The Karnataka Bala Vikas Academy will organise events to honour talented children and facilitate their personality development.
Dakshayani Basavaraj Hubballi, chairperson of the academy, told presspersons here on Thursday that district-level science model making contests had been organised. Young scientists would be honoured and a State-level science exhibition would be held in September and October.
Ms. Drakshayani said the academy was planning special grama sabhas from November to December. The academy would conduct personality development camps at Bala Mandirs in October.
Sports event
She said that a State-level sports event would be held between October and November and an event for the mentally challenged would be held at a cost of Rs. 5 lakh in December. Ms. Drakshayani said Rs. 4 lakh would be spent to give away cash awards to top 10 students who score well in the SSLC examination.
Fellowships
She said the academy would award fellowships to eight candidates for conducting research in issues related to children and each candidate would get an honorarium of Rs. 50,000. Ms. Drakshayani said that academy had set aside Rs. 3 lakh for publishing children’s literature this year and would spend Rs. 2.8 lakh for conducting workshops on prose and poetry at the taluk level.
