‘No objection to starting civil aviation operations’

There was no objection from any stakeholders to starting civil aviation operations from the Air Force base here, P.C. Jaffer, Deputy Commissioner, said here on Monday.

A team of senior officials from the Defence Ministry, Civil Aviation and GMR group visited the Air Force base in the afternoon.

They inspected the air strip and control facilities, the civilian terminal and other areas.

Officials held a meeting at the Deputy Commissioner’s office later.

Those present included Rajkumar Khatri, Principal Secretary, Infrastructure; Uma Nanduri, Director, Defence Ministry, IAF officials, Vikram Singhania of GMR, K. Tyagarajan, Superintendent of Police, and Sunil Panwar, Deputy Conservator of Forests, according to a release.

Five years ago, the State government obtained the Defence Ministry’s permission to use the Bidar Air Force base for civil aviation operations.

GMR’s Objections

However, the Airports Authority of India did not clear the proposal, citing objections from the GMR group that operates the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, which has a flying distance of less than 150 km from Bidar.

The State government wrote to the GMR group to take over civil aviation operations at the Bidar base.

The GMR group had said that it would study the proposal.

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KVAFSU to tie up with American universities (bidar).

The Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University (KVAFSU) will tie up with some American universities for exchange of faculty and students.

“We have had one round of discussions with deans of veterinary universities in Minnesota and Atlanta in the U.S. , about a mutually beneficial exchange programme. We have invited them to visit our facilities. They are expected within the next one or two months,” said KVAFSU Vice-Chancellor C. Renuka Prasad here on Monday.

“If all goes well, our overseas exchange programme should start by the next academic year,” he told presspersons.

“This is part of our initiative to enrich the learning experiences of our students and the research undertaken by our faculty. This will expose our students and teachers to the best practices in education. We expect it to improve our overall quality of teaching,” he said. Special research and development facilities would be developed on KVAFSU’s campuses in Bangalore and Bidar, to receive the faculty arriving from the U.S. and to aid our researchers working on collaborative projects, he added.

“The university will start the second round of appointments of teaching and non-teaching staff. We recruited over 100 teachers last year. We are inviting applications for the appointment of around 80 teachers. The university’s administrative board will also discuss the appointment of 140 non-teaching staff,” he said. The university plans to appoint 17 persons to the Directorate of Extension. “This will help us pass on information to farmers on emerging technologies in animal husbandry. We also plan to set up our own Krishi Vigyan Kendras,” he added.

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New Bidar SP takes charge..

“The special cell formed to curb the land mafia in Bidar will be strengthened,” Kandasamy Tyagarajan, Superintendent of Police, said here on Monday.

He was speaking to presspersons after taking charge.

Dr. Tyagarajan added that the police would work with revenue officials to check the growth of the land mafia. The 36-year-old veterinary science graduate is a 2006 batch IPS officer.

Background

Dr. Tyagarajan hails from Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu and has worked as Assistant Superintendent of Police, Humnabad, Superintendent of Police, Kolar, and Deputy Commissioner of Police (City Armed Reserve), Bangalore.

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