A team of officials, led by Assistant Commissioner Prabhuling Kavalikatti, raided a black stone quarry in Vitla in Bantwal taluk and rescued 39 bonded labourers, including some children, on Wednesday. While some of them are from Krishnagiri district in Tamil Nadu, others belong to Kanakapura near Bangalore. They were given meagre wages and were not allowed to leave the quarry for six years, according to Mr. Kavalikatti. He described it as...
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Bank officials held in NREGA fund scam
Two senior bank officials and a Gram panchayat member were arrested on Tuesday for alleged misappropriation of funds to the tune of Rs 30 lakh meant for NREGA in Assam’s Morigaon district, police said. Based on a tip off, Mr Samsuddin Ahmed, branch manager of United Bank of India’s Moirabari unit, was arrested for alleged misappropriation of funds under the NREGA scheme in December last. Another bank officer Mr Homen Chandra Bordoloi...
More »Kisan Swaraj Yatra to reach Chandigarh on 2nd December
The Kisan Swaraj Yatra, a nation-wide mobilization drawing fresh attention to the “continuing agricultural crisis in India”, and calling for a comprehensive new path for Indian agriculture, will reach Chandigarh on December 2, 2010. The bus-Yatra started at the Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram on October 2, and is passing through 20 states before reaching Rajghat, New Delhi on December 11. KSY is organised by all India network of over 400 organisations named...
More »Polavaram project mired in problems by M Venkateswara Rao
The ambitious Polavaram project, the multi-purpose project proposed across the Godavari for making optimum utilisation of water going waste into the sea, is mired in problems. The much-talked about project, aimed at stabilising the century-old Krishna delta and irrigating over 7 lakh acres in the upland areas of East and West Godavari districts, is dogged by uncertainty since it became a bone of contention between different regions and faced with litigation....
More »Prevalence of HIV attributed to illiteracy by Pradeepkumar Kadkol
‘Several interventions for high risk groups have been taken up in Bagalkot' There is an urgent need to involve elected representatives, especially women at the Gram panchayat and taluk panchayat levels to conduct awareness proGrammes on HIV/AIDS, according to Ravi Kittur, a social worker and councillor at the ART Centre in Bijapur district hospital. Mr. Kittur attributes high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in a large number of people in Bijapur and Bagalkot districts...
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