The farmers near to the Bellary nala on the NH 4 gathered in Bogarves and took a procession to meet the DC and give their memorandum. Shri Vilas Pawar was leading this protest. I have just tried to locate it may be it is not excat.

The farmers allege that their 14 acre fertile land is being overtaken by the KAIDB(Karnataka Industries Board) unwillingly and unlawfully. The 14-acre area has been declared has been declared as a “Green Belt” by the BUDA. (Belgaum urban Development authority) The said 14 acres of over hundreds of farmers is being taken by the KAIDB for industrial purposes but the way it has been done is very wrong. A BJP MLA is supposed to have around 5 acres of land near these 14 acres and the farmers allege that he is the king pin behind all this.

See the manner in which the said land has been acquired:
6th December 2006 in Bangalore the KAIDB issued the Gazette
8th December 2006 The KAIDB Dharwad Office makes a note of the same
13th December 2006 Farmers get notices
14th December 2006 gets Diary approval
18th December 2006 invitation for meeting of farmers with KAIDB authorities
All the farmers got the notices only after 20th December 2006
Notices were not published in any newspapers

The farmers have put a writ petition against this in the Karnataka High Court and the court has as usual taken time to study.

The best thing is that the name of KIADB is already mentioned in the Land records.
As it’s a green belt there cannot be any industrial activities in this belt, but the government is trying to acquire fertile land for industrial purposes. What happened in Singur and Nandigram in WB were also on the same lines but seeing the huge protests even Tata had to step back.

The farmers are getting 1.41 lakhs per gunta now when the on going rate is 1.75 lakhs per gunta. The farmers say we don’t want money you will give us 2 lakhs but they say we want our land that’s it we will toil and earn.

This sort of acquisition of green belt will harm the city and the country as a whole. There is plenty of empty land near by the Bellary nala which can be utilized for industrial purposes but that’s not been done only for the cause of some politicians. Come on India be big Sensex hits 20000 and the farmers are getting out of their own land. What a Shame? May be this will stop may another Singur Agitation is required with some blood shed then only will the govt. take it seriously.

SriKhestra Pant Balekundri. The potrait of Shir pant Maharaj

The plakhi of Shri Pant Maharaj was held yesterday in Sri Khestra Pant Balekundri. Lakhs of devotees had come for the occassion. Today, monday will be the Mahaprasad. All these are part of the yearly Punya Tithi celebrations.

This story has been published in my associate blog: http://belgaumnri.blogspot.com

Startup Vayavya unveils automated device driver generator

BENGALURU, India — Vayavya Labs is launching an automated device driver generator framework that the company claims will bring discipline through its formal language-based approach. Device driver generation is error prone and hard to maintain since there is no standard process across diverse platforms. Vayavya said its DDGen generator framework addresses these problems while reducing development time and coding effort.

The beta version, now undergoing testing with two semiconductor manufacturers, supports PCI drivers and will eventually support USB and Ethernet. It currently supports Linux and TI BIOS operating systems.

“Device generation by tools has mainly been a research topic. Those who attempted it did so purely from a hardware (device) aspect or from a software point of view,” said R.K. Patil, CEO and co-founder of Vayavya (Belgaum, India). Patil said some researchers focused on “how to capture the register and its programming part, and then went on generate various device access methods. But for some reason, no attempt to capture the software needs while generating the device access methods was made.” Read Full Story

The Belgaum had a over cast sky since two days but today at 5 pm it grew darker and at 6 pm it started to pour down and the intensity increased with time. Till nine pm it was raining heavily which busted the spirits of the people who had been to Jyoti College ground for the Semolanghan. Camp area which witnesses the procession of Goddess Durga was also a bit mild because of the rain.

These are exclusive pictures for this blog.
They are from the Dhwaja Sanchalan of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ) Belgaum Shaka. Around traditionally attired 1,000 and more Swayamsevaks marched through the city.

It was a visual fete from a 6 year old to a 80 year old Swayamsevak taking part in the march.
Every year the march is conducted on the eve of Dasara. The police also after a long time had a nice march with the sevaks.

