Pragativahini News, Belagavi
As a part of Save VTU abhiyan, VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS OF BELAGAVI SENT MEMORANDUM TO CM. The contents are as follows…
During the presentation of Karnataka State Budget for 2019-20 an announcement made to bifurcate the Visvesvaraya Technological University into two, so as to establish one such Technological University in Hasan came as a big shock to all of us in North Karnataka. People of this region, take it as a continuing process of causing increased imbalance in development of North Karnataka, for which there is already an uproar in the assembly sessions and number of well reasoned representations given to decision taking leaders, in the last 4 to 5 years.
ವಿಟಿಯು ಒಡೆಯುವುದಾದರೆ ರಾಜ್ಯವನ್ನೇ ಒಡೆಯಿರಿ
As if adding fuel to the fire, many offices and institutions are also being shifted one by one to Bengaluru, Mandya & Hasan during last 6 months.
Promises made and assurances given by various Governments to develop this part of the state on par with South Karnataka, remain only in announcements and speeches without a real political willpower to do so. Intellectuals, Educationalists, Businessmen, Industrialists, Lawyers, Chartered Accountants, Architects, Doctors, Engineers and the entire farming community are watching such actions of the government with anger and intolerance. Our Patience need not be taken as weakness. It is such uneven development done in the past, and still happening fast year by year, has made us think of a separate state.
ಈಗಲೂ ಪ್ರತಿಭಟಿಸದಿದ್ದರೆ ಬೆಳಗಾವಿಯನ್ನೇ ಎತ್ತಿಕೊಂಡು ಹೋದಾರು
Before our voice becomes a Tigers roar, to damage your eardrums, it is inevitable and urgent to set the matters right, and this can be done by launching all-round development in all parts of North Karnataka establish even major, medium and small scale industries by creating necessary industrial environments, modernise towns and cities of this part, & also by establishing the best institutions of education, health & agriculture.
But decisions and actions of government are suite contrary to what we ask for. Instead of establishing new industries & institutions, in this part, they are either being shifted or dissected to make them weak.
Now, the latest decision of bifurcating the V T U, one of the fast developing, best technological University in Belagavi, is most unfortunate and unjustifiable. In this connection, the report of Shri S.G. Balekundri Committee explaining the reasons for establishment of Technical University in Belagavi may be referred once again. This report justifies the valid reasons for establishing Technological University only in Belagavi
Reasons advanced by Government in bifurcating V.T.U. and taking half of it to Hasan are also not justifiable and not at all convincing. Geographical reasons and long distance for students of Bengaluru, Mysore, Mandya, Hasan, Tumkur, Kolar, Chikkamangalore, Mangalore, Chikkaballapur cannot be accepted for bifurcating the V.T.U.. In that case on this analogy,
- Rajiv Gandhi Health University has also to be bifurcated, establishing one in Belagavi
- Many manor industries in and around Bengaluru are to be shifted to suitable places of North Karnataka. This will also reduce the pollution and increasing infrastructure needs of Bengaluru which is bursting it seems.
- If the distance of students of old Mysore is the reason for bifurcation of V.T.U., then on the same analogy, one more capital has to start function immediately in “Suvarna Soudha”, Belagavi for the convenience and to facilitate easy work for all the people in North Karnataka, who have to travel long distance to reach Bengaluru.
The above justifiable demands are also based on the same analogy geographical reasons and reasons of distance & cost.
If they cannot be met with immediately, on the same grounds, we, all people of this reason, strongly, and unitedly oppose the bifurcation of Visvesvaraya Technological University of Belagavi.
If the Government, still insists on causing the bifurcation, very severe agitations will have to be organised by the people of North Karnataka.
The intentions of the govt seems to provoke the Division of State and hence the proposal has to be dropped in the United interest of the State. We humbly appeal & pray, to maintain the statusquo for Visvesvaraya Technological University of Belagavi.
