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Dr. SACHIN S BHAT

Professor & Head
Electronics & Communication Engineering
sachinsbhat.ec@sode-edu.in, sachinbhat88@gmail.com
  • B.E(Electronics and Communication Engineering
  • M.Tech(Digital Electronics and Communication)
  • Ph.D(Deep Learning)
Deep Learning, Digital Image Processing, Large Language Models, Linguistics, Indology
4 Years 2 Months
8 Years 5 Months
3 Years
  • Founder and Director, Alar Innovations Pvt Ltd
  • Adviser, AION Health Solutions Pvt Ltd
  • Board of Studuies(BoS) member of Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru
  • Co-founder and Director, XoBox Life Pvt Ltd
  • Board of Exams and malpractice committee member,Nitte University
  • Appointed Kannada technical book writer by AICTE under New Education Policy
  • Winner of Karnataka State Mobility Grand Challenge and received startup grant of 60 lakhs for ‘Accident information on-site' , 2022
  • Startup India grant of 11.5 lakhs for Magnetic Sponge Counting System, 2022
  • Book on 'Artificial Intelligence in Kannada' Published and Released by VTU
  • Best Project of the year award for 'Artificial Knee Assistance' by KSCST in 2021
  • Best paper award in Springer InCITe - 2022, Amity University, 2022
  • Best Paper award in IEEE DELCON 2022 at Netaji University, Delhi
  • Best paper award in IEEE DISCOVER 2021 at NMAMIT, Nitte
  • Best paper award in CISCON 2021 at MIT, Manipal
  • International distinguished young researcher award 2020 by Green Thinkers International Society
  • Best Incubation proposal in Elevate Unnati 2020-21 by Dept. of Electronics, IT,BT and S&T, Govt. of Karnataka award
  • Best Project of the year award for 'AI for Safe Bearing Capacity of Soil' by KSCST in 2022
  • 5 best paper awards in International Research Colloquium on Advances in Engineering and Technology at MIT, Dubai, July 12, 2020
  • Best paper award in Springer International Conference on AIDE-2019 at NMAMIT, Nitte
  • Best paper award in International conference on interdisciplinary research and technological developments at Punjab University, Chandigarh, 2014
  • Best paper award in National Conference on information science 2011 at MIT, Manipal
  • Best Paper award at NCORETECH-19, LBSIT, Kerala
  • National Champion in ISRO-IITB-AICTE MAPATHON-2021
  • Best Research Award in International Conference on Engineering, Science and Medicine 2021, Chennai
  • Fellow in International Association of AI and Law
  • Senior Member: International Association of Engineers
  • Senior Member: The Asian Society of Researchers
  • Senior Member: International Statistical Engineering Association
  • Senior Member: Universal Association of Computer and Electronics Engineers
  • Senior Member: Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors
  • Winner of Karnataka State Mobility Grand Challenge and received startup grant of 60 lakhs for ‘Accident information on-site' in Sep 2022
  • Appointed as Engineering Text Book Writer in Kannada by AICTE
  • Deep Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Digital Image Processing
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Palaeography
  • Document Analysis
  • Linguistics
  • Indology

1. Startup grant of 5000$ from Amazon in 20242. VGST RGS fund of 3 lakhs for "Monitoring and modeling of ecosystem for conservation of biodiversity in western Ghats" in Jan 20233. Startup grant of 11.5 lakhs for the project "Magnetic Surgical Sponge Detection System" by MSME, Govt. of India in July 20224. Startup grant of 60 lakhs for 'Accident Information on site' by Dept. of IT-BT, Govt. of Karnataka in Sep 20225. Research Grant of 10 lakhs by VTU under Competitive Research Grant for the project ‘Digital Documentation of Halegannada Inscriptions’ in 2021-226. Research grant of 1 lakh by Karnataka Science and Technology Academy to ‘Study of deep learning techniques for the character recognition of Kannada’ under small grants scheme in 20227. Research grant of 1 lakh by Karnataka Science and Technology Academy to ‘Grammatical tagging and Summarization for Kannada documents’ under small grants scheme in 20228. Grant of 0.25 lakhs by Karnataka Science and Technology Academy to ‘NLP for Indian Languages’ under small grants scheme in 20229. Funding of 1.5 lakhs by KSCST for the proposal ‘Sensor based device for predicting safe bearing capacity of soil’ under Faculty Project Programme in 202210. Funding of 1 lakh under Competitive Research Grant from TEQIP CELL, VTU for the project ‘Text summarization of Kannada text’ in 2020.11. Startup India seed fund of 30 lakhs by STEP, Delhi in June 2022

