Weeklong festivities at Kachur Maldi Devi temple, Barkur

Best education creates more opportunities in a competitive world. Children must be educated based on their interests and only education is key for the overall development of the society, said Home Minister, Dr.V.S.Acharya. He was speaking at the Dharmika Sabha held on the occasion of the annual festivities of Kachur Maldi Devi and Babbuswami Moolasthana.

He promised that he will grant financial assistance for the development of the temple after discussing the matter with the Chief Minister.

Minister for higher education Aravinada Limbavali said that he will try to increase the scholarships provided for the students belonging to backward castes and tribes. He said more efforts will be put to develop the Kachur Maldi Devi temple.

An application regarding the helps required to further develop the temple was handed over to the ministers at the same time.

Eashwar Saligrama was honored at the occasion for his fantastic stone carvings provided for the temple.

MLA Raghupathi Bhat, Lalaji Mendon, Jilla Panchayath Member Shankar Poojari, B.Shantharama Shetty, President , Barkur Grama Panchayath, Halekodi Shankar Poojari, Mescom Engineer Shrinivasa, Taluk Panchayath member Sathish Poojari, Dinakakara Shetty, President Udupi Muncipality, Vasu Belagola, Sankappa Belooru, Chennappa Mulki, President, Renovation Committee, Thalloru Rama, Eashwara Babugudda, Kamalakhsha Barkur and others were present as the chief guests.

General Secretary Gokuldas Barkur briefed about the temple and its development plans. Seetharama welcomed and Sanjeeva conducted the proceedings.

Ministers, MLA and other guests offered their prayers at the temple.

Bailakere Deepothsava was held on the same occasion. Festivities were on for about a week and more than 15000 devotees from all over the undivided Dakshina Kannda districts visited the shrine which is gaining its popularity day by day and year by year. Various cultural programmes were also staged on both days which are enjoyed and appreciated by the public.

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Children’s Literary Convention to held at Barkur

The ‘Ninth Annual Conference of Children Literature’ a much acclaimed eagerly awaited annual event jointly organized by Shanthivana Trust, Shrikshethra, Dharmastala, www.barkuronline.com, Shri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Belagavi and Swami Vivekananda Samskrithika Kendra, Barkur will be held at Barkur on Sunday, 25^th January, 2009 at Gurudev Bhuvan, Shivagiri Kshetra, Near Kalchapra, Barkur.

Apart from the exposition and exploration of children talents in writing, both prose and poetry, it will be attended by renowned educators interested in children‘s and adolescent literature.

Kavi Ghosti of budding poets & poetess moderated by Vitthal Gaonkar, Educational Officer Karkala Cluster, lectures by experts like haridasa Shri B.C. Rao, Shivapaura and Pattabhirama Sullia in Kannada Children literary works,  two discussions schedules – one in the morning and the other in the afternoon and the valedictory programme to wind up with the distribution of prizes / certificates to all participants and honoring the state level achievers from the locality, will constitute the proceedings of one full day. Moreover all these events, compeered, monitored and presented by children only.

Kumari Sumalatha, a 10^th standard student from Government P.U.College, Kokkarne will be the president of the conference , while Ambathanaya Mudradi, President , Udupi District Kannada Sahithya Parishath  has consented to the inauguration. S. Vasantha Shetty, Regional Education Officer will release the book of collection of written by high school students. Many great achievers in their respective field like H. Chandra Shekhara Kedlaya of Nirmala Highschool Brahmavar, Best Teacher award winner from the State Government, Kumari Priya nayak, a 7^th standard student who won bronze medal in national level in Yoga, Kumari Sharadhi Patil, State level first place winner in the singing competitions and many others  are recognized to be honored on these occasion.

Eric Soans Barkur  a noted Kannada/Konkanni  Story writer and poet of the Thururutthuthu Konkanni CD fame will be chief guest at the  valedictory programme, has agreed to distribute the certificates to the participants.

Kumari Pallavi Sajangadde, Kumari Pavithra Shettigar, Kumari Harshitha Joshi and Kumari Ashwini Udupa will be at the helm of the days affairs as conductors of the proceedings.

As in the past such meetings, this time too, the organizers briefed to the media, that all arrangements will be made to ensure that the forthcoming get-together will encourage high standards of criticism, research and teaching in children’s literature.

All are cordially welcome to take part as we feel such conferences will enter a conversation that motivate one’s teaching or ignite one’s writing in days to come. One perhaps carry a message or book that extends an idea shared by the expert speakers…or may it be an occasion to leave you refreshed and inspired to read, write, teach and learn with deeper intensity and joy.

