{"id":11552,"date":"2013-01-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/01\/18\/karnataka-plans-to-monitor-astrologers\/"},"modified":"2013-01-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T12:00:00","slug":"karnataka-plans-to-monitor-astrologers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/01\/18\/karnataka-plans-to-monitor-astrologers\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka Plans To Monitor Astrologers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Under-scanner-Karnataka-plans-to-monitor-astrologers\/articleshow\/18017441.cms?prtpage=1\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANGALORE:, INDIA, January 14, 2013 (India Times): Soon, astrologers in Karnataka may have to register with the government. In an effort to check black magic, voodoo and witchcraft, the muzrai department is mulling over a policy in this regard. There is no law now to govern astrology, which is a huge business in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A committee comprising well-known astrologers, bureaucrats and experts will be constituted to find out ways to eliminate black magic. The committee will submit a report whether astrologers need to register with the government. The final decision will be subject to the committee&#8217;s recommendations,&#8221; muzrai minister Kota Srinivas Poojary told TOI.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said they need to monitor those who exploit people in the name of astrology, witchcraft and rituals. &#8220;We have been hearing of reports that the services of black magic practitioners and sorcerers are enlisted even to cure fever. All these should end,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal for registering hasn&#8217;t gone down well with the astrologers and rationalists. Noted astrologer Daivajna KN Somayaji, though, welcomed the objective, saying he wanted to know the criteria for registration. &#8220;Which organization will fix qualification for us? Anyone can register and hang a board stating he is a government-recognized astrologer. This will lead to commercialization of the profession,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source BANGALORE:, INDIA, January 14, 2013 (India Times): Soon, astrologers in Karnataka may have to register with the government. In,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}