UG students likely to get scholarship

Updated on: Friday, August 07, 2009

Bangalore: Student enrolling in non-professional undergraduate courses from 39 most backward taluks (identified by the D.M. Nanjundappa Committee on Regional Imbalances) will be given special scholarships worth Rs. 10,000 if a key recommendation of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission (KKC) is implemented.

Apart from this, five well-performing institutions in select backward districts of Karnataka will receive a onetime grant of Rs. 10 lakh, this is one among the 26 proposals put forth by the commission that submitted its first set of recommendations to the Chief Minister on Tuesday.

Though this proposal focuses on increasing the gross enrolment to higher education from 11.6 to 15 per cent in the State, others deal with promoting knowledge applications (such as developing the Kannada Wikipedia), increasing access to libraries, empowering resource institutions and reforming teacher training, among others.

Headed by K. Kasturirangan, Director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, the commission will now hold consultations with seven government departments for the implementation of its recommendations.

The proposal suggests that an advanced centre for legal research and law-related studies on the lines of the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) or Institute of Social and Economic Change (ISEC) be set up in the State. It is likely to be autonomous or part of a newly created Law University, the proposal suggests.

Further, a Karnataka State Research and Innovation Fund, for encouraging research work at the university-level, has been proposed.

The commission recommends that the existing libraries be provided appropriate books and audio-video material, in at least 10 per cent of the government schools in every educational block during 2009-2010.

To increase access to technology, mobile internet vans must be deputed to every district to generate interest in the vast resources available online, the commission recommends, adding that these units should visit block resource centres periodically.

Undergraduate college libraries should select videotaped lectures of experts in humanities and social sciences, to be used as a tool to educate students and teachers.

UG students likely to get scholarship

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