Siddaramaiah invites NRI tycoons in UAE to invest in Karnataka

May 2, 2017

Dubai: KNRI Forum-UAE president and chairman of Fortune Group of Hotels, Praveen Kumar Shetty in association with industrialist Ronald Colaco hosted the first ever historical KNRI-UAE Business Meet with Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah at Fortune Park Hotel, Dubai Investment Park on Saturday the 29th April, 2017 evening with very many well-known business community Kannadiga invitees along with KNRI-UAE Office bearers which was a successful event hosted with dinner.

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Ronald Olivera as master of ceremony welcomed Siddaramaiah, Ronald Colaco, Praveen Shetty and all the dignified members of KNRI Business Executives to the business meet and elaborated on the event. CM was honoured with flower bouquet by Praveen Shetty and later other distinguished guests, Dr. Arathi Krishna, the Vice President of NRI Forum Govt. of Karnataka, Shri. Govindaraju, Ex-MLA Shri. H. Srinivas, MLA Moideen Bava and other dignitaries were welcomed with flower bouquet. Philanthropist Ronald Colaco was also later welcomed with flower bouquet by Praveen Shetty.

Siddaramaiah later inaugurated the event with the traditional lighting of the lamp along with Ronald Colaco & Praveen Shetty.

Praveen Shetty rendered the welcome speech and thanked all those who have wholeheartedly come to the event and also mentioned special thanks to the CM for accepting his invitation. He also thanked Ronald Colaco for supporting him in this historical event.

Ronald Colaco beautifully introduced Siddaramaiah with step by step chronological narration of a humble person’s true story from his early days to the current position how he ambitiously surpassed with double jump in his career all through and became a leader of the Kannadigas. He then said that he is proud to say that CM Siddramaiah is closely known to him all these years and respected him as a true leader.

The evening continued with introduction of all those invited Kannadiga NRI business community people who one by one introduced themselves to the audience as well as CM who was carefully listening all through.

CM later thanked Praveen Shetty for hosting such an event and thanked all those Kannadiga NRI business people for attending such an event. He then repeated some of his briefings of the previous day’s KNRI-UAE inauguration speech and said that it may educate those who have not attended the historical event. He requoted the words of the famous Kannada poet Kuvempu “Wherever you live, however you live be a Kannadiga anytime – Yelladuru iru, Yenthadaru iru, Yendendigu nee Kannada Vagiru “.

While briefing that Karnataka now has become No. 1 investment friendly state for Indians and also No. 2 as investors friendly state for foreign direct investments, he promised full cooperation and support with legal assistance to all those investors in their ventures in Karnataka.

While welcoming new investors he said that Karnataka government has started the Pravasi Bharatiya Conference which identifies the ‘Varshada Kannadiga’ and honours the identified business man of the year with the award every year.

He also briefed on the NRI Forum, Karnataka’s slogan ‘One State – Many Opportunities’ and said that Karnataka is the IT hub of the world with the state contributing over 40% of the IT Exports of India. He added that the GDP of the state grew at 5.3% v/s 5% of the India GDP and Karnataka is the ideal location for Hi-tech industries like Aerospace, Automobiles, IT & BT. He proudly stated that Bangalore is the Silicon Valley of India and Karnataka is the knowledge hub of Asia. The pamphlet distributed by the NRI Forum Karnataka states that Karnataka ranks 5th in India for growing vegetable crops, it is the largest producer of Floriculture, Spices, Aromatic and Medical Crops & Fruits, is producing 70% of India’s Coffee, 3rd state in India’s Sugar production and major scope for Agri-exports, Animal husbandry, Poultry, Milk & Fisheries in record.

Followed was question answer cession wherein some of the NRI Kannadigas who raised some valuable questions while CM responded politely with acceptance. Hafiz Saifulla, CEO of Zhumino Group of Companies highlighted on the vegetable exports from India which is banned due to the poor methodology. He said that we should work on providing Indian farmers with value added solutions so that our Products will have a high importance while on export market comparing the situations of those exports from other friendly states. He stressed that Karnataka should follow the methodology of Europe and set standards for Karnataka based perishable products. CM answering to his question invited him to raise this issue directly to him so that he will work on real solutions to this issue.

There were various other questions including providing spaces in some of the Industrial Zones and/or granting special zones for KNRI’s in those specified zones. Dr. Kaup, one of the respected member also stressed on giving permission for the foreign Educational Institutes and Universities to open up in Karnataka so that our own Kannadiga students will get some attractive opportunities to opt their higher studies in Karnataka instead of going to Europe.

CM shared and responded that there is a link created by the government for all the queries one may have and NRI Kannadigas can any time log in to it to know better Karnataka. He confirmed that his government is looking into all the grievances of Kannadigas worldwide and will be more than happy to address each and every issue one may have. While taking it forward into a complaint free state of India, he assured all assistance to the really required Indian Kannadigas in whatever issues they may have in the development of the Karnataka State.

