BELIEVE IT; THIS PADDY IS 400 YEAR OLD!

Chittiappa Naika was ruling Kiggatnad area in Kodagu, 400 years ago. His house along with the store house of paddy was burnt by his rivals, Machangada Chittiappa and Mukkatira Nayaka. The whole family, except a child was charred to death.

Now, as part of a project, Kodava Academy was digging the ground at that spot and recovered bags of paddy inside the soil! Believe it, the rice grains inside the paddy were in tact and its aroma still persists!

The grains are now sent to archeology department.

CARELESS TEACHERS FINED;

The Karnataka higher secondary Board has fined 29 erring teachers in the state, including three from Kodagu.

Sources disclosed that the teachers carelessly played with the future of the children during valuation. It was found on inspection that the marks were wrongly put, totalling wrongly done and in some cases valuation was half done due to negligence.

The board has fined upto ten thousand to teachers depending upon the gravity of mistake. Name of such teachers are also blacklisted. While Mr.Mascarenhas from Kushalnagar was fined rupees five thousand, Mr.Manjunath from Guddehosur and Gopal from Shanivarsanthe are fined rupees four thousand each.