BIDAR UTSAVA

Bidar Utsava 2014 has been a great success. All activities starting from Career Utsava from 17 Jan to the last performance by Mika Singh have been received well. We were able to get 4500 people to the Job mela of which 714 got appointment letters, thousands of students to listen to lectures on higher studies and career options, sports of all kind, special programmes for the disabled, mahila utsava, photo exhibition, art camp, calligraphy exhibition, mini marathon, grand procession with an estimated participation of 40k people, cultural extravaganza with both local and guest artists, All India Mushayira, kids zone, adventure sports, Pathang Utsava, Exhibition of govt schemes, body building and wrestling. This has attracted large crowd. It gave us international attention as the World Monument Fund is now featuring Bidar as their watch site of the week in facebook this week. They have shared write upon Bidar Utsava and the photographs in their page. The link is as follows. https://www.facebook.com/worldmonuments?fref=ts kindly visit the WMF Bidar page and offer your comments. Secondly, going ahead with our efforts on encouraging more youth from Bidar to take up higher administrative services as their career, we have some good news to share. The Govt of Karnataka is conducting Coaching for Civil Services Examinations 2014 in association with St. Joseph's College, bangalore from this month. The entrance test is scheduled for tomorrow. Bidar is the only test centre other than Bangalore which was decided today. Kindly pass on this message to all. If anybody interested to write the examination, they are to report at 9:30 am at Shaheen PU College tomorrow Sunday. Application form, registration and examination will happen there. All the Best.

Bidar Utsava - Career and Job Utsava

Bidar Utsav - Career mela For the first time, a Career Mela is being organised as part of Bidar Utsav by the district administration in association with The Hindu. In the Mela, students will get information about educational courses at different levels. Experienced counsellors will hold one to one sessions with students to help them choose courses best suited to them. Resource persons for IIT, from the fields of Civil Services like IAS, IPS and KAS, Indian defence forces like Army, Navy and Air Force, and Indian railways will interact with students and motivate them. Motivational speakers will give tips to students about personality development, communication skills and grooming. Separate sessions will be held for teachers , students and presidents of school development and management committees. Government departments and educational institutions will be set up stalls to provide information about various schemes, courses and facilities. First day- January 17th 10 am - Inauguration by Poojya Sri Basavalinga Pattaddevaru of Bhalki Hiremath Poojya Sri Sidrama Sharana Beldale, Basava Sevashram Koutha, 11 am – 1 pm Dr Rame Gowda, Director, PUE board speaks to PUC students 2 pm- Deva Prakash, Director (examinations), SSLC board speaks to SDMC presidents Second day - January 18th 10 am- Dr Shah Faisal IAS (all India topper from Jammu and Kashmir)- How to face IAS examinations 2 pm- Air Commodore Manish Khanna, Air Officer Commanding, Bidar Air force base- How to face defence recruitment examinations Third day 19th- January 9 am -12.30 Ameen Mudassir, CEO, Sigma Foundation, (resource person, The Hindu), speaks to SSLC students and 1.30 to 5.30 -Successful IITians- How to face IIT examination Fourth day 20th January 10.30 am – 1 pm - Sri Nirbhayananda Swamiji of Ramakrishna –Vivekananda Ashram, speaks to teachers 2 pm to 5 pm Orientation on banking examinations Fifth Day Jan 21. 10 am to 1 pm – Dr S. Azhar- Session for science teachers 2. 3 pm – Railway recruitment board, Secunderabad- How to face railway recruitment examinations Sixth day 22 1. 10 am – 1 pm Gururaj Karajagi – session for science and maths teachers 2. 2 pm to 5 pm- Job opportunities for unemployed youth and briefing about Job Mela- Community college experts and D. B Rukmangada, coordinator, Job Utsava. Post script after the Career and Job Utsava Career Utsava and Udyog Utsava had come to an end. These seven days have been a wonderful opportunity for the students and youth of Bidar for getting information about higher studies, career and trying to secure a job. Two day's Udyog Utsava saw around 4500 candidates turning up ins search of a job. There were more than 35 companies with a cumulative requirement of more than 3000 posts. By the end of the day, 714 candidates were given offer letters. The focus mainly was on those who are either matriculate or higher secondary. 350 candidates have been selected for further training that will ensure them a job at the executive level. I thank Mr. Rukmangada, the coordinator who single handedly ensured these many companies have come. I thank all the representatives from the companies for coming and recruiting our people and giving positive feedback about the capability of our students. I thank Mr. Abdul Qadeer of Shaheen Institutions for being the sponsor and The Hindu for being the media partner. I thank all the friends from media for covering the programme. We hope to conduct such programmes again in the future with bigger number of companies with more opportunities for the Highly skilled people. Congratulations and all the Best to all those who got selected.

Bidar in the World Monument Watch.

Bidar has been included in the World Monument Watch 2014, declared by the World Monument Fund, an organisation based in New York. WMF is the leading independent organisation devoted to saving world’s treasured places. For nearly 50 years, working in 100 countries, its experts have applied proven and effective techniques to the preservation of important architectural and cultural heritage sites around the globe. Bidar is the first site in from Karnataka to be recognised by the WMF. This nomination ensures increased global attention on the heritage of the city and will motivate many agencies to come forward for preservation of the Heritage sites. Though nomination does not guarantee any funding from the WMF, they may fund some projects for the preservation of the heritage of the city. The 2014 list includes 67 sites from 41 countries. They received nominations for 741 monuments from 166 countries. Bidar is one of the three sites included from India. This nomination will lead to added international attention being bestowed upon Bidar. The nomination will bring with it a lot of expertise in planning for the conservation and preservation activities and exploiting the tourism potential of the City. This will enhance the capacity for documentation at the local level. To commemorate this, the district administration has planned to organize an International Seminar on the theme The Glory of Bidar in the second week of January 2014. The seminar is mainly intended to document various aspects of the heritage of Bidar. Further, the administration has also identified three themes for organizing heritage walks in the city. The route is formed in such a way that the group can cover the whole length in around two hours with visiting various locations. The district administration extends its heartfelt gratitude to the World Monument Fund for recognizing the City. We also appreciate the services rendered by Mr. Raykar, Executive Director, Indian Heritage Cities Network and Mr. Govindan Kutty who have motivated the district administration to fill the nomination for the WMF. They have extensively toured the city and helped us in documenting various aspects of heritage especially the Naubad Karez system and Bag-e-Hamam.