Ronald Olivera concluded the evening with vote of thanks which was followed by sumptuous classic dinner hosted by Fortune Group of Hotels. Broadway Events headed by Joel Crasta supported both the KNRI-UAE main event & the Business Dinner event with sound, light and photographs professionally.

Also Read: CM inaugurates Karnataka NRI Forum-UAE; hails initiative of Kannadigas

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Yediyurappa govt scraps Shaadi Bhagya scheme, 34,000 applications still pending

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March 9,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 9: The BJP government in Karnataka on Monday scrapped the Shaadi Bhagya Scheme that was launched by Congress government in the state in 2013.

Under the scheme, Rs 50,000 was given to Muslim brides for marriage expenses after they submitted their Aadhar and BPL cards.

While the previous coalition government had allocated Rs 60 crore budget for the scheme, the BJP government decided to discontinue the scheme. Congress called the move by the state government as "anti-minority".

"They have launched a scheme for the majority community. I welcome that. But why are you discontinuing one scheme? It is a small scheme where marginalized people get a little help from the government," Congress MLA Rizwan Arshad told reporters.

"He (Karnataka Chief Minister) has wilfully reduced the money allotted to all the schemes," he added.

BJP MLA Basavana Gowda Patil Yantal welcomed the decision of the Karnataka Government to scrap the scheme.

"The minority does not need appeasement because equal citizenship needs to apply to all in this country. I wholeheartedly welcome this move by the Karnataka Government," Yantal told reporters.

"Should we not give the majority people anything in India? India not giving anything to the majority, is that secular? We have already given them Pakistan," he said.

The MLAs from the minority community in the state have demanded a meeting with the Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.

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Renukacharya targets Muslims, says will put them in their place

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January 21,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 21: Karnataka Chief Minister's political adviser MP Renukacharya has courted controversy yet again with his remarks targeting the Muslim community at a pro-CAA rally in Karnataka on Monday.

Addressing a rally in support of the new citizenship law, the BJP lawmaker accused Muslims of collecting weapons in mosques instead of praying. "There are few traitors who sit in a masjid and write fatwas. They collect weapons inside the mosque instead of praying. Is this why you want a Masjid," Renukacharya said on Monday.

Renukacharya said he won't hesitate to use the money allotted to Muslims for Hindus. "I will resort to such politics in my taluk where the money allotted for Muslims can be used for Hindus. I will put you [Muslims] in your place and show what politics is," said Renukacharya, who is a close aide of CM BS Yediyurappa.

This is not the first time a Karnataka BJP leader has made communal remarks targeting the minority community. Earlier, BJP MLA Somashekar Reddy had made controversial remarks at a pro-citizenship law protest in Ballari when he asked those opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act to think of the "consequences" if the majority community members hit the streets against them.

The MLA had said, "If you do any drama, then if 100 per cent people come, understand what will be your situation. Congress people are lying to you, believing them you are coming on streets. We are 80 per cent, you are 17 per cent, if we react, what will be your situation? Be careful," Reddy had said.

Following outrage, a case was filed against Somashekar Reddy for alleged provocative speech targeting those protesting against the amended citizenship law.

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Hatred has no space in this world!!! these cheap politicians must show thier ways by the electing public .else conflicts never end .....Spread Peace..

God is watching!!!!

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54 lakh households in Karnataka vulnerable to covid-19, finds ongoing survey

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May 27,2020

Bengaluru, May 27: A yet incomplete state-wide survey has revealed that there are over 53.99 lakh households vulnerable to the infection in Karnataka. The survey is being conducted by the government to find COVID-19 vulnerable population particularly with comorbidities and cases like SARI and ILI.

The survey, which is 67.16% complete so far, finds 1.37 lakh households across Karnataka have people with comorbid conditions, excluding a further 13,341 households with symptoms of Influenza Like Illness (ILI), Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and Covid-19.

Over 48 lakh households have senior citizens, who on account of their age are at highest risk of death from the disease.

Munish Moudgil, Director of the State COVID War Room, clarified that households could have multiple types of vulnerable people. According to the survey data (which is dated May 26), Kalaburagi and Bengaluru Urban have the highest cases of SARI, ILI with 1,902 households and 1,703 households respectively, although these numbers are likely to rise, as the survey is still incomplete in these districts.

A BBMP source said that 68% of the survey has been completed in the city, but the data has not been logged yet. The number of SARI/ILI cases is next highest in Shivamogga with 1,217 households, Mysuru with 1,200 and Davangere with 1,178.

The government regards SARI and ILI as indicators of coronavirus and on April 17, had passed an order instructing healthcare workers to test people with these conditions for the coronavirus. Consequently, 51 COVID-19 cases were discovered by testing people with these symptoms.

Belagavi, meantime, has reported the highest incidents of households with comorbid conditions with 12,427 identified so far, followed by Mandya with 9,289, Kalaburagi with 8,311, Shivamogga with 8,140 and Bengaluru Urban with 7,562. Importantly, 3,45,443 vulnerable people have been identified in Bengaluru Urban within 28.26% of data logged in so far.

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