Mangaluru : Members of the Karnataka Rajya Akshara Dasoha Naukarara Sangha district unit staged a protest on Tuesday, urging the state government to meet their demands, including the implementation of minimum wages for mid-day meal workers. The members protested in front of the Zilla Panchayat office in the city. The protesters said that the Centre […]

Puttur: The headmaster of Haradi Higher Primary School in Puttur taluk has been suspended on the charge of selling rice meant for mid-day meal and furnishing false information in the account books. The headmaster Mudara’s suspension order was issued by the deputy director of public instruction, Dakshina Kannada district following submission of detailed investigations into […]

Mangaluru: Police raid conducted at the Mangalore Rice Mill premises located at Shakthi Nagar has unearthed black marketing of the rice meant for poor under the Akshara Dasoha scheme in early morning raid on Friday Nearly 1350kg rice (270 bags) of illegally stored rice was seized during the three-hour raid, that began at 6 am […]

Mangaluru: There are 10,911 disabled persons in Dakshina Kannada district and the district administration will provide all facilities to them with ease of access to cast their votes at the polling booths, informed G.P. executive engineer Dr. M.R. Ravi. He was speaking at a press meet at district commissioner’s office on Wednesday and said that […]

Mangaluru: Karnataka state Akshara Dasoha employees’ association DK district committee staged protest keeping various demands in front of the government, on Friday in front of DC office. Protestors urged the government that the government should fix minimum wage for Akshara Dasoha employees and they should be provided social security by recruiting them as permanent employees. […]

Mangaluru : The district committee of Akshara Dasoha Employees’ Association staged a protest under the aegis of CITU in Mangaluru on Tuesday and urged the Central government to provide more grants to midday meal workers. CITU district General Secretary Vasant Achari said that the Central government has not raised the salary of midday meal workers […]

Sullia: The Sullia police have arrested Basavaraju (55) on Dec.25 Wednesday for the crime of selling ‘Akshara Dasoha’ rice meant for mid-day meals normally given to school children in Sullia and other areas of DK districts, but diverted to shops and restaurants for selfish gains by the Lorry-driver employed by a merchant of Bellare near […]