Overview

• The Karnataka government confirmed plans to build a Vachana Mantapa in Kalaburagi to promote Basavanna’s vachana literature and legacy of social reform.
• Chief Minister Siddaramaiah directed immediate commencement of the project, with blueprints already underway.
• The Hyderabad Karnataka Education Society launched the Basavaprasada program to provide free meals to patients at Basaveshwara Teaching and General Hospital, inspired by Basavanna’s dasoha principle.
• The donation-driven meal program allows sponsors to fund a day’s meals for ₹11,000; initial contributions include ₹55,000 from Shashil G. Namoshi’s family and ₹17,100 from HKES staff.
• Basava Jayanti celebrations in Kalaburagi also included the felicitation of Deputy Commissioner B. Fouzya Taranum for winning the Election Commission’s best district election officer award.