17,266 children brought back into schools: State tells K'taka HC
Bengaluru, Feb 16: The State Government on Thursday informed the High Court of Karnataka that 17,266 of the total 21,407 children, who were identified as being out of the schooling system, have been brought back into the system.
The 17,266 children aged between six and 14 years, who were earlier out of the schools, have been admitted again.
The High Court had registered a suo-moto public interest litigation (PIL) in 2017 which was heard by a division bench headed by Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale today.
Government advocate Prathima Honnapura submitted the affidavit by Dr Vishal R, Commissioner of the Department of Public Instructions.
The Urban Development and Rural Development Departments had conducted a survey in all districts of Karnataka to estimate the number of children who were out of schools following a direction by the High Court in the PIL on November 8, 2022. The survery found that 24,708 children were out of the schools and of them 21,407 children were identified.
The affidavit filed today records that 2,900 children aged between six and 14 who are out of schools are yet to be identified. Since the records do not show their current residences and phone numbers of their parents, they are yet to be traced. Of these, 2,254 children are estimated to be in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) limits.
The affidavit states that 17,266 children have been admitted to schools. As many as 1,813 children have migrated with their families. A total of 259 children are unwell. Nineteen children have been admitted to open schools and 120 to Madarasas. As many as 127 children have died in the meantime. Of the originally identified children, 37 were found to be below the age of six and 1,756 were found to be above the age of 14.
Apart from these, 5,19,369 children between the ages of three and six have been admitted to Anganwadis; 51,084 children have been admitted to various private and government schools and 7,747 have migrated with their families.
The High Court recorded the submissions made in the affidavit and adjourned the hearing of the PIL by three weeks.
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Hit by sexual abuse allegations, ex-PM Deve Gowda’s son Revanna tries to find remedy in rituals
Holenarasipura (Karnataka) (PTI): Smoke billowed as ‘Havan’ (fire rituals) flames raged in the scorching summer at JD(S) MLA and former Karnataka Minister H D Revanna’s residence here on Wednesday.
Conspicuous was a piece of paper pasted on the wall of his house.
Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru before leaving for Holenarasipura, Revanna said the SIT has pasted a notice on his house.
Noting that he has no clue about the content of the notice, he said he will cooperate with the authorities.
“I have the strength to face these conspiracies. I will face it (investigation). There is no need to bother. I did not do anything wrong. I am prepared for any investigation and will fight it in a legal manner,” Revanna said.
Rejecting all the allegations, he said, "I will not speak about it now.”
Meanwhile, the SIT has formed three teams to probe the case.
Revanna, the Holenarasipura JD(S) MLA, is the son of former Prime Minister and JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda and elder brother of former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy.
Prajwal is seeking a re-election from Hassan from the JD(S), which is an alliance partner of the BJP in Karnataka.
Just before the elections, a huge cache of explicit videos and photographs, allegedly belonging to him have gone viral in the social media, following which the Karnataka government constituted the SIT on the request of Karnataka State Commission for Women chairperson Nagalakshmi Chowdhary.
A case has been registered against Revanna and Prajwal at Holenarasipura on a complaint by their former cook and relative for allegedly sexually harassing her. She alleged that Prajwal made video calls to her daughter and spoke in an objectionable manner, which forced her to block him.
Since morning, priests were busy performing rituals at Revanna's residence in Hassan district to "ward off the adversity" that has struck their family.
Revanna’s trust in Gods, Goddesses, rituals and astrology are well known.
Once the JD(S) MLA was seen holding lemons in his hand during a public event on the stage. When asked about it, he said lemon has the quality to ward off any type of spell cast on a person.
Sometime he also was seen walking barefoot as part of a vow to fulfill his wishes.
When he was the Public Works Minister in the coalition government of Congress-JD(S), which was led by his brother Kumaraswamy, he travelled 350 km to and from Holenarasipura after an astrologer had advised him not to stay in his own house in Bengaluru as it would bring him bad luck, a source close to Revanna said.
One cannot miss out a broad ‘Tilak’ on his forehead, a garland of Rudraksh Rosary around his neck and rings on his fingers studded with precious stones.