Hadga or Bhondla Festival:

The nine days and nights festival immediately preceding the most important festival Dasara is celebrated all over India with different traditions. The very first day of this 10 day festival, idols of Goddess Durga are installed at many homes. This installation of the Goddess is popularly known as Ghatsthapana. During this period, little girls celebrate ‘Bhondla/Hadga’ as the Sun moves to the thirteenth constellation of the zodiac called “Hasta” (Elephant). During the nine days, Bhondla is celebrated in the garden or on the terrace during evening hours by inviting female friends of the daughter in the house. An elephant is drawn either with Rangoli on the soil or with a chalk on a slate and kept in the middle. The girls go around it in a circle, holding each other’s hands and singing the Bhondla songs. All the Bhondla songs are traditional songs passed down the generations. The last song typically ends with the words ‘…khirapatila kaay ga?’ (meaning ‘What is the special dish today?’). This ‘Khirapat’ is a special dish / dishes often made laboriously by the mother of the host girl. The food is served only after the rest of the girls have guessed the dish/dishes correctly.

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Dreaming about buying a property in Belgaum, then be ready to spend a few more bucks as the state government has increased the guidance value of immovable property by a whopping 30%. This is the rate at which you need to pay your registration fees for the property you buy even if you actually get the property in a less rate. As this has been increased you will have to pay by this rate only and the same has become effective from 01-08-2007.

 

The increase in the land prices will definitely help the sellers gather a few more bucks but the buyers will have to feel the pinch. One more bad news is that now you will have to pay you corporation property tax on the basis of these rates, so be prepared to spend a few more thousands.

 

Till 30-09-2007 we used to pay by the rates decided in November 2004. Now the increase is about 30% to 60% from the earlier rates.

	Earlier Rates/Guntha	New Rates/Guntha	% Increase
Khade Bazar	2400000	3267000	36.13
Kirloskar Road	2400000	3267000	36.13

 

The funniest thing I observed is that the rates in some specific language speaking areas the rates have been fixed at 234000. These areas include Mal maruti, Anjanneya Nagar, Shiv Basav Nagar, Shri Nagar, Mahantesh Nagar. The fact here is the prices here have risen more than in other parts of the city but the Guidance value has been kept low by the govt. just to please a few I believe.

 

The rates of a few different areas is given below:

	Rate Per Guntha in Rs.	Sq/Ft in Rs.
MalMaruti/Ashok Nagar	234000	214.88
Shivbasav Nagar	234000	214.88
Shrinagar/Mahantesh Ngr	234000	214.88
Kasai Galli	270000	247.93
Mahadwar Road	340000	312.21
Bhagya Nagar	375000	344.35
Govaves Circle	640000	587.70
Tilakwadi Internal Areas	870000	798.90
Rande Road,Hindwadi	960000	881.54
Kaktives Road	1000000	918.27
Subhash Market,Hindwadi	1121000	1029.38
Bsavan Galli	1300000	1193.76
Samadevi Galli	1600000	1469.24
Khanapur Road(Tilakwadi)	1600000	1469.24
Old Dharwar Road	1670000	1533.52
College Road	1700000	1561.07
Huns Talkies Road	2100000	1928.37
Nargundkar Bhave Chowk	2400000	2203.86
Market	2425000	2226.81
Ramdev Galli	2530000	2323.23
Maruti Galli	2755000	2529.84
Ganpat Galli	2830000	2598.71
Khade Bazar	3267000	3000.00
Kirloskar Road	3267000	3000.00
Bogarves	3267000	3000.00

 

 

If you had planned to buy some property in Belgaum then think over, if you wait may be next time the rates will be a bit higher again. You can never time a market. But if prices in Govt. Gazette go up so high then its is sure that when you want to buy on ground the real estate prices will be definitely more than what is mentioned above.

 

Happy tax paying and buying folks…

 

Information gathered from Sakal, Internet, Real estate agents.