guru had launched
a movement to bring about social, religious and educational
equality among the backward
classes and exploited sections
of the society. He had also
launched a movement to eradicate untouchability and instilled self confidence and self
respect among the downtrodden. Therefore, government
should honour the great Guru
by celebrating his jayanti.
Mr Guttedar said in the pat
central government had honoured Narayana Guru by bringing out commemorative stamp
and coin. But the State government has done nothing. State
government policy was not
good and therefore it has been
decided to bring pressure on
the government, Mr Guttedar
added.

Raichur, Vijaypur & Yadgir

Govt stand goes against promise

Srinivas Sirnoorkar
KALABURAGI: It is a disappointing development for
the farming community of
the country.

The farmers and their organisations have been eagerly

waiting and agitating for the
Central government to implement the recommendation of
the National Commission on
Farmers headed by Dr M S
Swaminathan with regard to
fixing minimum support price
(MSP) for agriculture produce
at the actual cost of cultivation
plus 50 per cent on it. But they
are in imminent shock as the
Centre has given enough indication against implementing
the vital recommendation.
In an affidavit filed before

the Supreme Court in response

to the writ petition filed by the
Consortium of Indian Farmers
Associations (CIFA) seeking
implementation of recommendations of Swaminathan Commission, the Centre has made
it clear that it was not possible
to implement the same on the
ground that it may distort the
market and prove counter productive.
It is reiterated that the MSP
recommended by Commission
on Agricultural Costs and
Prices (CACP) on objective criteria considering variety of relevant factors. Hence, prescribing an increase of at least 50
per cent on cost may distort the
market. A mechanical linkage
between MSP and cost of production may be counter productive in some cases, the af-

Matoshree Mahadevamma Nagappa Munnoor Pratishthan of

Sedam in Kalaburagi district
has invited literary works published in the year 2014-15 for
the annual Amma Award. The
authors have been asked to
send two copies of the book of
any form in Kannada literature
such as short story, novel, poetry, editing, research, translation, criticism, essay, etc. The
last date for sending entries is
October 30.
Pratishthan Founder Convener Mahipalreddy Munnoor
said that five writers will be selected for award. Each award
carries ~ 5,000, citation and
felicitation.
The awards will be presented at a function on November
26. Books should be sent to:
Mahadevamma Nagappa
Munnoor Pratishthan, Amma
Mane, Ramachandra Layout,
G K Cross, Udagi Road,
Sedam- 585222.

Farmer
endslife
KEMBHAVI, DHNS: A farmer

committed suicide by consuming pesticide at Naganur village

unable to bear the debt burden
on Monday.
The deceased has been identified as Halleppa Kanakappa
Hawaldar (55). He had borrowed ~ 55,000 loan from
Naganur KGB Bank and another ~ 2 lakh from private
money lenders. The crops he
had cultivated failed and unable to repay the loans he ended the life, the family sources
informed.
He was rushed to Kembhavi
community health centre but
he breathed his last on way, the
sources added. A case has been
registered at Kembhavi Police
Station.

fidavit filed by Ram Naresh,

Under Secretary, Ministry of
Agriculture, Department of
Agriculture and Co-operation,
New Delhi, said.
It is highly shocking. The
stand of the government goes
against the promise made by
the Bharatiya Janata Party in
its manifesto for the 2014 Lok
Sabha elections under the leadership of Narendra Modi, who
subsequently became the
prime minister. After coming
to power BJP has developed a
cold feet. It amounts to blatant
breach of public trust,reacted
Basavaraj Ingin, chairman of
Pulses Committee of CIFA. Mr
Ingin, who is also the president
of the Karnataka Pradesh Red
Gram Growers Association, a
prominent constituent of the
CIFA, said a time has come for

the farming community to

launch a nation wide agitation
to pressurise BJP to implement
the recommendation as promised in its manifesto.
The affidavit has taken the
stand that MSP recommended
by CACP was final as it had
gone deep in to all issues concerning pricing of farm produces after consulting all stake
holders particularly farmers
organisations.
The affidavit states that
CACP recommends MSP for
22 agricultural commodities
and also recommends Fair and
Remunerative Prices (FRP) for
sugarcane. While recommending MSPs for these commodities the cost of production, demand and supply, price trends
in domestic and international
markets, inter-crop price pari-