  • PG - 4
  • PhD - 6
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  1. Chief Guest for the inauguration of FDP on AI-ML-DL Applications at NMAMIT, Nitte on 26 Sept 2022 and Delivered Keynote Address on “Visualizing Convolutional Neural Networks”
  2. Chief Guest for the inauguration of Sceptix club and delivered a talk on ‘FOSS’ at St. Joseph Engineering College, Mangaluru, 16 June 2022
  3. Delivered a session on “Applications of AI in Civil Engineering” at Prerana 2022 – FDP on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering, 08 April 2022, Udupi
  4. Delivered Tech-talk at NicheSolv Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru on 29 Macrh 2022.
  5. Resource person for the workshop “Deep Learning for Computer Vision” arranged by Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited(BHEL) and SangamOne on 21 June 2021.
  6. Delivered a talk on “Sanskrit and technology” organised by IEEE ComSoc and IEEE EMBS Bangalore Chapters on 16 March 2021
  7. Appointed as Scientific Committee Member in RYMEC, Ballari
  8. Organizing committee member for International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology (BECB 2021), organized by Nanchang Hangkong University, China
  9. Delivered a talk on “Understanding, Visualising and Implementing Convolutional Neural Network” organised by ISTE Faculty Chapter, SMVITM on 24 September 2020
  10. Chief Guest and Session chair in national level paper presentation, Vistara-2020 at S.G. Balekundri Institute of Technology, Belagavi on 29-30 July 2020
  11. Session chair in ‘Sambhram-2020, A national level technical fest at Shri Devi Institute of Technology, Mangaluru on 12-13 March 2020
  12. Coordinator of NCETSE-2018, ICETSE-2020
  13. Conference chair for sessions in NCETSE-2018, NCETSE-2019, ICETSE- 2020, IEEE DISCOVER 2020
  14. Resource person and coordinator of workshops on Arduino and Mobile Application Development at SMVITM, Android Application Development at RNSPU, Murdeshwar, Feb 2020
  15. Institutional IIOT Club coordinator, Newsletter Coordinator, ECO Club coordinator
  16. Reviewer of scopus indexed journals: Computational Intelligence And Machine Learning, Journal of Computer Science, Journal of Engineering Research and Technology, Science Publications, IEEE Access Journal, SAGE Publication

  1. Sachin S Bhat, Alaka Ananth, & Venugopala P. S., “Design and Evolution of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks in Image Classification–A Review”, International Journal of Integrated Engineering15(1), 213-225, 2023
  2. Sachin Bhat, Alaka Ananth, Rajashree Nambiar, Nagaraj Bhat, “Building Dataset and Deep Learning based inception model for the Character Classification of Tigalari Script”,  Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, Singapore, 2022. P: 239-252
  3. Alaka Ananth, Sachin S Bhat, Rushali Naik, “Parts of Speech Tagging and Extractive Summarization Techniques for Kannada Documents”, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 750. Springer, Singapore, p: 367-380
  4. Sachin Bhat, Alaka Ananth, Preema Dsouza, K Sharanyalakshmi, “Human Body Measurement Extraction from 2D images” Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer, Singapore, 2021, Vol. 752, p: 343-352
  5. KS Jithendra Kumara, Usha Jinendra, Sachin Bhat, “Palladium metal embedded on mesoposrous graphene oxide as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for Suzuki coupling reaction”, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2021, 46(7), p: 2874-2879
  6. Sachin Bhat, Kannika Priyadarshini, “An app based Kannada to English Transliteration system for mobile camera images”, Solid State Technology, Vol.63, Issue:2, 2020, p: 9112-9119
  7. Sachin Bhat, Thejashree, Thrishna, Chaitra, Vidyashree, “Anthropometric measurement extraction using perspective transform”, Journal of Critical Review, Vol 7, Issue 10, p: 3253-3258
  8. Sachin Bhat, Seshikala G, “Character Recognition of Tulu script using Convolutional Neural Network, Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering, Springer, Vol 1133, p: 121-131.
