Writer calls for research on Valmiki.

Writer Venkanna Donnegoudar has called for more research to be done on Valmiki.

Speaking at the Valmiki Jayanti celebrations here on Monday, Dr. Donnegoudar said scriptures mentioned three Valmikis. Writers had built on these stories and fed popular imagination. It was unfortunate that academicians had neglected this “visionary” sage and writer, he said.

Dr. Donnegoudar said Valmiki practised the principles he wrote about in the Ramayana, and tried to reform society.

Welfare schemes

Deepika Sachin Rathod, zilla panchayat president, who inaugurated the celebrations, claimed the State government and the zilla panchayat were implementing several schemes for people from Scheduled Tribes and backward classes.

Bandeppa Kashempur and Rahim Khan, MLAs, Raghunath Malkapure, MLC, Bidar City Municipal Council president Sridevi Karanji, Deputy Commissioner P.C. Jaffer, and zilla panchayat Chief Executive Officer V. Geetanjali were present.

Procession

Earlier, Minister for Infrastructure Development and district in-charge Sunil Valyapure inaugurated a procession from the Deputy Commissioner’s office to the Ranga Mandira.

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