The Prime Minister's Office announced that the Pink Line of Bengaluru Metro will be inaugurated between Kalena Agrahara and Tavarekere.
The stretch has been developed at a cost of around Rs 3,470 crore.
A metro ride from Tavarekere to IIM Bangalore metro station is part of the programme.
The new line is meant to ease daily commuting and cut travel time in the city.
It forms part of development projects worth over Rs 15,600 crore in Bengaluru announced for the Prime Minister's visit of 13-14 November.
Those projects cover urban mobility, power transmission, renewable energy, petroleum infrastructure, waste management and railways.
Bengaluru's metro network is run by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited and is known as Namma Metro.
Cost of the stretch:Rs 3,470 croreBengaluru projects announced:over Rs 15,600 crore
Why it matters for exams: Metro corridors and the operating corporation are standard questions; the Pink Line and BMRCL are the durable facts here.
India's largest underground LPG storage cavern at Mangaluru will be dedicated to the nation, the Prime Minister's Office said.
The facility has been constructed at a cost of over Rs 850 crore.
Its storage capacity is 80,000 metric tonnes.
A 9.4 km LPG pipeline connects New Mangalore Port to the main terminal.
The pipeline is meant to move and store LPG more efficiently.
The cavern adds to India's LPG storage capacity, which matters for cooking gas supply security.
The project is part of the Bengaluru package of development projects announced for Karnataka.
Storage capacity:80,000 metric tonnesCost:over Rs 850 crorePipeline length:9.4 km
Why it matters for exams: A 'largest in India' claim with a place and a capacity figure is the kind of fact asked in one line.
The Prime Minister's Office announced that the Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express will be flagged off on 13 November.
The service will link Bengaluru with coastal Karnataka and Goa.
It is to touch Hassan, Sakleshpur, Mangaluru, Udupi, Murdeshwar, Gokarna and Karwar before Madgaon.
On the same day the electrification of the 55 km Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya Road ghat railway section is to be dedicated to the nation.
That section runs through one of India's most difficult railway terrains.
With that work done, the entire Bengaluru-Mangaluru rail route becomes fully electrified.
Faster rail links on this route are expected to help tourism along the Karnataka coast.
Ghat section electrified:55 km
Why it matters for exams: Vande Bharat routes and completed electrification corridors are routine railway questions.
Four redeveloped railway stations in Karnataka will be inaugurated under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, the Prime Minister's Office said.
They are Chamarajanagar, Chikkamagaluru, Sakleshpur and Subrahmanya Road.
The scheme rebuilds existing stations rather than building new ones.
The redeveloped stations are to offer better passenger amenities.
They are also meant to work as city centres that support local trade.
Tourism in the surrounding areas is expected to gain from the upgrade.
The four stations were part of the same Karnataka projects announcement.
Stations redeveloped:4
Why it matters for exams: The Amrit Bharat Station Scheme and what it does is a named-scheme fact that recurs in exams.
The foundation stone is to be laid for GAIL's Compressed Biogas plant at Haralakunte in Bengaluru, the Prime Minister's Office said.
The plant will process about 300 tonnes of municipal solid waste every day.
From that waste it will produce 12.6 tonnes of Compressed Biogas.
Compressed Biogas, or CBG, can be used in place of conventional fuels.
The project is presented as a step towards scientific waste management in the city.
It is part of the waste management leg of the Bengaluru projects package.
Cutting dependence on fossil fuels is the stated environmental aim.
The 45 km Bagalkot-Wandal railway line doubling section in Karnataka is to be dedicated to the nation, the Prime Minister's Office said.
It forms part of the 284 km Gadag-Hotgi Doubling Project.
The section is expected to improve passenger and freight movement and support local trade.
It will also help coal supply to the Kudgi NTPC plant.
On the same occasion the Devangonthi Marketing Terminal of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited at Bengaluru is to be dedicated.
That terminal has been built at an investment of Rs 330 crore.
It is meant to strengthen petroleum product storage and distribution in Karnataka.
