Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SB) 

Udupi, Jun 25: District in-charge minister Dr V S Acharya said the government has chalked out plans to train the teachers under District Institute of Education and Training and publish Tulu text books as a step towards introducing Tulu in the curriculum of the std VI in the state.

He was speaking after presenting the honorary awards-08 of the Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy at Ravindra Mantap, MGM College here on Wednesday June 24. The efforts are on in this regard along with process to declare Tulu as one of the official languages of the state. If the issue o including including Tulu in the eighth schedule of the Constitution needs to taken up, then the literary activities in Tulu should witness a rise, he said.

Inaugurating the programme, MP D V Sadananda Gowda said that the state government as well as all the MPs of the state should collectively approach the centre with the demand to include Tulu in eighth schedule of the Constitution. Further, he also advised the academy to write to the cabinet with regard to introducing Tulu in the curriculum of the std VI in the state. 

Academy president Palthady Ramakrishna Achar presiding over the ceremony announced that a world Tulu conference in association with Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala will be held in Dharmasthala between Dec 17 and 19. A preliminary meeting will be convened on this matter at Dharmashala on July 4. 

Honoured

Tulu literary personalities Bannanje Babu Amin from Udupi, Tulu folk artiste Dasu Bangera from Belle and dramatist Sadashiv Salian from Mumbai were honoured with the awards.

Writers Bola Chittaranjandas Shetty, Nagaraj Gurupur and Mohammed Kulai received the award for their books for the year 2008.