ty, terms of trade between agricultural and non-agricultural

sectors, the likely impact of
MSPs on consumers, etc; besides rational utilisation of natural resources like land, water
are taken in to account.
It also states that the CACP
was aware of the fact that MSP
was a policy instrument for
safeguarding the interests of
farmers. As such, before finalisation of its price policy reports the CACP undertakes
field visits and hold interactions
with all concerned. Fixing
MSP is not a cost plusexercise,
though cost is an important determinant of MSP. The pricing
policy seeks to achieve the objective of fair and remunerative
prices and is not an income policy, the affidavit said.
DH News Service

IIT struggle gathers more

support from organisations
Muslim members from Matamari stage protest
RAICHUR: The struggle for
the establishment of Indian
Institute of Technology in
Raichur district has been
gaining support from every
corner in the HyderabadKarnataka region and on
Monday the Muslim community members of Matamari village staged a protest
demonstration at Ambedkar
Circle.

Bengalgram seed packets being distributed from the lorry itself in front of the agriculture centre at Chadachan in Vijaypur district. DH PHOTO

CHADACHAN:

DHNS:

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

At a glance

MSP: Centre may not implement Swaminathan panel recommendation

Farmers wait for days to

Literaryworks get Bengalgram seeds
The farmers pa Chavan of Anachi said that
invitedfor
have been facing severe diffi- he had been visiting the agriculty in getting bengalgram culture centre since 15 days for
this season and they seeds.
Ammaaward seeds
could be seen waiting in serHe should come to
KALABURAGI,

pentine queues before the

Raitha Sampark Kendras to get
the seeds on subsidised rates
every day.
Even after waiting for the
whole day they do not get adequate quantity of seeds. Hundreds of farmers from Shiradona, Hattalli, Baradola,
Loni, and Anachi villages stand
in queues from early morning.
On Friday, the farmers had to
return without seeds as the
stock was over.
The government should
make proper arrangements to
supply adequate seeds in such
a situation. Farmers could not
get kharif crops and if they
could not cultivate the rabi
crops too, they would incur
heavy loss and fail to earn their
daily bread, said farmer N L
Ajur. Another farmer Ningap-

The dharna of IIT Manjurati

Horata Samithi continued and
the leaders were insisting the
governments to take a firm decision of setting up the prestigious technical institution in
Raichur itself to eradicate the
regional imbalance as per the
recommendations of the Nanjundappa Committee.
The protesters on Monday
termed the plan to set up the
institution in Dharwad as a
conspiracy played against the
backward district Raichur.
Even the successive governments in the State had

favoured the establishment of

IIT in Raichur itself. The BJP
government in its cabinet
meeting held in Kalaburagi
had taken a decision to recommend the Centre to establish
IIT in Raichur itself. Still, Chief
Minister Siddaramaiah recommended two more districts in
the State. This had deprived
Raichur district from getting
the noted educational institution, they alleged.
The governments should focus on removing the regional
imbalances in the development
front. They should understand
the responsibility and take action to establish IIT in Raichur
district, they demanded.
The protesters participated
in the dharna being staged
near Mahatma Gandhi statue
at the stadium.
Hyderabad-Karnataka Horata Samithi leader Razak Ustad
said that the intellectuals of
Dharwad had been trying to
project themselves and highly
intelligent personalities. They

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Panchayat has taken up the

Maski Nala left and right canal
cleaning work under the employment guarantee scheme.
Hundreds of labourers were
employed for the canal cleaning work since one week and
brought a relief to the farmers
in the catchment area on getting water for irrigating the
crops.
The Irrigation Consultative
Committee meeting held at
Maski Nala site recently under

the chairmanship of Lingasgur

Assistant Commissioner Y B
Shantharaju had decided to desilt the canals under the employment guarantee scheme so
that the labourers would get
employment as well as the
farmers get water.
The Gram Panchayat has
prepared 1,335 job cards and
created employment for 250
labourers for 15 days. Action
plan was prepared and ~ 7
lakh was reserved for the desiltation of canals, informed

tablishment of IIT in Raichur. DH PHOTO

Maraladinni Panchayat Development Officer Channamallayya Swamy.

