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Time of India
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- Time of India
Kannada activist Ashok Chandaragi selected for Champa Sirigannada Award
Belagavi: Senior Kannada activist Ashok Chandaragi of Belagavi was selected for the Champa Sirigannada Award, presented in the name of writer Chandrashekhar Patil, by the Karnataka Swabhimani Vedike, Bangalore. The award ceremony will be held on June 18 at 4.30pm at Nayana Auditorium of Ravindra Kalakshetra in Bengaluru. Senior writer Baraguru Ramachandrappa will present the award. The chairman of the Kannada Development Authority Prof Purushottam Bilimale will preside over the event. Kannada Janshakti Kendra President CK Ramegowda and Champa's daughter, deputy commissioner of the labour department, Meena Patil, will be the guests. Cultural programmes have been organised before the award ceremony, said Shankar Hoogar, President of the Karnataka Swabhimani Vedike, in a statement. Follow more information on Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad here . Get real-time live updates on rescue operations and check full list of passengers onboard AI 171 .
New Indian Express
22-04-2025
- General
- New Indian Express
100 more Kalika Kendras to come up in Karnataka to teach Kannada
BENGALURU: After teaching basic Kannada to 2,000 non-Kannadigas in 30 Kalika Kendras (learning centres) in places like the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) and Reserve Bank of India in Bengaluru, the Kannada Development Authority (KDA) is all set to open 100 such centres across Karnataka. In Bengaluru alone, 40 more centres will come up by the end of December. Kannada Development Authority Chairman Purushotham Bilimale said that one centre will come up in an Urdu-dominated locality in Kalaburagi in coordination with Kalaburagi Deputy Commissioner. 'The focus is on conversational Kannada. Thirty-eight hours of classes will be held in three months to teach basic Kannada,' Bilimale said, adding that the idea is not to take up literary Kannada works but just basic Kannada with a local touch. KDA has a budget of Rs 2 crore for the promotion of Kannada and has 75 trained teachers who taught in 30 centres in Bengaluru last year. 'Earlier, some Kannada outfits had an issue with Kannada Development Authority spending money to teach Kannada to non-Kannadigas under the programme. So, KDA is also open to associations coming forward to fund the teaching of the state language. Recently, an association approached KDA to teach Kannada to 500 people from Jharkhand. They will only pay for three months of teaching,' Bilimale said. The focus of Kannada Development Authority is mainly Bengaluru City owing to the heavy influx of migrants from other states. 'In KGF taluk in Kolar district, there is a demand to set up a Kalika Kendra for the Tamil-speaking population. We will set it up soon,' he added.
