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The 70th Karnataka Rajyotsava celebrations held present connected Saturday was marked by the recalling of efforts and sacrifices spanning decades of conflict that resulted successful the enactment of the State connected linguistic ground connected November 1, 1956.
Minister successful complaint of Mysuru territory H.C. Mahadevappa led the celebrations by paying tributes to scholars, Kannada writers, activists, and radical from assorted walks of beingness whose conflict resulted successful the reunification of Karnataka formed by the merging of antithetic areas of the past Mysore State and areas nether the British rule, including Bombay-Karnataka, Madras Presidency, Hyderabad-Karnataka, and Coorg.
Dr. Mahadevappa said that antithetic Kananda-speaking regions were merged into 1 State, which was renamed Karnataka successful 1973. It was a historical infinitesimal successful the past of the State arsenic it fulfilled the long-pending tendency and request of the Kannadigas, helium added.
The Minister recalled the efforts of Deputy Channabasappa, N.S. Hardikar, Manjappa, Gangadhar Rao Deshpande, R.R. Diwakar, Sakkri Ballacharya, Kuvempu, Masti Venkatesh Iyengar, K. Shivaram Karanth, A.N. Krisnna Rao, B.M. Srikantaiah, and galore others successful the reunification of Karnataka. Dr. Mahadevappa said that it was Aluru Venkta Rao who launched the conflict for the unification of Kannada-speaking regions which were parcelled retired among antithetic kingdoms and regimes.
The State has fixed commencement to slew of poets, litterateurs, writers, artists, etc., and they person enshrined the essence of Kananda civilization and individuality successful their works, the Minister added.
Noting that Kannada has produced 8 Jnanapeetha awardees — Kuvempu, Da.Ra. Bendre, Shivaram Karanth, Masti Venkatesh Iyengar, V.K. Gokak, U.R. Ananthamurthy, Girish Karnad, and Chandrashekar Kambar — the Minister said that they person enriched the connection done their literate works.
Referring to the maturation of Kananda successful the integer era, Dr. Mahadevappa said that the State authorities has taken galore initiatives for the promotion of Kannada and its usage astatine each levels of administration. This includes an encouragement to bundle improvement companies to usage Kannada connected integer platforms, making accusation disposable successful Kannada utilizing Unicode connected authorities websites, promoting the usage of Kananda connected mobile devices, etc.
As a effect of specified initiatives, the usage of Kannada has accrued connected integer platforms and augurs good for the aboriginal of the language, Dr. Mahadevappa added. It was imperative to beforehand Kannada on with subject and technology, and the authorities was moving successful this direction, the Minister said. Kannada is not simply a language, but an place for the radical of the State, and it was the work of each to uphold their determination civilization and fortify it, helium added.
The Minister noted the antiquity of Kannada arsenic evident successful the Halmidi inscriptions of 450 CE and pointed retired that the earliest extant Kananda literate enactment Kavirajamarga is dated to 850 CE.
The lawsuit was held astatine the Oval Grounds. The Minister hoisted the Kananda emblem and received salutations from the marching contingents, comprising the police, occurrence and exigency personnel, Home Guards, NCC, NSS, and students from assorted schools.
Dr. Mahadevappa made floral offerings to the representation of Goddess Bhuvaneshwari, emblematic of Kannada and Karnataka, and honoured the winners of the Rajyotsava awards. G.T. Deve Gowda, K. Harish Gowda, and Tanvir Sait, MLAs; N. Manje Gowda and K. Shivakumar, MLCs; G. Lakshmikant Reddy, Deputy Commissioner, and others were present.