  9. Alaka Ananth, Tanzila Nargis, Sachin Bhat, “Stress state detection of social media user using neural network based factor graph model”, Test Engineering and Management, Volume 83, Issue 8, 2020, p:17946-17953
  10. Usha Jithendra, Sachin Bhat, “Comparative physical study of evans blue by FE3O4@CF-R coated combination of decorated GO and TIO2 magnetic nanocomposite”, Rasayan: Journal of Chemistry, Volume 13, Number 2, April 2020, p: 1000-1007
  11. Sachin Bhat, Seshikala G, “Text Extraction and a Deep CNN Based Model for Character Classification in Kannada Documents”, International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, Volume 8, Issue 8, June 2019, p: 2957-2962
  12. Sachin Bhat, Seshikala G, “Restoration of characters in degraded inscriptions using phase binarization and geodesic morphology”, International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, Volume 7, Issue 6, March 2019, p:1070-1075
  13. Sachin Bhat, Seshikala G, “Preprocessing of historical manuscripts using phase congruency and gaussian mixture model”, Far East Journal of Electronics and Communication, Volume 19, Issue 1, 2019, P:47-69
  14. Sachin Bhat, Pavitra, Sheetal Rhea D’souza,” The Analysis of Disease from MRI Image using Automatic Segmentation”, International Journal of Science & Engineering Development Research, Volume 3 Issue 5, June-2018
  15. Sachin Bhat, Phebe Ann Samuel, Joyline, Raghavendra Rao P, “Automatic Rice Dispensing in Ration office using RFID and GSM Module”, International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Research, Volume 9, issue 4, April 2018, ISBN:2229-5518
  16. Sachin Bhat, Sandesh Kumar, Sowmya Bhat, Vrunda Adkar, “High Speed Data Search Content Addressable Memory using Parity Check Bit”, International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Research , Volume 9, issue 4, April 2018, ISBN:2229-5518
  17. Avinash N J, Sachin Bhat, Kusuma Prabhu, Sowmya Bhat, Rajashree Nambiar, “An Efficient Public Distribution System using IOT,GSM and BAN Technology”, International Journal of Engineering Research in Electronics and Communication, Volume 4, Issue 11, November 2017, ISBN: 2394-6849
  18. Vrunda Adkar, Sachin Bhat, Shareen Noronha, Krishna Kumar, Chetan R, “Tongue driven wireless assistance technology for wheelchair movement”, International Journal for Engineering Research and Technology, Engineering Science and Application, Volume 49, Issue 6, July 2017, ISBN:2231-5381
  19. Avinash N J, Sachin Bhat, ”ICA Algorithm for Image Enhancement and Improvement of Word and Character Recognition In Epigraphs”, International Journal of Current Engineering And Scientific Research”, Volume 4, Issue 5, July 2017, ISBN: 2393-8374
  20. Kaushal Shetty, Reshma Dsouza, Sachin Bhat, “GSM based automatic meter reading and billing system”,  International Journal for Research Trends and Innovation, Volume 2, issue 7, August 2017, ISBN: 2456-3315
  21. Sachin Bhat, Lahari Vaidya, Lekhana Bhandary, Harshini , “Human detection using depth sensing camera”, Journal of research trends, Volume 2, Issue 10, September 2017, ISBN:2321-2705
  22. Shareen Noronha, Prajna P, Pratheeksha, Sachin Bhat, ” Power transmission system for charging smart phones using RF module”, Volume 6, Issue 5, June 2017, ISBN:2278-1021
  23. Sachin Bhat, Veena Kulal, Shwetha Shetty, “Areca Copt: Pesticide sprayer quadcopter”, International Journal of Innovative Research In Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation and Control Engineering”, Volume 5, Issue 5, June 2017, ISBN: 2321-2004
  24. Nikhil Acharya, Sachin Bhat, “Implementation of Collision Avoidance System for Hairpin Bends in Ghats using Proximity Sensors”, International Journal of Current Engineering And Scientific Research , Volume 3, issue 11, July 2016, ISBN: 2393-8374
  25. Namitha Karkera, Sachin Bhat, “Emergency Vehicle Detection And Traffic Density Notification System“, International Journal of Informative & Futuristic Research, Volume 3 Issue 11 July 2016
  26. Sachin S Bhat , H.V. Balachandra Achar, “Character recognition and Period prediction of ancient Kannada Epigraphical scripts”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, Volume. 3, Issue 1, February 2016
  27. Sachin Bhat, Amrutesh M, Ashik, Chidanand Das, “Translating Indian sign language to text and voice messages using flex sensors”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering Volume. 4, Issue 03, May 2015, ISSN: 2278-1021.
