Mangalore : The prominent language of India which is in the 8th schedule of Constitution duly spoken by lakhs of Konkani people all over the world got a meek support by Mangalore Corporation through the administration here.
Konkani academy started in 1995 by Chief Minister Veerappa Moilly Karnataka Government and made veteran Konkani writer late V J P Saldanha as first president. On 1999 Academy made this office at MCC for a monthly rent which is paid in the grant to enhance Konkani culture , literature , folk and other Konkani preserving and developing activities
Mangalore corporation had dig its entry steps for putting cables in early February of this year and made about 4 feet deep big pit type area in front of the office. People who are to enter the office has to take assistance of office peoples or others to get in to the office. A library inside the office with thousands of Konkani books are been referred by hundreds of senior people and Konkani study college students who write articles and others who refer the library for Post Graduate studies.
Anybody can see that negligence of the authority to maintain the minimum entry to the Karnataka Konkani Sahithya Academy office here in Mangalore at Lalbhag corporation office backside opposite the canteen . People say it is a utmost insulting incident to Konkani people of Mangalore ,comprising of GSB community, Christian community, Hindu community, Muslim community who speak Konkani not only that this office pays major portion of Government grant to pay lakhs of rent to the corporation . It wad said ,when orally mentioned about this problem , the authority there bluntly replied ; it seems that vacate the place.
April 12th 2019: After orally mentioning many times on this date officially a letter signed by the president of the academy was given and acknowledged by corporation officials .Already crossed two months for a small civil work of the place just below the nose of the MCC Commissioner this is happening to Konkani is very grievous, it is said . People are asking; is it because the president is not local and that is the reason to such negligence? Earlier Presidents were Local from Mangalore and powerful locally to do any nuisance by the MCC administration.
Konkani aged artists who come for pension references , folk artists and other performers for performing releases, students to visit the cultural hub are been denied the fair entry to the premises only because of
negligence ; that anybody can easily make out by the sight of the steps t the entry to Academy.
Monthly many meetings of members as well as programs are going on on a struggling entry of the venue is sheer step motherly attitude to Konkani academy people started to speak now.