Karnataka gets new Health Secretary
The Hindu
Anil Kumar T.K., Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department (Medical Education), has been transferred and appointed Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, relieving
Anil Kumar T.K., Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department (Medical Education), has been transferred and appointed Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, relieving Javed Akthar from the concurrent charge.
Rashmi Mahesh V., Principal Secretary, Backward Classes Welfare Department, has been given the concurrent charge of Principal Secretary, Kannada and Culture Department. Selvakumar S., Secretary, Department of Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood, has been placed in concurrent charge of the post of Secretary, Cooperation Department, relieving Jayaram N. from the concurrent charge.
Ravishankar J., Commissioner for Excise, has been transferred and posted as Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department (Medical Education). He has also been given the concurrent charge of the post of Commissioner for Excise until further orders. Vishal R. has been transferred and appointed Commissioner for Public Instruction, in place of Anbu Kumar, who has been appointed as Managing Director, Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Bengaluru.
Unfurling the zine handed to us at the start of the walk, we use brightly-coloured markers to draw squiggly cables across the page, starting from a sepia-toned vintage photograph of the telegraph office. Iz, who goes by the pronouns they/them, explains, “This building is still standing, though it shut down in 2013,” they say, pointing out that telegraphy, which started in Bengaluru in 1854, was an instrument of colonial power and control. “The British colonised lands via telegraph cables, something known as the All Red Line.”
The festival in Bengaluru is happening at various locations, including ATREE in Jakkur, Bangalore Creative Circus in Yeshwantpur, Courtyard Koota in Kengeri, and Medai the Stage in Koramangala. The festival will also take place in various cities across Karnataka including Tumakuru, Ramanagara, Mandya, Kolar, Chikkaballapura, Hassan, Chitradurga, Davangere, Chamarajanagar and Mysuru.