Bidar Narasimha Temple 



Narshimha Jhira Water Cave Temple:

At this place the Powerful diety as per the belief here is situated in cave of nealy 300 meters. One has to wade through water upto chest height to have darshan of the diety. It will be thrilling experience with bats and owls sitting on the roof toop of cave but they will not do any harm to the devotees. In the year 1999 with efforts of an young IAS Officer Mr. M Maheswar Rao who was working as Assistant Commissioner and was incharge of this temple comittee got the cave Air conditioned and Electrified.

Use of technology has made police job easy

It has helped them in investigation and routine policing in Bidar

Keeping track:Assistant sub-inspector of police Chandrashekar Hangaragi wearing a helmet that has a camera attached to it.

Chandrashekar Hangaragi has the most interesting headgear in the district. The assistant sub-inspector of police— who mans traffic in the city— has a camera attached to his helmet.

The thumb-sized, ‘always on’ camera records the officer’s point of view video footage all day . A memory chip inserted into the officer’s helmet stores the data which is transferred regularly to a computer in the traffic control room. The Bidar police use this footage to monitor traffic on the roads, analyse bottlenecks and ascertain facts during altercations among people. “The helmet camera is just one part of a data collection network that we are trying to put in place,” says Superintendent of Police N. Satish Kumar.

“Very soon, we plan to have cameras on the helmet or collar of every officer on law and order duty,” he said. Mr. Satish Kumar said the Bidar police were using technology to aid investigation and routine policing. Senior officers used tablet computers to capture images and videos of crime scenes. They used the tablets to capture images, scan documents and e-mailed them to the server room and to their seniors. “This has helped us cut down on time spent on investigation. Earlier, whenever there was a murder or an accident, the officer would write down the names of victims and other details, send them to the police station where a writer would type them, copy the details into the station register and send a signed copy to the Superintendent of Police’s office through a messenger.

This would take hours. Now, I get details of an incident within minutes of our officers reaching the spot,” he said. The use of technology was also helping the police find repeat offenders and fight court cases. Bidar was among the first districts in the State to achieve 100 per cent computerisation of crime records last year. Officers in one police station can easily access records of any offender registered in any station in the district. “Padding up a complaint against repeat offenders with details of earlier cases against them makes the case stronger. This data backup has also made our job of presenting court documents easier,” Mr. Satish Kumar said. Digitisation of records was taken up through the Crime and Criminal Tracking and Networking System and Police IT project. Biometric records of all those arrested for criminal cases were being collected using live scanners and fingerprint recorders. In the second phase, the data would be shared with police stations in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra to help track down criminals who committed offences in one State and escaped to another. The police had entered into an agreement with hotels that had closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) on their premises to focus some of their cameras on the road outside their buildings. “There are hundreds of CCTV cameras in the district. The footage remains with the hotels, but we get it whenever it is needed. Such footage has helped us track a gang of highway dacoits and solve some bank theft cases,” he said.

More:http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3846693.ece

 

Will special status boost human development?

Hyderabad Karnataka region remains at the bottom on most welfare indicators

There is a sense of déjà vu every time a report related to any aspect of human development in Karnataka is released, with the districts of Hyderabad Karnataka (HK) region invariably at the bottom on all indicators.

The 2011 Census data and the Housing, Household Amenities and Assets Survey for Karnataka, released this year, too showed HK districts at the bottom on all indicators, ranging from female literacy to mobile phone connectivity.

Continuing gap

While the six districts of the region saw some improvement compared with where they stood in 2001, what cannot be missed is the continuing gap in development between the southern districts and those of the HK region.

The 2011 Census reveals that Yadgir has the lowest female literacy rate of 41.31 per cent, and the other HK districts of Raichur, Gulbarga, Bidar, Bellary and Koppal fall below the State average of 68 per cent. At the other end of the spectrum are Bangalore and Dakshina Kannada at 85 and 84 per cent respectively.