  28. Nagaraj Bhat, Sachin Bhat,  C. Gowda, “Pixel Based Volume Estimation of Water Bodies Using Remote Sensing and GIS”, International Journal of Electronics & Communication Technology, IJECT Volume 5, Issue 4, Dec 2014
  29. Sachin Bhat, “Blob classification and merging techniques for cellular images using Baysian epistemology”, International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 5, June – 2014.

  1. Sachin Bhat, “Development of a Residual Neural Network Architecture for the Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Images”, Springer International Conference on Advances in Data Science and Computing Technologies, Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal, India, 23-24 June 2022
  2. Sachin Bhat, “An investigation on the extractive summarization of Kannada text”, 2nd Springer International Conference On Signal & Data Processing, VIT Bhopal, 10-11 June 2022
  3. Sachin Bhat, “Hybrid particle swarm optimization based deep learning model for the stage classification of lung cancer”, 2nd Springer International Conference On Signal & Data Processing, VIT Bhopal, 10-11 June 2022
  4. Sachin Bhat, “A stacked multichannel feature map based U-Net model for brain tumor segmentation”, 2nd Springer International Conference On Signal & Data Processing, VIT Bhopal, 10-11 June 2022
  5. Sachin Bhat, “An SVM based approach for the quality estimation of Udupi jasmine”, 2nd Springer International Conference on Emerging Trends and Technologies on Intelligent Systems, CDAC Nodia, 23-24 March 2022.
  6. Sachin Bhat, “Evaluation of Support Vector Machine and Binary Convolutional Neural Network for automatic medicinal plant species identification”, 2nd Springer International Conference on Information Technology, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, 3-4 March 2022.
  7. Sachin Bhat, “Design of a Transliteration Application for Kannada Signboards”, IEEE DELCON 2022, Netaji Subhash University of Technology, New Delhi, 11-13 Feb 2022(Best paper award).
  8. Alaka Ananth, Sachin Bhat, “Secure Image Classification using Deep Learning”, Springer CISCON, MIT Manipal, 29-30 Nov 2021(Best paper award).
  9. Sachin Bhat, “Grammatical Tagging for the Kannada Text Documents using Hybrid Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory Model’, IEEE DISCOVER, NMAMIT, Nitte, 17-18 Nov 2021(Best paper award)
  10. Sachin Bhat, “Plant classification of Western Ghats using deep learning’, IEEE DISCOVER, NMAMIT, Nitte, 17-18 Nov 2021.
  11. Sachin Bhat, Gopika, “Data Analytics based Statistical Analysis of Air Pollution in the Major Cities of Karnataka.” 2021 5th International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC). IEEE, May 2021.
  12. Sachin Bhat, “Building Dataset and Deep Learning based inception model for the Character Classification of Tigalari Script” in Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering (AIDE 2020), NMAMIT, Nitte, 23-24 Dec 2020.
