Four colleges propose to teach Tulu in undergraduate courses; University approves one proposal
Mangaluru: Four colleges in the region have proposed before the Mangaluru University to teach Tulu as the second language in its undergraduate programmes from the academic year 2019-2020.
The collefes are P. Dayananda Pai and P. Satish Pai Government First Grade College, car street Mangaluru; Manjunath Pai Memorial Government First Grade College, Karkala; Ramakrishna College, Mangaluru; and SVS College, Bantwal.
The Academic Council of the university has for now approved the request of Government First Grade College at Car Street to teach the language in courses like B.A, B.Com, B.Sc, BCA, BSW and BBA. The decision was taken during the Council’s latest meeting on March 19.
The remaining three colleges have now written to the university seeking permission to teach Tulu as second language from next academic year.
As per the syllabi prepared by university it will be colleges’ call to teach Tulu as second language or as optional paper. It will however be thought as a common paper for all the streams unlike other language papers which differs for difference streams of undergraduate education.
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Congress names candidates for 8 Haryana LS seats, fields Kumari Selja, Deepender Hooda
Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.
The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.
The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.
The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.
Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.
Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.
Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.