Interestingly, the report submitted last year by the Shivaraj V. Patil committee on prevention on child marriage, drew a correlation between child marriage and low literacy rates. District Level Household Survey (DLHS), 2008, showed that districts of low literacy in HK and those in its neighbourhood had an alarmingly high number of girls marrying before 18. It noted that the situation in districts like Koppal and Gulbarga had not changed much between DLHS 2002-04 and 2007-08.

This, in turn, is connected to child and maternal health and mortality. State’s Health Department has classified all districts of HK region (barring Bellary) as requiring special attention on maternal mortality. It is also no coincidence that the worst cases of child malnutrition are reported from this region, especially Raichur and Koppal.

Development chain

Clearly, these human development issues are intrinsically linked to one another and point to failure of the State to create awareness and make focussed investment on welfare measures. The Housing, Household Amenities and Assets Survey released earlier this year further illustrates how this chain of deprivation and skewed development continues.

If the persistence of large family sizes is an indicator of the continued dependence on agrarian feudal economy, it is significant that Yadgir has 35.7 per cent of households with 6 to 8 members. It also has the highest number of households with more then nine members at 13.8 per cent, as against the State average of 5.2 per cent.

The gap is glaring in amenities too. Dependence on firewood is the highest in Yadgir at 86.5 per cent. LPG connectivity in Yadgir is as low as 9.5 per cent. Maximum number of households with no source of lighting are in Bidar, Raichur and Yadgir (all 0.8 per cent), with Bidar having made no improvement since the last census.

On educational indicators too, HK districts predictably figure at the bottom. Yadigir reports the highest transition loss (15.77 per cent) between primary to high school. Bidar has been at the bottom on the ranking of SSLC pass percentage for two years in succession now, with all others figuring in the bottom 10 bracket.

Backward pockets

A close look at the districts within the region also points to the most backward pockets within this backward region, with districts like Koppal, Yadgir and Bidar figuring at the very bottom.

Whether amending Article 371 of the Constitution to provide special status to HK region translates to greater State intervention and investment to improve crucial parameters of health and education remains a moot question.

More:http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3842580.ece

 

           List of Bahmani Sultans ( BIDAR)

 

• Aladdin Hassan Bahman Shah 1347–1358
• Mohammed Shah I 1358–1375
• Aladdin Mujahid Shah 1375–1378
• Da'ud Shah 1378
• Mohammed Shah II 1378–1397
• Ghiyath ud-Din 1397
• Shams ud-Din 1397
• Taj ud-Din Firuz Shah 1397–1422
• Ahmad Shah I Wali 1422–1436
• Aladdin Ahmad Shah II 1436–1458
• Aladdin Humayun Zalim Shah 1458–1461
• Nizam Shah 1461–1463
• Mohammed Shah III Lashkari 1463–1482
• Mohammed Shah IV (Mahmud Vira Shah) 1482–1518
• Ahmad Vira Shah III 1518–1521
• Aladdin Shah 1521–1522
• Wali-Allah Shah 1522–1525
• Kalim-Allah Shah 1525–1527
• Firoz Shah Bahmani

School students display their skills in the science of number

A mathematics exhibition was organised at the Kendriya Vidyalaya, Bidar Air Force Station, as part of the 125th birth anniversary celebrations of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, here on Wednesday.

Secondary school students presented 120 projects, and there were also hand-drawn pictures of mathematicians and charts.

Ashutosh, a seventh standard student invited visitors to take part in a picture puzzle based on mathematics principles. Pratibha, a 10th standard student, explained her project on matching numbers.

Ninth standard student Anikit created a fictional city where each building was based on a mathematical design.

Alia and her group put up a pattern that made solving equations easier. Rahul Singh and Rupal Ghosh prepared a working model of an inclinometer, which measures the height of buildings from a distance.

‘Develop interest’

In-charge principal V.B. Khanapure, who inaugurated the exhibition, asked students to develop a keen interest in mathematics and not entertain the notion that it was a difficult subject.

He also spoke about the life of Ramanujan. He said 2012 had been declared the National Mathematics Year, to celebrate Ramanujan’s birth anniversary. Several programmes had been organised as part of the anniversary celebrations, such as a drawing and painting competition for primary students,

Mr. Khanapure said. The two best projects would be sent to the regional-level mathematics exhibition, he added.

