Bangalore, May 12, 2012: The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan will initiate “Shalegagi Naavu Neevu’ (community towards school) for better implementation of the Right to Education Act. The programme will be initiated across the State from July 5.

The programme aims at a community inclusive approach to upgrade the quality of schools.
Representatives and public will sit together in the respective schools and come up with ideas to improve the infrastructure and strive for academic excellence.

Bangalore, May 11, 2012: Majority of the schools in the City remain ignorant about the Right to Education Act (RTE), just 15 days before the last day for economically backward students to submit application for the reserved seats.

Confusion on the part of the schools has left the future of economically backward students at stake. Under RTE, May 25 is the last date for students of the economically weaker sections to apply for 25 per cent reservation seats.

Bangalore, M<ay 11, 2012: Schools can register online; a separate portal on cards

The Department of Education has developed a software to enable schools register online as required under the Right to Education (RTE) Act. The software, developed with the assistance of an in-house team of the Department over the last 15 days, will be put up as a link on the school education website for a period of one week.

During this period, the schools can register themselves online and also leave their feedback on the page.

Bangalore, May 9, 2012: Residents of this colony are forced to defecate on railway tracks, open ground or among bushes, because there are only 40 toilets for 500 houses here!

This is the pitiful state of the residents of the locality on the HMT Watch Factory-Jalahalli Road. What may seem like sheer incivility of the people is a situation they have been pushed into.

Bangalore, April 15, 2012: Expressing concern at the lack of sanitation facilities in backward regions of the state, Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda announced to enhance the subsidy for constructing individual toilets in such places from the existing Rs 3,000 to Rs 10,000.

Mangalore, March 22, 2012: With an aim to eradicate manual scavenging completely from the State, the Karnataka Government has issued strict orders that only machines should be used to clean soak pits, septic tanks and manual labour should not be employed for the work.

According to a circular issued to Zilla Panchayats in State by Karnataka Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Principal Secretary Amitha Prasad, every taluk in the State has been directed to buy four sucking machines of 1000 litre capacity or two sucking machines of 3,000 litre capacity.

Bangalore, Feb 28, 2012: Unhappy with how the State government has acted so far in abolishing manual cleaning sewer systems, an angry high court on Tuesday summoned Urban Development Department (UDD) Secretary Arvind Shrivastava, to appear in person before the court. A division bench, headed by Chief Justice
Vikramajit Sen, which ordered summons on the secretary, also observed that if the State fails to take steps, it would summon the ministers concerned in future.

Bangalore, Feb 4, 2012: Divergent views emerged on how the city is going to solve an impending water crisis at the Bangalore World Water Summit’s concluding day on Friday. “Bangalore is on its way to a very large water crisis if action is not taken immediately. On the health front, too, it is heading toward an epidemic outbreak due to poor sanitation,” said Prof Seetharam Kallidaikurichi, director; Institute of Water Policy.

Bangalore, Jan 31, 2012: Bangalore Water Supply And Sewerage Board (BWSSB) Chairperson Gaurav Gupta on Tuesday sought more time from the High Court to procure additional machines to clean the areas which do not have sewerage system.

He said 76 machines have performed 4,365 mechanised cleanings so far, and orders have been placed for more machines. The vehicles imported from Europe need to be certified as per the Indian standards, the chairperson said.