Karti Chidambaram, Krishna Byre Gowda, Haris Nalapad felicitate winners of 'Let's Take Charge'
Member of Parliament from Sivaganga Karti P Chidambaram, former Karnataka Rural Development Minister Krishna Byre Gowda and Bengaluru Youth Congress President Mohammed Haris Nalapad on Wednesday felicitated the winners of the solution-seeking campaign ‘Let's Take Charge’. Mr Haris Nalapad had launched this campaign on Karnataka Rajyotsava Day i.e., November 1st. It asked solutions for the flood menace of Karnataka with a messaging that it’s time for the youth to take charge of the situation.
The campaign engaged youth aged 18-35 years in a span of just 9 days and received more than 30,000 suggestions from Karnataka. Youth had shared their suggestions through Google forms, WhatsApp, and Facebook.
Twenty-three years old Sandhya of Chambenahalli Village from Bengaluru district received the first prize and was given Apple I Phone-12 while 24-year-old Karthik R Naik, from Uttar Kannada, was the first runner-up and got Samsung Galaxy A51. 22-year-old Durgaram from Sindhanur of Raichur district stayed third and was given Samsung Galaxy A21 as a prize. 19-year-old Daneshwari from Haveri district stood fourth and got Samsung Tab-A as a prize.
“Let's Take Charge campaign has fulfilled its primary objective of encouraging and engaging youth to share pertinent solutions for persisting issues of Karnataka. This campaign had no participation fee and there was no complicated registration process which helped youth to share their views with us freely,” Mr Nalapad said.
The campaign saw participation of youths from across the state. It was not just limited to the urban belt, but youths from rural areas also participated with great vigour.
The Let's Take Charge campaign had received most number of entries from Bengaluru district with 14,000 while neighboring Mysuru sent 2200, Mandya 1098, Hassan 1022, Chikkamagalur 1002, Tumkuru 888, Dakshina Kannada 1400, Uttara Kannada 1250 and Haveri 1222. Even north districts of Karnataka, such Kalaburagi, Bidar, Raichur, Ballari have sent more than a thousand entries each. Another encouraging part of the contest was the interest shown by girls who have surpassed the boys with 2:1 ratio.
The 'Let's take charge’ campaign has got a phenomenal reach of more than ~3.1 m on social media platforms.
MLA Shri Krishna Byre Gowda who was the Guest of Honour in the event said it’s good to see increased participation of girls (females) in the campaign, who participated in great numbers when compared to boys (men).
Karti P Chidambaram, MP from Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu, who also graced the occasion, as a Guest of Honor said, time has come for the youths to engage more in problem solving process and engage in policy making, politics with great vigour.
“I am proud of the Youth of Karnataka who put in their best efforts to share innovative solutions to make Karnataka the best state,” Mr Nalapad added insisting youth play a prominent role in deciding the future of the state. He said he will organize more such campaigns in the future, too, to raise issues which impact lives of youth and need immediate focus.
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MP boat tragedy: Death toll rises to 10 with recovery of one more body; 3 tourists still missing
Jabalpur (PTI): The body of a child was retrieved on Saturday evening from Bargi Dam in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh, raising the death toll in the cruise boat tragedy that took place two days ago to ten, while search continued for three missing tourists.
The boat, operated by the state tourism department, capsized during a storm on Thursday evening with some of the survivors alleging negligence and safety lapses such as life jackets not being distributed in time.
The body recovered on Saturday evening was possibly that of six-year-old Viraj Soni, said Sub-Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) Anjul Ayank Mishra.
"The identity will be confirmed after family members identify the body," he told PTI.
Kamraj, an employee of the Ordnance Factory at Khamaria, his five-year-old son Tamil, and another child Mayuram (5) who had come from southern India were still missing.
Authorities have arranged equipment to search deep waters of the dam and are getting a generator to facilitate diving operations, Mishra added.
Divers and disaster response teams have expanded the search radius to five km, he said.
Of the 41 identified passengers on board the ill-fated vessel, 28 were rescued, police said.
More than 200 rescuers, including around 20 Army divers airlifted from Agra, joined the search operation that resumed at 5 on Saturday morning. The operation, involving the National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster Response Force and local divers, was briefly affected at around 9 am due to strong winds, officials said.
Post-mortem examinations of nine deceased persons have been completed, Mishra said.
"Our priority is to search for the missing persons. We will also register a First Information Report in the case soon," he said.
Police said CCTV footage near the boarding point showed 43 people heading towards the boat while the identities of 41 passengers have been confirmed so far.
The state government on Friday ordered a probe into the tragedy and dismissed three crew members. It also banned operation of similar vessels in the state.