Amitabh Mishra, M. Mashetty, S. Jaishree and Mahesh, teachers, were present.

More:http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3838095.ece

 

New train sought between Bidar and Bangalore

 

The Bidar Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has urged the Union Government to start a night train from Bidar to Bangalore.

“We have been demanding for decades that the schedule of the Nanded-Bangalore express train be changed so as to make it an overnight train from Bidar to Bangalore. However, the Centre and the Railways have been indifferent to the demand,” BCCI president B.G. Shetkar has said in a release.

He said during a meeting with Minister of State for Railways K.H. Muniyappa, railway officials had indicated that changing the schedule of the train would affect the movement of other trains, and would hence not be feasible. However, N. Dharam Singh, MP, had suggested to Mr. Muniyappa that a new train be run between Bidar and Bangalore.

Mr. Shetkar said the BCCI supported Mr. Singh’s demand and urged the Railway Minister to announce the train in next year’s Railway Budget. He said that this demand was included in a memorandum submitted to Union Minister for Power and Corporate Affairs M. Veerappa Moily who visited the district two days ago.

The other demands include starting the Bidar-Secunderabad intercity express train immediately and completion of the Bidar-Gulbarga railway line.

More:http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3834007.ece

 

Bidar fort video  

Bidar Greenery  

Bidar to Honnikery

Bidar Indoor Stadium heading for Completion

 

 

 

Partial response to bandh call in Bidar

Staff Correspondent.

Samiti seeks implementation of Sadashiva Commission report.

The ‘Bidar bandh’ called on Monday by the Madiga Dandora Horata Samiti seeking implementation of the A.J. Sadashiva Commission report on internal reservation was partial and peaceful. Government offices and schools were open. Some private schools had declared a holiday.

Private offices and shops, which remained closed for a few hours in the morning, reopened by noon.

North East Karnataka Road Transport Corporation buses were stopped for a few hours in the morning, but the movement of private vehicles was not affected.

Protesters took out a rally and gathered at the Ambedkar Circle.

Vice-president of the samiti’s State unit Chandrakanth Hippalgaonkar said only some communities were enjoying the benefits meant for all Scheduled Castes. “This has led to a great divide among the over 100 communities among the Scheduled Castes. It is now the responsibility of the State government to correct the anomalies and make sure that each caste gets its due share of reservation and other benefits,” he said. Mr. Hippalgaonkar said the commission report recommended scientific measures to provide facilities to each community based on its population.

“It has also brought in the concept of dividing communities into touchable and untouchable groups,” he said.

District president of the samiti Fernandes Hippalgaonkar said that States such as Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Sikkim had already implemented internal reservation among Scheduled Castes, and Karnataka should follow suit. They submitted a memorandum, addressed to Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, to Additional Deputy Commissioner Noor Mansoor. Earlier, protesters took out a motorcycle rally from Hyderabad Road to Naubad industrial area and got shopkeepers to down shutters. They got into arguments with some traders in Naubad and in the old city when they refused to down shutters. One shopkeeper in Naubad told them that traders were suffering losses owing to bandhs.

More:http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3829937.ece

 

A look at Barid Shahi Tombs

 

List of Bidar Trains and Numbers

 

                     

 

 

        A village around the post office 

 

Veerappa Kallappa Bugganor, 75, of Byalahalli-K in Bhalki taluk in Karnataka’s Bidar district, visits the village post office every day. That is not because he has business there every day, but because he likes it.

The stone bench in front of the post office is his favourite spot. Senior citizens like him gather there every morning and sit and chat for hours. “We come here because of the Dakiya; he is a friend of the village,” says Mr. Bugganor, pointing to Mallappa Biradar, the rural postal employee (RPE) at the one-person post office in this village of 2,500 people.

Mr. Bugganor is a beneficiary of Sandhya Suraksha, the State government’s old-age pension scheme. The RPE comes to his house in the first week of every month to hand over the monthly pension of Rs. 500.