  13. Sachin Bhat, “Human Body Measurement Extraction from 2D images” in VLSI, Signal Processing, Power Electronics, IoT, Communication and Embedded Systems(VSPICE 2020) NMAMIT, Nitte, 23-24 Dec 2020.
  14. Sachin Bhat, “Palladium Metal Embedded on Mesoposrous Graphene Oxide as an efficient Heterogeneous Catalyst for Suzuki Coupling Reaction” in “Smart and Sustainable Developments in Materials, Manufacturing and Energy Engineering(SME 2020), NMAMIT, Nitte, 23-24 Dec 2020.
  15. Sachin Bhat, Alaka Ananth, “Parts of Speech Tagging and Extractive Summarization Techniques for Kannada Documents”, Springer CISCON, MIT Manipal, 30 Oct -01 Nov 2020.
  16. Sachin Bhat, “Convolutional Neural Network approach for the Classification and Recognition of Lung Nodules”, 4th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Communication and Aerospace Technology, RVS Technical Campus, Coimbatore, 05-07 Nov 2020
  17. Sachin Bhat, “Multilabel Spatial Image Recognition using Deep Convolutional Neural Network”, 4th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Communication and Aerospace Technology, RVS Technical Campus, Coimbatore, 05-07 Nov 2020
  18. Sachin Bhat, “Transliteration of Kannada text from images to English”, 5th research colloquium on Advances in Engineering and Technology at MIT, Dubai, July 12, 2020 (Best paper award in track IT)
  19. Sachin Bhat, “An approach towards the text summarization of Hindi news portals”, 5th research colloquium on Advances in Engineering and Technology at MIT, Dubai, July 12, 2020 in (Best paper award in track AI).
  20. Sachin Bhat, “An enhanced fuzy probabilistic C-means method for the segmentation of lung tumors”, 5th research colloquium on Advances in Engineering and Technology at MIT, Dubai, July 12, 2020(Consolation prize in track AI)
  21. Sachin Bhat, “Extraction of human body measurement using affine mode correction and green screen segmentation”, 5th research colloquium on Advances in Engineering and Technology at MIT, Dubai, July 12, 2020(Best paper award in track EC)
  22. Sachin Bhat, “Air quality monitoring and data analysis”, 5th research colloquium on Advances in Engineering and Technology at MIT, Dubai, July 12, 2020(Best paper award in track Datasciecnce)
  23. Sachin Bhat, “Character recognition of Tulu script using convolutional neural network”, Springer International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering, NMAMIT Nitte, 23-24 May, 2019 (Best paper award)
  24. Sachin Bhat, “Phase coherence based binarization of inscription manuscripts and its performance evaluation methods”, IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems, SAINT GITS College of Engineering, Kottayam, Dec 2018
  25. Sachin Bhat, “Enhancement and Reccognition of Kannada Inscriptions”, IEEE International conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computers, Communication and Computing, Vellore, Tamilnadu, Jan 2018
  26. Sachin Bhat, “Segmentation of text in ancient documents using convolutional neural network”, IEEE International conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computers, Communication and Computing, Vellore, Tamilnadu, Jan 2018
  27. Sachin Bhat, “Preprocessing and Binarization of Insription images using phase based features”, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Advances in Electronics, Computers and Communications, Reva University Bengaluru, Feb 2018
  28. Sachin Bhat, “Design and implementation of Binarization technique for Kannada epigraphs”, Decennial Conference of Karnatala Science and Technology Academy, Bengaluru, Jan 2018
  29. Sachin Bhat, “Preprocessing, Segmentation and OCR of Kannada epigraphs”, 1st International Research Conclave, Reva University Bengaluru, March 2018
  30. Sachin Bhat, Sandesh Kumar, Arun Upadhyaya, Sowmya Bhat, “High Speed Data Search Content Addressable Memory using Parity Check Bit”, NCETSE-2018, SMVITM, Udupi, April 2018
