Rail Budget 2010 – Sops for Karnataka

Mamata Banerjee has presented her 2^nd Railway Budget in Lok Sabha yesterday. The budget was welcomed by many people still there were certain things which were missing in the budget.  Mamata has eyed the upcoming election in West Bengal and has given the most sops in this Rail Budget 2010 to West Bengal.

This is a common approach done by each Railway Minister during his tenure to develop his state and city while he is minister. Mamata Banerjee dictated her Budget for about 2 hours and with many innovations and steps taken to improve security, upgrading stations, regional language option to write railways exams and many more trains introduced and extended.

Karnataka being on Non-Congress ruled State has got is fair share during the Rail Budget 2010. Some of the key highlights of Karnataka State are:

New Trains for Karnataka State:

1) Weekly Duronto from Bangalore to Delhi

2) Yeshwantpur – Howrah – 4 times a week

3) Bangalore to Nagarcoil – once a week

4) Bangalore to Tirupathi – 3 times a week

5) Daily train to Shimoga to Mysore

6) Bangalore to Neelmangala via Chikkabanavara – New train

New Rail Line Connection for Karnataka State:

1) New line from Bagalkot to Koduchi

2) Survey for line between Marikuppam and Kuppam , Gauribidanur and Chikkaballapur

With the help of State Government (PPP Model)

1) Line between Hassan and Bangalore, Kadur, Chikmangalu and Saklespur

2) Doubling of the Arsikere – Birur line

3) Gauge conversion between Chikkaballapur and Kolar

New lines with help of State Government (PPP Model).

1) Shimoga – Harihar

2) Whitefield – Kolar

3) Talaguppa – Honnavar

4) Gadag – Haveri

5) Tumkur – Davangiri

6) Bijapur – Shahabad

7) Dharward – Belgaum

More additions to the State were:

1) Adarsh Station at Chikkaballapur, Devanhalli, Doddaballapur, Gauribidanur, Yelahanka

2) Multi functional complexes at Tumkur, Yeshwantpur, Shimoga, Davangere

3) Uniformed attendents for aged and physically challenged at stations

4) Anti-collision devices for rail safety

5) Research and Design unit for wheel sin Bangalore to setup at Railway Wheel Factory

6) Service charges deduct by Rs 10 for Sleeper

7) Service charges deducts by Rs 20 for AC Class

8) E-Ticketing will now be made available at all major hospitals, Courts, IIM, IITs, Universities.

BBMP Election to be conducted by March 30

After all the happenings that is going on for the BBMP Election in Bengaluru city.  The high court has issued an order to conducted the election for all 198 wards in Bengaluru by March 30, 2010.

The order was issue by Karnataka High Court Justice V Gopala Gowda to conduct the election before March 30, without disturbing the academic and other examinations.  Now the Government is looking out for options on how to extend the deadline issue by the High Court, planning to move to Supreme Court for extension of BBMP Polls.

Karnataka Government in order to avoid the election are giving forward all kinds of excuses such as Colleges and school examination, 2011 Census, Summer, shortage of water, electricity and many other reason to move the date of election.

If the Supreme court sticks to the decision of the High Court to go with Election before March 30, then it going to be big challenges for the State election commission and BBMP, to pull up their socks and get the some of the vital thing in place.

1) Voter REgistration which is stopped needed to restarted.

2) Working on the election conduct

3) Mobilizing and assigning the people for the respective areas

Biggest challenges is bringing out the reservation list of wards.

More to come…..

List of Deemed Universities in Karnataka

The universities which have received their deemed status and some universities also a notification from HRD ministry related to loss of their Deemed status.  For which now the notification has been withdrawn and a stay is made on the decision.

Find the list of Deemed Universities in Karnataka State:

Deemed Universities list in Karnataka	City & Address of the Universities	More information aboutUniversities
B.L.D.E. University	Bijapur	B.L.D. E University
Indian Institute of Science	Bangalore-560 012	Indian Institute of Science
International Institute of Information Technology	26/c, Opp. Infosys (Gate – 1), Electronic City, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560 100	International Institute of Information Technology
Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeswara University	Jagadguru Dr. Sri Shivarathri Rajendra Circle, Ramanuja Road, Mysore-570 004	Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeswara University
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research	Jakkur Campus, Jakkur, Bangalore-560 064	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
K.L.E. Academy of Higher Education and Research	J.N.Medical College Campus, Belgaum	K.L.E. Academy of Higher Education and Research
Manipal Academy of Higher Education	Madhav Nagar, Udupi, , Manipal-576 104	Manipal Academy of Higher Education
National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences	Post Box No. 2900, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560 029	National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences
NITTE University	Mangalore 575 003	NITTE University
Sri Devraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research	B. H. Road, Tamaka, Kolar-563 101	Sri Devraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research
Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education	Tumkur district-572 102	Sri Siddhartha Academy of Higher Education
Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana	No. 9, Appajappa Agrahara, Chamarajpet, Bangalore-560 018	Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana
Yenepoya University	Mangalore	Yenepoya University
Christ University	Hosur Road, Bangalore-560 029	Christ University
Jain University	V.V. Puram, Bangalore	Jain University