Puttur: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Sunday that Kadaba could be declared as a new taluk in Dakshina Kannada district and a government first grade college would be opened there from the academic year 2017-18.
The CM was here for laying the foundation stone for a veterinary college. Speaking on the occasion he said that there was a proposal before the government to form 43 new taluks, including one in Kadaba. It would be declared as a taluk when new taluks would be announced.
“As many as 650 vacancies will be filled of the 692 vacant posts of government veterinary doctors in the State,” informed the CM. Siddaramaiah further said that of the 895 acres belonging to the Department of Animal Husbandry at Koila, 247 had been handed over to Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University, Bidar, for opening the veterinary college. The government had given administrative approval for opening the college and associated facilities at an estimated cost of Rs. 142 crore.
The Chief Minister said that the State had four veterinary colleges now with a provision to admit 290 students a year. The college proposed at Koila would be among three such colleges coming up in the State. The other two would be at Athani and Gadag. The college at Koila will admit 60 students per year.
Earlier, B. Ramanath Rai, Minister in-charge of Dakshina Kannada, and S. Angara, MLA, under whose Assembly constituency Kadaba falls, requested the Chief Minister to sanction a government degree college in Kadaba.