The Prime Minister's Office has announced that the COSMOS-Mysuru Planetarium in Karnataka is to be inaugurated on 13 November. The Indian Institute of Astrophysics built it, and it is the first LED Dome planetarium in the country. It stands at the foot of the Chamundi Hills, inside the Mysore university campus. Its tilted dome measures 15 metres and holds roughly 6,150 panels, which together carry about 4.2 crore LEDs. A usual planetarium needs projectors to throw pictures onto a blank dome, while every panel here can be driven in real time. Sky Theatre shows are to run in Kannada, English and Hindi. Galleries, a museum of astronomy models, a lecture hall and a training centre go with it.
Dome size:15-metre tilted domeLEDs:4.2 crore
Why it matters for exams: A national first plus the research body behind it: COSMOS-Mysuru and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics are both likely one-mark facts.
Two schemes to carry renewable power out of north Karnataka are to be inaugurated, the Prime Minister's Office has announced. One is Phase-II of the Transmission Scheme for Integration of Renewable Energy Zones, covering Koppal-II and Gadag-II, built with an investment of about Rs 4,450 crore. It is to evacuate roughly 2 GW of renewable potential from the Koppal and Gadag areas. The other, costing about Rs 1,370 crore, serves the solar energy zone in Bidar and sets up a Bidar Pooling Station. That one is to evacuate 2.5 GW of solar power from the area. Foundation stones are also to be laid for a renewable zone scheme of over Rs 3,450 crore at Davanagere/Chitradurga and Ballari. A further strengthening project at Davanagere and Ballari is worth over Rs 1,100 crore.
Koppal-II and Gadag-II scheme:Rs 4,450 croreBidar solar evacuation:2.5 GW
Why it matters for exams: Renewable energy zones and the idea of evacuation capacity in GW are standard energy-sector questions.
Uttara Kannada is among the largest districts of Karnataka, and forest covers the greater part of its area, with roughly a tenth of its land under agriculture and horticulture. Its coast runs about 140 km along the Arabian Sea; Goa and the Belgaum district lie to its north, Dharwar to the east, and Shimoga and Udupi to the south. Twelve taluks make up the district: Karwar, Kumta, Ankola and Honnavar, Bhatkal and Sirsi, Siddapur and Yellapur, Haliyal and Mundgod, Dandeli, and Joida, which is also called Supa. Six Assembly constituencies, four revenue sub-divisions, 229 gram panchayats and 1,289 villages sit inside it, and both Kannada and Konkani are widely spoken. Rivers cross it through the monsoon: the Kali, the Gangavali or Bedti, the Aghanashini, the Sharavati, the Venkatapur and the Varada. On those rivers stand the Supa, Kadra, Kodasalli and Gerusoppa hydroelectric dams, and the district also carries the Kaiga nuclear power project. Gokarna's Mahabaleshwar temple, the Madhukeshwar temple at Banavasi and the forts at Mirjan and Sonda are its best known monuments, and Yakshagana is performed here. The Siddi, Kunabi, Halakki Vokkaliga, Gonda and Gouli are the district's main tribes, the Halakki Vokkaligas being described as its aboriginals.
Taluks:12Coastline:About 140 kmAssembly constituencies:6Gram panchayats and villages:229 and 1,289Nuclear project:Kaiga
Why it matters for exams: State focus questions ask for a district's taluks, rivers and major projects, and Kaiga, the Kali river and the Arabian Sea coast are the facts drawn from Uttara Kannada.
The National Law School of India University, known as NLSIU, was the first national law university set up in the country, and it works from inside the Bengaluru University campus. Its governing statute is a State law, the National Law School of India Act, cited as Karnataka Act 22 of 1986; notification in the official Gazette followed the next year. That Act gave the University full administrative and academic autonomy and remains its basic governing document. The Chief Justice of India is its Chancellor, and the Chairman of the Bar Council of India chairs its General Council; the governing bodies also seat representatives of the judiciary, the Government of Karnataka and the faculty. The idea came up before the Bar Council of India, which carries a statutory duty to maintain standards of professional legal education under the Advocates' Act, 1961, and grew into an autonomous institution with deemed university status. Professor Madhava Menon was its founding director, and the Bar Council of India Trust registered the National Law School of India Society under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960. The School was among the first in India to run a five-year integrated law degree at the undergraduate level.