He said that even after 15
days if the desiltation was not
completed the labourers would
be employed and work would
be ensured.
Adavibhavi Gram Panchayat
has prepared an action plan of
~ 9 lakh for the desiltation of
right bank canal. As and when
the Zilla Panchayat approves
the plan, the 9 km long right
bank canal would also be

Festival begins

cleaned, he said. Canals could

not be cleaned due to fund
shortage in the Water Resources Department for the
past many years. However, now
the canals were being cleaned
utilising the Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme benefit.
This has brought cheers
among the farmers in the
catchment area as this would
ensure irrigation for around
7,500 acres.
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Super Market in Kalaburagi on Monday witnessing a brisk buying by people on the eve of Nava Ratra festival beginning from October 13. DH PHOTO

Fundsgiven
fortemples
SURPUR, DHNS: The State

government has sanctioned ~

48 lakh aid for the renovation
of various places of worship in
the taluk, informed MLA Raja
Venkatappa Nayak.
The renovation works would
be launched soon with the disbursal of sanctioned funds
from the Endowment
Department to repsective religious places, the MLA informed.

Seminar held on changing

trends in Hindi literature
VIJAYPUR: The UGC spon-

Village road washed away

YADGIR, DHNS: The down-

pour that lashed the district a

week ago had caused damages to roads and bridges in
many villages.
As the road connecting
Hayyal (b) with Hanchanal
village was washed away in
the rainwater the people of
Hanchinal, Kadamgera,
Kurkundi and others in Shahapur taluk had been facing
severe inconvenience. the
road connectivity is cut for
many villages and the students who used to travel
every day for schooling were
worst affected, villagers explained. Now the students
should walk a five km every

its vocabulary and syntax. He

said that one must have a good
knowledge of the historical
events, development civilisation and culture to understand
the changing trends of a language.
He also emphasised the role
of a teacher in popularising a
language and reaching it to the
students.
Principal A D Navalagund
who presided over the inaugural function of the seminar
spoke about the role of a language teacher in nation building activities.
Hindi Department faculty
member S J Jahagirdar welcomed.

sored one-day Hindi National

Seminar on Changing Trends
in Hindi Literature of 21st Centurywas conducted by the Anjuman Degree College here on
Saturday.
Prof Devaraj of the Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi
University of Wardha delivered
the keynote address of the seminar.
He narrated how the Hindi
language had been influenced
by the pre-independence, post
independence and medieval
period.
He spoke at length about the
impact of globalisation, modernisation and economic reforms on Hindi language and DH News Service

day to reach Hayyal (b) for

the high school. The villagers
and devotees should also
walk now to reach the historical Hayyal Lingeshwara
temple or should hire private
vehicles to reach the temple.
As the main road is washed
away, the NEKRTC Yadgir
and Shahapur bus depot
stopped the bus service. The
officials concerned had not
taken action to repair the
road so far, they alleged.
Zilla Panchayat Vice-President Hanumegouda Marakal
said that the Public Works
Department officials would
be asked to take up the road
repair immediately.

Give compassionate job

KALABURAGI, DHNS: Joint

Director of the District Industries Centre (DIC) has

asked the Oriental Cements,
Mugta, Chittapur taluk of the
district, to provide an employment to the son of a
farmer who had recently
committed suicide on compassionate and humanitarian
grounds.
In a letter to the Managing
Director of the Oriental Cements the DIC Joint Director
stated that Mahadev Maindargi had given a representa-

tion seeking employment on

humanitarian ground following suicide of his father
Shankar Maindargi. Shramajeevigala Karmika Sangha
President Chandrashekhar
Hiremath had also demanded to provide a compassionate job to a member of the
family of the farmer who had
ended his life as the family
was in severe distress. The
deputy commissioner too
had written to the cement
factory to consider the request.