Next year is the 10^th anniversary of this unique convention at Barkur and organizers are gearing up to make the event a grand celebration of children’s literature.

Team barkuronline.com is proud to be associated with these events for the last seven years and urge all our visitors to support whole heartedly to this noble and worthy cause.

A talented and bright student from Barkur

Rohith Rao, son of  P. Jayaram Rao and Shobha J Rao, residents of  Hari Kripa,   near railway station , Barkur secured 2^nd place in Udupi district by Scoring 96.2% in Kannada medium in SSLC board exams conducted last year while he was student of 10^th standard at National Pre- University College, Barkur.

Rohith is currently studying his pre university first year at Vidyodaya Pre- University Collage, Udupi in science stream. Apart from academics he excels in extra curricular activities and a sort of all rounder. Recently he won many prizes on the prize distribution day at National Pre- University College, Barkur for his excellent performance in the last academic year.

Team barkuronline.com takes this opportunity to congratulate this young achiever and wish him all the best in his future. His father Jayaram Rao runs a watch selling/ repairing shop at Barkur.

Blood Donation Camp at Barkur

Rotary Club Barkur, Red Cross & NSS units of Smt.Rukmini Shedthi Memorial Government First Grade College Barkur jointly organized  the blood camp at Barkur  Rotary building hall. The Camp was inaugurated by Mr. Dinesh, Manager, Corporation Bank Heradi branch and presided by Mr. Ganesh Vakuda.

Chief guests Mr. Sharath Kumar, Chief  of the Blood bank   at government hospital, Rajshekar Hebbar, Principal of the Collage, Dr. Nagbhushan Udupa, K Vasudeva Shetty,  Secretary, Rotary Barkur. Organizer K. Gokuldas Kamath, Ronald Praveen, Lecturer, and NSS Director Mohan Singh others were present on the stage. B. Sudhakar Rao conducted the proceedings.           

Annual Day celebrated at NPUC Barkur

Annual prize distribution day was celebrated at the National Pre University College Barkur on 30th Decemeber. Well known elderly  doctor from Barkur Dr.N.C. Kalkur and Kishore Gonsalves of www.barkuronline.com were the chief guests for the programme.

Proficiency awards were distributed to the  students who excelled in academics in the yearby  Kishoo Barkur. Dr. N.C. Kalkur distributed the prizes for the various winners of the cultural competitions. B. Seetharama Shetty, Retired Principal and Secretary of the College Managing committee gave away the prizes for the winners of sports.

Krsihnamoorthi Bhat, Principal read out the reports of the college and advised the students to keep up the 100% result achieved by the students of year.

B.N. Badigeri lecturer welcomed the gathering. Variety entertainment programmes were presented by high school and pre university students.

Brahmavar-Barkur Citizen's Forum Felicitates Achievers

Brahmavar-Barkur Nagarika Samiti organized a felicitation programme for the achievers at the Dharmavara Auditorium near Brahmavar at 5.30 pm on Wednesday, December 24.

Presiding over the function, Dr B M Hegde, retired vice-chancellor of Manipal University, inaugurated the programme while Dr G P Shetty, agricultural scientist, inaugurated the newly renovated air conditioned hall.

Dr B M Hegde felicitated Dr Kadangudu Jayaram Shetty, internationally renowned scientist and Kishore Gonsalves, UAE of www.barkuronline.com, on the occasion.

B. Sitaram Shetty, vice-president of the forum and Eric Soans read out the citations. Dr B M Hegde and Dr G P Shetty too were honored on the occasion.

Delivering the key note address on the occasion, Dharmaraj Shetty,   founder president of Bramavar-Barkur Citizen's Forum, spelt out his dreams about transforming twin towns of Bramavar-Barkur  into a  model town in the next ten years and  explained about the projects and programmes that need to be taken up to realize this dream. He expressed the opinion, that the main focus of the people should be on agriculture for future development.

Dr G P Shetty, Barkur Dharmaraj Shetty, K K Nair, President, Padmanabha Kanchan,   Secretary of the forum  were present.

K K Naik welcomed the gathering. Sudhakar Rao compeered the programme. Padmanabha Kanchan proposed vote of thanks.

Later 'Janapada Sanje', a programme by Kala Jagattu, Mangalore was presented.

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-News and pics by Kevin Rodrigues,Daijiworld Media Network- Udupi

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