About Karnataka Government

Note: Karnataka government is taking tremendous interest in setting up e-parliament. Computer Society of India has judged Karnataka as the best e-governed State in India. CSI presented the award for the year 2000-01 to Chief Minister S M Krishna on May 16, 2002 at Vidhana Soudha. This is the first time the award has been instituted by the CSI.

Related Links

• Bangalore One Service Centre
• Birth/Death/Marriage Certificate
• Chief Ministers of Karnataka
• Council Of Ministers
• SM Krishna's Council Of Ministers (2004)
• Dharam Singh's Council Of Ministers (2005)
• HDK's Council of Ministers (2006)
• Corruption
• eGovernments Foundation
• Elections
• e-parliament
• Governors of Karnataka
• Govt Holidaysfor 2008
• Govt Holidays for 2007
• Govt Holidays for 2006
• IAS-IPS Officers
• Ideas for Governance - To compile ideas for use by government bodies for improving quality of life for all citizens
• KHAJANE: Karnataka State Online Treasury System
• Links to Govt sites
• Oppostion Leaders (Assembly)
• Speakers of Assembly
• 5-day week can save govt Rs 960 cr
  Rs 960 crore per annum. That's the estimated savings if state government offices across Karnataka switch over to a five-day week. And that savings could be used to construct 30 flyovers, each estimated at Rs 32 crore.
  
  The estimate was arrived at by the authorities based on three factors: average annual spending on office overheads, a comparison with the percentage saving recorded in 1983 when the five-day week was introduced for a few months and an estimated saving prepared as part of the budget proposals of 2002-03.
• Experts stress on e-policing
  e-governance is a must but not without safeguards. “Even in e-governance data can be manipulated. Government is planning to introduce digital certificate (signature) to the government employees who are in charge of maintaining the records under the Bhoomi project,” said Rajiv Chawla, director,  Survey Settlement & Land Records, Government of Karnataka.
• Karnataka to spend 50 cr on Kanakadasa birthplace
  The Karnataka Government will spend Rs 50 crore in the next decade to ensure overall development of Bada Village and Kaginele where saint Kanakadasa was born and brought up and its surrounding historical places.

Talking to newspersons here, Agriculture Minister Bandeppa Kashempur and Water Resources Minister K S Eswarappa said the Kaginele Development Authority, headed by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, held its first meeting on August 24 and decided to take up work on road links, main entrance and construction of a temple near the saint's memorial and also a research centre.

• Foreign Registration Office staff fear rain
  Even though the Police Department is on a modernisation drive like providing new buildings and equipment to the force, but the condition of the Foreigners Registration Office (FRO) at the Police Commissioner's office is so pathetic that the staff and people visiting the office fear the rains.
• Sanitation project to boost hygiene
  Hygiene and sanitation in the backward district of Chamarajanagara in Karnataka will get a boost when lavatory facilities will be provided to 1.37 lakh below poverty line (BPL) households under the Total Sanitation Campaign project.

The main aim of the Centrally-sponsored project, expected to be completed by 2009, was to eliminate open defecation and impart lessons in hygiene. It envisaged strong emphasis on information, education and communication to increase people's awareness on sanitary practices, health issues and usage of safe drinking water.

• Karnataka Cabinet expanded; 5 new members
  Karnataka Cabinet was expanded today with induction of five legislators into the Janata Dal (Secular) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coalition Ministry. Governor T N Chaturvedi administered oath of secrecy to Mr G T Devegowda, Mahadeva Prasad, R Srinivas (all JD-S), S Shivanna, Appasaheb Mallappa Pattanshetty (all BJP) at a simple ceremony held in Banquet Hall in Raj Bhavan.
• Bangalore Cyber crime lab to open in November 2006
  The Nasscom supported cyber crime lab will open in the first week of November in Bangalore. Speaking to CyberMedia News, Sanjay Vir Singh, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Economic Offenses, Corp of Detectives (COD), Bangalore, said that the lab will be a public-private partnership initiative.

Area & Population

• Karnataka Population: 5.273 crore (52.73 million)
• Urban Population 33.98%
• Rural Population 66.01%

Sex Ratio

• Overall average - 964 females per 1,000 males
• Urban - 940/1000
• Rural - 976/1000

Literacy

• Up from 56.04 % in 1991 to 67.04 %
• Urban - 81.05 % to 74.20 %
• Rural - 47.69 % to 59.68 %

Karnataka's total land area is 1,91,791 sq.km. It accounts for 5.83 percent of the total area of the country (32.88 lakh sq.km) and ranks eighth among major States of the country in terms of size. As per 1991 Census, the State's population was 448 lakhs. It was 5.3 percent of the total Indian population of 8,443 lakhs.

Among different states, Karnataka occupies eighth place with regard to population. The density of population as per 1991 Census was 235 persons per sq.km which was lower than the all-India density of 273 (excluding Assam and Jammu and Kashmir).

Among the states, Karnataka was in the thirteenth position. Bijapur occupies the largest geographical area of the State with 8.89 per cent and Bangalore (urban) Dt. has the smallest area with only 1.94 per cent.