Civil Services Coaching

There are many well-known coaching Institutes in Delhi and the nearby areas providing expert coaching for civil services examination. These institutions are of two types. The first category concentrates on giving classroom teaching with the expert resource persons. They will not provide any boarding or lodging facility to the candidates. They charge a very high commercial rate for the coaching. The quality of the input given in the classroom coaching is also high. The notes and other materials given as part of their instruction is of high value to the civil services preparations. The candidates have to make their own arrangements for the room and food if taken admission in these centres. Normally they start admission to the prelims cum mains coaching programme in Oct every year. The number of students is each class can be up to 200. The second category is the institutions that are run by some universities with the assistance of the government. The intake in such institutions is limited and the quality of the classroom input is not at the level offered by the private coaching centres. However, they offer very good residential facilities and the food is also provided. The candidates need not worry about the physical facilities and they can concentrate on their studies. These centres offer good library facility with quality books. There will be a good group of students who are all preparing for the same examination. This grouping of fresher and experienced is the major strength of these centres. They charge minimal fees for the room and food and generally the coaching programme is free. The admission is through competitive tests, conducted across the country. They have certain high levels of standard with regard to the discipline. Two such reputed residential coaching centres are Hamdard Study Circle, New Delhi and Residential Coaching Centre, Aligarh. Both are considered to be good with a lot of alumni making to the Civil services every year. The Hamdard Education Society runs the Hamdard with the support from Ministry of Social Justice, mainly intended for students from minority communities. The admission is made through competitive Examination to be held on 6/10/2013, last date for application is 8 September. The application forms can be downloaded from www.hamdardstudycircle.org. Bidar is declared as the ninth Centre for the Test in the country, if sufficient number of applications is received. The Residential Coaching Academy, attached to Aligarh Muslim University is sponsored by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The programme is intended mainly for the students belonging to SC/ST/Minorities and Women categories. The admission is made through a nationwide competitive test on 14 September. The last date for filing application is 31 August. The application form can be downloaded from the website www.amu.ac.in. For further details and assistance, any interested candidates may contact the District Centre for Guidance and Training, Old Civil Hospital, Gawan Chowk, Bidar. The filled in applications along with the supporting documents can be submitted in the DC officer during the working hours. The last date for submitting the applications is fixed as 31 August for Aligarh and 4 September for Hamdard. Any application received late will not be entertained as the centres are very strict about the dates. There will be test centre in Bidar for both the screening test. Email- deo.bidar@gmail.com Please make the best use of this situation

UPSC Orientation/Coaching

The District Administration, Bidar through the District Career Guidance Centre announces a four months programme for the Training and guidance programme for the aspirants of the Civil Services Examinations being conducted by the UPSC. The focus will be prepare them for taking the exam for May 2014. We will be imparting basic coaching to the students. Later they will be encouraged to go to bigger cities like Delhi where the environment is more encouraging. The programmes will be held in the Centre for Guidance and Training, Old Civil Hospital, Near Gawan Chowk, Bidar. The candidates will be selected through a screening test to be conducted on 5 August, 2013. Those candidates who are interested to join shall register their names with the District Administration by 31 July. This follows the orientation programme conducted a few months back. Those who want to just test their skills but not interested may please keep away from applying or attending the classes. We are looking for only serious candidates as we the time and resources at our disposal are limited. Aspirants from Bidar district will be given preference though those belonging to nearby areas can apply... Registration form can be downloaded from www.bidar.nic.in The filled up form to be e-mailed to deo.bidar@gmail.com

Coaching for KMAT 2013 in Bidar

The Admission to the MBA Course is made only through the Management Aptitude Test from this year. Those who want to get admission to MBA can appear the KMAT which will be held on 21 July 2013. The last date for applying for KMAT is on 10 July and the results will be announced on 1 August. The candidates have to apply for the test online through the website http://www.kmatindia.com/. The District Administration and the MBA department of Lingaraj Appa Engineering College are jointly organising free coaching for the KMAT Examination from 3 July to 6 July. The classes will be held at the District Career Guidance and Coaching Centre at Old Civil Hospital, Near Zilla Panchayat Office. The Centre will help in filling up the application online. Students who are interested to attend the classes should be present the centre by 10:00 am on 3 July.

Public Consultation on Special Status to Hyderabad Karnataka

Cabinet Sub Committee on Special Status to Hyderabad Karnataka (article 371) is scheduled to hold a public consultation sitting in the Conference Hall of DC Office, Gulbarga on Monday 1 July 2013. The time slot allotted to Bidar district is from 10am to 12 am. Those who are interested to present their views can submit their views in writing. The write ups can be submitted to the DC office Bidar by 30/06/2013 or personally at the meeting venue by 9am in Gulbarga. Individuals and organisations are welcome. I request all the citizens of Bidar to share their ideas on the subject so that the special status to Hyderabad karnataka becomes specially meaningful to us...