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Chadachan leaving his routine

works at the village and wait
for the seeds, he added.
More than 1,200 packets,
each having 20 kg bengalgram
seeds, were distributed to farmers earlier. In the second round,
500 packets were being distributed. Confusions were created
in the distribution due to some
farmers getting two copies of
land rights and all the farmers
rushing at a time to get the
seeds.
Farmers were asked to bring
identity proof too along with
the copy of their land rights,
said Raitha Sampark Kendra
official L P Kattimani. He said
that another four lorry loads of
seed packets would arrive in a
week and this would help overcome the shortage.
Muslims from Matamari village staging a protest in Raichur on Monday demanding the es-

GP takes up Maski Nala desiltation work

MASKI: Maraladinni Gram

had commented that the people of Raichur were living in an

illusion of development if the
IIT was established in the district. But Hyderabad-Karnataka region also had intellectuals.
The people were not in illusion
of getting a better development
projects with the establishment
of IIT. They had seen the
progress of establishing thermal power projects in the district.
The people were well aware
about the developments. Moreover, the Nanjundappa Committee report had mentioned
that the interest in higher education among the people in the
backward regions would increase with the establishment
of IIT in Raichur, Mr Razak
said.
The relay hunger strike entered 29th day on Monday. The
leaders continued their struggle while various organisations
from the taluks also extended
their support for the agitation.

Hayyal (b) to Hanchanal road washed away due to rain in

Yadgir district. DH PHOTO

AMARA BAVANIDEV
October 13 , 2015

ARIES
Mar 21-Apr 20

LIBRA
Sep 24-Oct 23

Colour: Magenta.
Number: 1

roon
Number: 7

Your intellectual energy is

heightened, so its a great
time for brainstorming or discussing your plans. Home,
domestic arrangements and
family relationships bog you
down unless you are ready to
make changes.

TAURUS
Apr 21-May 21

Be careful not to push your

luck or take too much for
granted when dealing on either a personal or a professional level today. You are irritable today and surprise
others with a temper
tantrum. Watch out. Try not
to go over the top.
Colour: Emerald.
Number: 2

GEMINI
May 22- Jun 21

Mercury adds glow to your intelligence. Sensitive Gemini

will feel fine-tuned to the
emotions of those around
them. Great day for leisure
and romance. Take care not
to go overboard in your use of
credit.
Colour: Pistachio. Number: 6

CANCER
June 22-July 22

Someone envious of your

popularity may challenge you
to a debate. Keep your cool.
Talks with business people
may lead to important opportunities. Colour: White. Number: 8

LEO
July 23-Aug 21

You confront an issue that is

hidden or forgotten from the
past. Emotions are heightened today. Money issues in
the forefront, making you
aware of your lack of investment plans.
Colour: Pink. Number: 5

VIRGO
Aug 22-Sep 23

A new business venture could

happen today At home, a
male relative is unduly aggressive. Today and tomorrow, you may be dealing with
issues revolving around fears,
obsessions.
Colour: Gold.
Number: 4

Your charm wins the support of others. A pilgrimage

in the offing. A seminar
proves a social setting for
contacts. Expect celebrations and a reunion with old
friends. A trip with a romantic partner likely. Colour: Ma-

SCORPIO
Oct 24-Nov 22

Contacts or plans with siblings may not go so well. But

you can negotiate favourable
contracts and partnerships
now. Try not to obsess over
things from the past.
Make the most of your
present moment.
Colour: Yellow.
Number: 3

SAGITTARIUS
Nov 23-Dec 22

Avoid being self-critical in

career matters. Cash flow
good. A friend is not what he
seems. You will be misinterpreted if you get involved in
other people's problems.
Colour: Violet.
Number:9

CAPRICORN
Dec 23-Jan 20

Career prospects look good.

Long due recognition for
work done may come now.
Family matters go smoothly.
Careful what you say about
other people's lives, you
could end up giving away information you shouldnt.
Colour: Sky-blue.
Number: 2

AQUARIUS
Jan 21-Feb 19

With Jupiter aspecting marriage/ relationship, you are

on a roll. Stand up for yourself before you end up falling
over due to stress. Remember your strengths and draw
on them. Colour: Velvet
black.
Number: 1

PISCES
Feb 20-Mar 20

Nobody questions your intelligence, but you need to be

less erratic in your close relationships. Incomplete work
will bring the wrath of your
boss upon you.
Colour: Purple Number: 4