From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network
Bengaluru, Aug 12: Kannada Development Authority chairman T S Nagabharana has urged the state government to ensure that the Kannada cinema industry and filmmakers were given preference in Karnataka in the matter of providing facilities.
"It is deplorable that Kannada cinema makers had to go to Mumbai, Kerala and other places for animation while film-makers from Hollywood were getting preferential treatment," he said in the online review of the state’s Information and Bio-technology sectors in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
Nagarabharana asked the IT and BT department director Meena Nagaraj and the chief minister’s e-administration adviser Beluru Sudarshana and other senior officers to recast the state’s policy pertaining to the film industry and IT/BT sectors to ensure that the local talent in the Kannada film industry was given all encouragement and preference.
In a scathing attack on the policies of the government, he wanted the department to take steps to ensure that the IT/BT industries which had flourished in the state by utilizing the facilities and talents of Karnataka provided preference to Kannadigas in giving jobs.
The Kannada Development Authority has been receiving complaints that the IT/BT companies in the state have been ignoring Kannadigas and the local jobs were being cornered by outsiders, Nagabharana said and asked the department to look into the matter and report to the KDA forthwith.
The KDA chief also lamented that the IT/BT department had not furnished any action taken reports to the Authority pertaining to the review conducted two years back.
He took serious exception to the department’s neglect of Kannada, especially in giving all the information pertaining to it in English on the website. This should be rectified and Kannada should be used forthwith, he said.
Apart from CM's e-administration adviser Belur Sudarshana, IT/BT department director Meena Nagaraj, KDA secretary Dr K Muralidhar, KDA chairman’s personal secretary Dr Veerashetty, web portal’s planning officer Satish and others participated in the online review meeting.