Governing Act:National Law School of India Act, Karnataka Act 22 of 1986Chancellor:The Chief Justice of IndiaChairman of the General Council:Chairman of the Bar Council of IndiaCampus:Bengaluru University campusFounding director:Professor Madhava Menon
Why it matters for exams: Who is Chancellor of a national law university and which Act created it are standard polity and education questions, and NLSIU is the first of its kind.
NLSIUNational Law School of India University — The first national law university in India, at Bengaluru in Karnataka.
Deemed universityStatus granted by the University Grants Commission — It lets an institution award its own degrees without being a conventional university.
General CouncilThe apex body of NLSIU — Chaired by the Chairman of the Bar Council of India.
Bidar is a hill-top city on the Deccan plateau in the north-eastern corner of Karnataka and the headquarters of the district of the same name. Its name is traced to bidiru, the word for bamboo, after the clusters the place was once known for; Bidaroor and Bidare were the forms it passed through. It lies about 700 km from the State capital, Bengaluru. The fort at Bidar is more than five hundred years old, and the State Department of Archaeology, Museums and Heritage lists 61 monuments in the district, about thirty of them tombs in and around the city, which is how the nickname City of Whispering Monuments arose. Under the streets runs a Karez, also called a qanat: an underground network of aqueducts, built in the fifteenth century, more than 3 km long with 21 air vents, dug to carry drinking water to the settlements and to the garrison inside the fort where rocky soil made wells hard. The city gives its name to the Bidri handicraft, and it is counted among the holy places of Sikh pilgrimage. Bidar also holds the second largest training centre of the Indian Air Force, where prospective fighter pilots fly advanced jet training on the BAe Hawk, and no place in north Karnataka is colder or wetter.
Meaning behind the name:Bidiru, the word for bambooMonuments listed in the district:61Length of the Karez:More than 3 km, with 21 air ventsDistance from Bengaluru:About 700 kmAircraft used for advanced jet training:BAe Hawk
Why it matters for exams: Bidar carries three durable facts at once: the Bidri craft, the Karez water system and the Air Force training station, and its fort is on the archaeological map.
Chikkamagaluru is a hill district of Karnataka whose mountains belong to the Western Ghats, and the highest point in the whole State stands inside it: Mullayanagiri, at 1,926 metres above sea level. Forests cover about thirty per cent of the district, measured at 2,108.62 square kilometres, and the average rainfall is put at 1,925 millimetres. Two protected forests lie here, the Kudremukh national park and the Bhadra wildlife sanctuary. Shimoga lies to its north, Davangere to its north-east, Chitradurga and Tumkur to its east, Hassan to its south and Udupi to its west, and its headquarters is 251 km from Bengaluru. Five rivers flow through the year: the Bhadra, the Tunga, the Hemavati, the Netravati and the Vedavathi. Iron, magnetite and granite are found in its rocks; black soil surrounds the Baba Budan Giri hills while red and gravel soils lie to the south. Coffee was first grown in India in this district, the first crop raised in the Baba Budan Giri range, and the Amriteshwar temple at Amrithapura in Tarikere taluk was built by the Hoysala king Veera Ballala II.
Highest point in Karnataka:Mullayanagiri, 1,926 mForest cover:About 30 per cent, 2,108.62 sq kmAverage rainfall:1,925 mmProtected forests:Kudremukh national park and Bhadra wildlife sanctuaryDistance of headquarters from Bengaluru:251 km
Why it matters for exams: The highest peak of a State is a standard geography question, and Chikkamagaluru also carries Kudremukh, Bhadra and the origin of Indian coffee.