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2) President, Bangalore District Sheep Breeders Association.
3) President, Taluk Adult Literacy Council, Doddaballapur.

4) President, Tubagere Rural Education Society, Doddaballapur.

5) President, Taluk Development Board, Doddaballapur.

6) President, Maruti Education Society at Rajaghatta, Doddaballapur.
7) President, Taluk Agricultural Produce Marketing Co-operative Society for 16 years.

8) President, Bangalore District Rural Congress Committee.

9) President, Vokkaligara Sangha,Doddaballapur.

10) Vice President Harijan SevakSangh, Mysore State.
11) Director, State Apex Co-operative Bank, Bangalore.

12) Director, Co-operative Union, Bangalore.

13) Member, University of Agricultural Sciences
14) Member, Sri Swamy Vivekananda Memorial, Madras State.

15) Member, Karnataka State Poultry Farmers Association

16) Forest Minister.
His contribution towards improvement in Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Bee Keeping
and Rural Education is admirable.

He was elected as a Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Doddaballapur
Constituency(1961)

As a Forest Minister, he protected our forests from illegal enclosures. Forest lands
were being converted to agricultural lands by cutting down of trees around Dandeli.
The miscreants involved in these activities were arrested and brought to court. I even
remember the time when Sri. Rame Gowda bought home two cubs home after they were
remember the time when Sri. Rame Gowda brought two tiger cubs home after they were
abandoned in the forest and were looking for their mother. We kids enjoyed feeding
those cubs with the milk bottles, but after a few days they were sent back to the forest.

Sri. G.Rame Gowda loved Agriculture and Animals. He bought the hay crushing machine
to cut the grass for the cows and also a milk pumping machine since there were more
than 50 cows at home. If I am not wrong, most of the milk supply for Doddaballapur was
provided by our family.

He worked towards equitable food distribution. He found that the grain distribution
in rural areas was not what was recorded in the ledgers. The distribution was supposed
to be 5-8 kgs., whereas the actual distribution was just 1 kg per family. If you all have
heard of the word, ‘KaNaja’ which means the place for storing grains, it would become
full after the harvest and the excess would be distributed amongst the workers. We also
had a tradition of making payasa after filling of the ‘KaNaja.’
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