KDA launches a campaign at Vikasa Soudha to teach Kannada to non-Kannadigas BENGALURU: Amid the mounting opposition to the govt's move to divide Bengaluru into five administrative zones, Kannada Development Authority (KDA) expressed concerns Tuesday, saying the move could possibly make "Kannadigas refugees in their own land". Launching a campaign to teach Kannada to non-Kannadigas at Vikasa Soudha, Purushothama Bilimale, chairperson of KDA, revealed the authority has already conveyed this sentiment to deputy chief minister and Bengaluru development minister DK Shivakumar. Asserting that KDA isn't worried about the city's decentralisation from an administrative perspective, he said, "Bengaluru today has more non-Kannadigas than Kannadigas.
In several parts of the city, Kannadigas have become refugees." He added, "Further, if the govt decentralises administration , KDA is worried Kannada and Kannadigas may get caught in the vortex of problems if many non-Kannadigas become members of corporation and are elected as mayors!" Reflecting on the contemporary urban scenario, Bilimale lamented, "The Kannada language is in crisis. Evidently, Kannada is no longer required at home and schools but is needed only by litterateurs.
Sadly, there is no demand for the works of such scholars as the market also doesn't want Kannada! Hence, we all are becoming mute spectators of Kannada language's decline." Pointing to the rising number of multinational companies (MNCs), he said, "As the IT capital.