  31. Sachin Bhat,” Efficient Public Distribution system using IOT, GSM and BAN technology”, 4th International Conference on chip, circuitry, current, coding, combustion and composites, Sri Sairam College of Engineering, Bengaluru, Nov 2017
  32. Sachin Bhat, “ICA Algorithm for Image Enhancement and Improvement of Word and Character Recognition In Epigraphs”, International Conference on Academic Research in Engineering, Science and Technology, Bengaluru, May 2017
  33. Sachin S Bhat, “Character recognition and Period prediction of ancient Kannada Epigraphical scripts”, National Conference on Recent trends in Technology, LBSIT, Povval, Feb-2016
  34. Sachin Bhat, Hitha C.K, “Capacity Survey of Reservoirs Using Digital Elevation Model and Image Processing Techniques”, nCORETECH15, Lal Bahaddur Shastry College of Engineering and Technology, Kerala, Jan 2015
  35. Sachin Bhat “Pixel based volume estimation of water bodies using remote sensing and GIS”, International conference on interdisciplinary research and technological developments at Punjab University, Chandigarh, November 2014
  36. Sachin Bhat, “Pseudo blob classification and merging techniques for cellular images”, NCRTC, City college of engineering, Bangalore, 2014
  37. Sachin Bhat, “Bayes theorem to tackle the over segmentation of watershed” International conference on Recent trends in Real time systems at Don Bosco Institute of Technology, 2013
  38. Sachin Bhat, “Hot spot blob merging for real time image analysis” International Conference on VLSI Design and Information Technologies MET’S School of Engineering, Thrissur, Kerala 2011.
  39. Sachin Bhat, “Segmentation of irregular boundary images using watersheding” National Conference on information science, at MCIS, MIT, Manipal. 2011(Best paper award)
  40. Sachin Bhat, “Inhomogenous intensity and Irregular boundary image segmentation using iterative watersheding” in International Conference on Emerging trends in Engineering at NMAMIT, Nitte, 2011

  1. 10 days bootcamp on ‘Data Visualization using MATPLOTLIB’ in IIT Kottayam, Feb 2022
  2. 5 days FDP on “Research trends in Biomedical Applications”in BNMIT Bengaluru, 22-26 Oct 2021
  3. 2 days FDP on “Natural Language Processing” in Jain University, 21-22 March 2021
  4. 7 days FDP on “Data Mining and Analytics” in REVA University, 17-23 Feb 2021
  5. 5 days FDP on “Computation Biology” at REVA University, 02-06 Feb 2021
  6. 21 days FDP on “Deep Learning and its tools” at KLE Belagavi, 23 Nov-12 Dec 2020
  7. 7 days FDP on “Big Data Analytics using Spark and Scala” at REVA University, 27 July to 02 August 2020
  8. 5 days FDP on “ Challenges and opportunities in AI and ML” at Bheemanna Khandre Institute of Technology, Bhalki, 20-24 July 2020
  9. 5 days FDP on “Natural Language Processing” at REVA University, 30 June to 04 July 2020
  10. 4 days FDP on “Applied Machine Learning Using Python” at NMAMIT, Nitte, 09-12 June 2020
  11. 5 days FDP on “Neural Networks and Deep Learning” at REVA University, 01-05 June 2020
  12. 5 days FDP on “Machine Learning using Python”, by ATS Learning Solutions at REVA University, 25-29 May 2020
  13. 1 day FDP on “Computer Vision and ICN” at MIT Manipal, 22 November 2019
  14. 3 days FDP on Advanced topics in Machine Learning and Applications in Engineering & Technology at NMAMIT, Nitte, 26-28 October 2018
  15. 5 days FDP on Machine Learning for predictive modelling and data analytics using Python, REVA University, 23-27 July 2018
  16. 2 days National Workshop on research trends in signal and image processing, MIT Manipal, 06-07 October 2017
  17. 2 days FDP on “Handson Python for Datascience: Insight into Machine Learning with Tensorflow”, REVA University, Bengaluru, 06-07 July 2017
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Shri Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of Technology and Management

Vishwothama Nagar, Bantakal - 574115, Udupi District, Karnataka
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