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KARNATAKA Mysuru district achieves 94.98% coverage in pulse polio drive Mysuru district achieved 94.98% coverage in the pulse polio drive. Of the targeted 2,44,590 children in the age-group of zero to five years, 2,26,340 were administered polio drops. There also were over 27 mobile units stationed at City Railway Station, bus stand … Read more
KARNATAKA Karnataka looks to embrace new agricultural production, marketing tech Karnataka is trying to use technology to improve farm productivity and ensure better prices for farmers. Among other steps, it is encouraging startups that work on technologies that cut out middlemen in agricultural marketing and provide real-time weather and other data that can help … Read more
KARNATAKA Area under agriculture declining in Mysuru Against the availability of 1.54 lakh hectares for agricultural activities, the area under crop cover was only 1.14 lakh hectares and there was a shortfall of 40,000 hectares in terms of coverage. While 11,500 hectares was under sugarcane last year, it was down to 4,500 … Read more
Advance Infrastructure in Rural Areas Good quality infrastructure is critical to sustainable growth, especially for rural areas. As over 60 per cent of the population lives in rural areas, with low levels of per capital income, there is need to impart greater attention in improving rural infrastructure. Currently the rural infrastructure is inadequate to support … Read more
KARNATAKA Karnataka forms committee to make Karnataka the electrical vehicle capital of India The state government formed a high level committee under additional chief secretary for commerce and industries, DV Prasad to prepare a roadmap and incorporate the world’s best practices to create a suitable environment for making Karnataka the Electrical Vehicle capital of the country. … Read more
KARNATAKA Karnataka State Government unveiled an ambitious project to install Wi-Fi facility in all gram panchayats across the state. During this year itself, Wi-Fi facility will be installed in 2500 gram panchayats. The main objective of this project is to bridge the digital divide. Through this project, each and every entrepreneur from the cities and … Read more
Aptitude An aptitude is a component of a competence to do a certain kind of work at a certain level. Outstanding aptitude can be considered “talent”. An aptitude may be physical or mental. Aptitude is inborn potential to do certain kinds of work whether developed or undeveloped. Ability is developed knowledge, understanding, learned or acquired … Read more
Corporate governance Need of corporate governance Over the last two decades, corporate governance has attracted a great deal of public interest because of its apparent importance for the economic health of corporations and society in general. The headlines of the previous two years in particular portrayed a sad story of corporate ethics (or lack thereof). … Read more
KARNATAKA Pesticide-free’ poly-houses are catching on At a time when all things “organic” is the buzzword, poly-houses are becoming a cause for concern due to high pesticide residues in the produce following indiscriminate use of chemicals. In fact, the sustainability of poly-house cultivation is facing a threat as a sizeable number of them … Read more
KARNATAKA 10 election districts have more women voters than men As many as 10 election districts out of the 35 in the State have more women voters than men. In all, the State has nearly 5.07 crore voters — including 2.5 crore women voters, and 5,055 third gender voters — with a gender ratio … Read more