After a 90 -minute meeting with senior officials of the Karnataka government, new chief minister of the Congress government Siddaramaiah on Monday announced a slew of measures worth Rs 4,409 crore benefitting 1.38 crore of the state’s total six crore population.
All the schemes announced were a part of the Congress manifeto released during the assembly elections. Flanked by Congress MLAs, who are aspirants for cabinet berths, Siddaramaiah in his maiden news conference as a CM at the Vidhana Soudha here said funds for the Rs 4,409 crore manifesto implementation package will be mobilised by cutting down on non-plan, wasteful expenditure, resources mobilization and through tax compliance.
To a query on what he meant by wasteful expenditure, Siddaramaiah without going into details referred to the vast amount of money which the BJP government had doled out to mutts. ‘The mutts had not asked the government for the money. And if somebody is giving money, why will anybody decline to accept?’ he asked.
A major decision taken apart from the populist schemes announced was scrapping amendments made to the Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle Prevention Act, 1964, which had completely banned slaughter of cattle.
Among the decisions taken, major one was giving 30 kg of rice at Re one to below poverty line families in urban and rural areas from 1 June. The scheme will cover 98.17 lakh beneficiaries with cost to the exchequer being Rs 460 per annum.
CONGRESS SUPPORTER DIES AT KARNATAKA CM’S OATH-TAKING
A 50-year-old Congress supporter died Monday following cardiac arrest soon after Karnataka's new Chief Minister Siddaramaiah took oath at a public venue in the city centre, police said.
‘The victim, Manjappa, a security guard, was taken to a nearby private hospital after he collapsed outside the venue (Kanteerva stadium) and was pronounced dead by doctors as he suffered a massive heart attack,’ a senior police official said.
‘CABINET FORMATION BY FRIDAY’
Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah today said Ministers would be inducted into his cabinet by Friday even as he acknowledged that it's a difficult exercise. Addressing a press conference after the maiden cabinet meeting, minutes after he was sworn in CM, he said he would be leaving for New Delhi on Tuesday or the day after to hold discussions with Congress president Sonia Gandhi in this regard. It’s being discussed whether it should have a two-tier (cabinet ministers and ministers of state) and also if they should be sworn in two installments (or at one go), he said.
All the schemes announced were a part of the Congress manifeto released during the assembly elections. Flanked by Congress MLAs, who are aspirants for cabinet berths, Siddaramaiah in his maiden news conference as a CM at the Vidhana Soudha here said funds for the Rs 4,409 crore manifesto implementation package will be mobilised by cutting down on non-plan, wasteful expenditure, resources mobilization and through tax compliance.
To a query on what he meant by wasteful expenditure, Siddaramaiah without going into details referred to the vast amount of money which the BJP government had doled out to mutts. ‘The mutts had not asked the government for the money. And if somebody is giving money, why will anybody decline to accept?’ he asked.
A major decision taken apart from the populist schemes announced was scrapping amendments made to the Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle Prevention Act, 1964, which had completely banned slaughter of cattle.
Among the decisions taken, major one was giving 30 kg of rice at Re one to below poverty line families in urban and rural areas from 1 June. The scheme will cover 98.17 lakh beneficiaries with cost to the exchequer being Rs 460 per annum.
CONGRESS SUPPORTER DIES AT KARNATAKA CM’S OATH-TAKING
A 50-year-old Congress supporter died Monday following cardiac arrest soon after Karnataka's new Chief Minister Siddaramaiah took oath at a public venue in the city centre, police said.
‘The victim, Manjappa, a security guard, was taken to a nearby private hospital after he collapsed outside the venue (Kanteerva stadium) and was pronounced dead by doctors as he suffered a massive heart attack,’ a senior police official said.
‘CABINET FORMATION BY FRIDAY’
Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah today said Ministers would be inducted into his cabinet by Friday even as he acknowledged that it's a difficult exercise. Addressing a press conference after the maiden cabinet meeting, minutes after he was sworn in CM, he said he would be leaving for New Delhi on Tuesday or the day after to hold discussions with Congress president Sonia Gandhi in this regard. It’s being discussed whether it should have a two-tier (cabinet ministers and ministers of state) and also if they should be sworn in two installments (or at one go), he said.