He also collects money from the Bugganor couple for their recurring deposit. The village has 450 beneficiaries under various social security pension schemes, a majority of them women. The post office also distributes wages to the 600 labourers in the village covered under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), whenever works are taken up in the village.

For them and several others in Byalahalli, Mr. Biradar is the one to turn to in case of need. Most of them are unlettered, and they request him to read and write letters or fill in application forms.

The post office accepts telephone bill payments and taxes and other dues to government bodies such as panchayats. While distributing letters and parcels, Mr. Biradar has managed to enrol a hundred rural postal life insurance policies and a similar number of savings bank or recurring deposits, over the last few years.

The post office serves the villages of Byalahalli-K and Neelammanahalli, and a hamlet, Neelammana halli tanda. For Mr. Biradar, a typical day starts at 8.30. Till noon, he sits in his office tending to paper work, sells stamps and covers, and makes or accepts payments. Then he goes around on his moped distributing letters or collecting payments.

“On most days of the week, I’m required to visit all three places,” he said. The 40-year-old RPE has been doing this for 20 years. Till two years ago, he used a bicycle to go around.

“People in rural areas still have a lot of faith in the postal system. The business of courier service companies is restricted to the cities. People in the villages still write letters and send and receive postal parcels,” Mr. Biradar pointed out.

According him, not much has changed over the years in the way rural post offices function. “Our work largely remains the same. The only improvement has been the rise in the habit of saving money among people. There was not a single savings bank account in the post office when I joined. But now, every few months someone comes here, seeking to open a savings account,” he said.

“The Department of Posts should improve its infrastructure in the villages,” says village headman Baburao Patil. “First, the post office should have its own building. More important, it should diversify its services. Value-added services like filling passport applications and electronic money transfers are available only in the cities. They could be started here,” he suggests.

More:http://bidar.karnataka.news.in/news-20120826-6704-A_village_around_the_post_office_The_Hindu.html

 

    

        Nursing colleges will be graded

 

 

BANGALORE: Cracking the whip on nursing colleges, the state government has decided to grade them based on facilities they provide to help students know the good from the fake.
Medical education minister SA Ramdas told reporters here on Saturday: "All nursing colleges will be graded into three categories based on quality of education they provide. The government will take action against colleges found to be of low grade." The grading has begun in all districts, except Gulbarga and Bidar.

More: http://bidar.karnataka.news.in/news-20120826-6706-Nursing_colleges_will_be_graded_Times_of_India.html

 

           Trains to Bidar Station - List of Bidar Trains and Train Numbers

#    Train no    Trains                                                   From                                    To
1     16592     Nanded - Bangalore Express                Bangalore City Junction     Hubli
2     16593     Nanded - Bangalore Express                 Nanded                     Bangalore City Junction
3     16594     Bangalore Nanded Express                 Bangalore City Junction     Nanded
4     17001     Sainagar Shirdi - Secunderabad Express         Shirdi (Sainagar Shirdi)     Secunderabad Junction
5     17002     Secunderabad - Sainagar Shirdi Express  Secunderabad Junction             Shirdi (Sainagar Shirdi)
6     17013     Pune - Hyderabad Deccan Express     Pune Junction                     Hyderabad Deccan
7     17014     Hyderabad Deccan - Pune Express     Hyderabad Deccan             Pune Junction
8     17205     Sainagar Shirdi Kakinada Express     Shirdi (Sainagar Shirdi)     Visakhapatnam Junction
9     17206     Kakinada - Sainagar Shirdi Express     Kakinada Town                     Shirdi (Sainagar Shirdi)
10     17207     Sainagar Shirdi - Vijayawada Express     Shirdi (Sainagar Shirdi)     Vijayawada Junction
11     17208     Vijayawada - Sainagar Shirdi Express     Vijayawada Junction             Shirdi (Sainagar Shirdi)
12     17479     Puri Tpty Express                     Puri                             Shirdi (Sainagar Shirdi)
13     17481     Bilaspur Tirupati Express             Bilaspur                     Manmad Junction