Tag: Social Welfare Department

Social Welfare Department holds entrance exam to train aspirants
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Social Welfare Department holds entrance exam to train aspirants

February 19, 2024

Mysore/Mysuru: The Social Welfare Department had organised entrance exams for SC/ST and Backward Classes job aspirants to provide coaching for various competitive examinations yesterday. The examinations were held at Maharaja Government PU College on JLB Road, SBRR Mahajana PU College at Jayalakshmipuram, Government Girls PU College at People’s Park, Sri Vivekananda PU College at Jayalakshmipuram,…

Student submits fake marks card for cash prize
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Student submits fake marks card for cash prize

March 7, 2023

Mysore/Mysuru: A girl student created a fake marks card and submitted the same along with an application for the special cash prize given by the Social Welfare Department. The Department gives Rs. 25,000 cash prize to SC/ST students for scoring high marks and the girl student, studying in Yuvaraja’s College, had submitted a copy of…

Training for Army selection
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Training for Army selection

August 3, 2022

Mysore/Mysuru: The Social Welfare Department has organised a free training camp for youths who want to join the Indian Army or other uniform services.  Candidates from Karnataka belonging to Scheduled Caste community and those born between Oct. 1, 2000 and Apr. 1, 2005 are eligible to apply. Applicants must have a pass in SSLC exam….

Calling NGOs and organisations
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Calling NGOs and organisations

June 5, 2022

Mysore/Mysuru: The Social Welfare Department has invited applications from SC/ST community NGOs and organisations within Mysuru district to take part in the workshop and seminar organised under Vinaya Samarasya Yojana introduced by the State Government. Vinaya Samarasya Yojana is an awareness programme meant to eradicate untouchability in Gram Panchayats across the State. The workshop includes…

Hostel Wardens go on tour; parents take objection
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Hostel Wardens go on tour; parents take objection

February 28, 2022

Mysore/Mysuru: Opposing the Wardens of Post-Matric Students Hostels run by Social Welfare Department going on a tour en masse, parents of hostel students have strongly objected to the move, contending that the health, security and safety of children are under peril in the absence of Wardens. Pointing out that there are a total of 21…

Hostel workers’ indefinite stir continues for second day
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Hostel workers’ indefinite stir continues for second day

February 15, 2022

Mysore/Mysuru: The indefinite stir launched by Outsourced Hostel Workers serving at Hostels run by the Social Welfare Department across the district, seeking release of backlog wages (6 month wages) and fulfillment of other demands, entered the second day today in the city. Outsourced Hostel workers, under the banner of  Karnataka Rajya Samyukta Vasathi Nilaya Karmikara…

Obavva Art of Self-Defence Training inaugurated in city
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Obavva Art of Self-Defence Training inaugurated in city

February 8, 2022

Girl students of Dharmapura Kittur Rani Chennamma Residential School present karate demonstration Mysore/Mysuru: In a bid to provide complete self-defence training to over 5,178 girl students including 2,316 students from Social Welfare Department, 1,862 from Backward Classes Welfare Department and students from various residential Schools and post-matric girls hostels, to ward off attackers and criminals,…

New hostel building in city to come up at Rs. 9.89 crore
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New hostel building in city to come up at Rs. 9.89 crore

December 19, 2021

Belagavi: Social Welfare Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary said that the Social Welfare Department will build a new hostel building in Mysuru city at a cost of Rs.9.89 crore. Replying to a question by Chamaraja MLA L. Nagendra during the ongoing Legislature session at Belagavi on Wednesday, Poojary said that the Social Welfare Department has received…

Official suspended for harassing girl student
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Official suspended for harassing girl student

February 27, 2021

Mysore/Mysuru: An Assistant Director of Social Welfare Department has been suspended on charges of harassing a girl student who had complained about lack of water in the hostel which she stayed. M.K. Megha, who was serving as the Assistant Director of Mysuru taluk in the Social Welfare Department, is the one who has been suspended…

Rs. 3 lakh bribe to cover up Govt. Hostel mismanagement
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Rs. 3 lakh bribe to cover up Govt. Hostel mismanagement

June 2, 2020

Social Welfare Department Assistant caught red-handed while accepting Rs. 1 lakh Mysore/Mysuru: A Second Division Assistant (SDA) in the Office of Joint Director, Social Welfare Department, was trapped by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) when he was accepting a bribe of Rs. 1 lakh from a Hostel Warden. The SDA had promised the Warden that the…

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