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Rs 300cr earmarked for developing over 300 SC/ST colonies'

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April 3, 2011
Udupi, April 3: Udupi District-in-charge Minister Dr VS Acharya on Sunday distributed keys of auto rickshaws to 34 beneficiaries of Koraga community chosen under the Integrated Tribal Development Programme, at a function held at Ambedkar Bhavan.

Under the programme, government finances Rs 80,000 for the purchase of auto rickshaws costing Rs 1.30 lakhs each, towards their economical empowerment through self employment. For the beneficiaries within the city jurisdiction Udupi CMC sponsored a seed money of Rs 20,000 each and for the beneficiaries outside the city limits, Syndicate Bank sponsored the seed money of Rs 20,000 each as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility. For the remaining Rs 30,000 they bought a loan from Syndicate Bank.

On the occasion 9 students of Koraga community were given cheques of Rs 10,000 each towards meeting the expenses of their higher education, eight beneficiaries were given cheques for meeting the electrification coast of their houses and 6 Koraga families got the first installment of funds for building the houses.

Speaking on the occasion Dr Acharya said that government has reserved Rs 300 crores for developing over 300 scheduled caste-scheduled tribe colonies as model hamlets. Each hamlet would be developed by spending Rs 50 lakhs to Rs 1.5 crores. Out of that Rs 50 crore would be utilized for the development of Koraga hamlets in DK and Udupi districts.

In his presidential address Udupi MLA K Raghupathi Bhat demanded the government to reserve certain jobs for the educated youth from the primitive tribal communities like Koraga or Jenu Kuruba.

Udupi district ITDP Officer Urmila said that the programme was aimed at confidence building, economic empowerment and providing social responsibility. She said that as per the action plan prepared by the Zilla Panchayath, during the coming academic year beneficiaries would get a grant for buying taxis.

Kaup MLA Lalaji R Mendon, Udupi CMC President Kiran Kumar, Deputy Commissioner incharge Prabhakar, Manager of Syndicate Bank Regional Office Hemanth Bhide, councilor Suresh Shetty and others were present.


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August 5,2020

Shivamogga, Aug 5: Karnataka Minister KS Eshwarappa on Wednesday hailed the laying of foundation stone (bhoomi pujan) for a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya and said "Kashi Vishwanath and "Krishna Janmasthan temples have to be liberated".

"It is a good day that the foundation stone for Ram Temple has been laid. A beautiful temple will come up, but there are Kashi Vishwanath and Krishna Janmasthan temples which have to be liberated," Eshwarappa said.

The minister said that there is a "sign of slavery" at Krishna temple in Mathura and Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi.

"The whole nation is dreaming of Shri Krishna temple in Mathura and Kashi Vishwanath temple. I have visited the two temples. 

There is a sign of slavery. Mosques are there at holy places. When I visited the place at Mathura, I witnessed the wall. When we look at the wall, we feel like we are still slaves," he said.

"While visiting Kashi, there is also a structure of slavery. Dream of Hindus is fulfilled in Ayodhya. One day, it will be fulfilled in Mathura and Kashi. Mathura Sri Krishna and Kashi Vishwanath will be freed and temple will be built," Eshwarappa added.

The Places of Worship Act, enacted in 1991, says that religious character of a place of worship existing on the August 15, 1947 shall continue to be the same as it existed on that day. The Act kept Ayodhya case out of its purview.

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May 13,2020

Bengaluru, May 13: Former chief minister and senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Wednesday called the measures announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as 'disastrous' and said it is 'non-existent' in terms of benefits to poor migrants, labourers, contract employees and farmers.

"The first set of measures announced by @FinMinIndia @nsitharaman, after 8 PM speech by @narendramodi, is disastrous & non-existent in terms of benefits to poor migrants, labourers, contract employees, farmers, etc," Siddaramaiah said in a tweet.

The Congress leader said most of the intended benefits may not reach the end recipient.

This comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a Rs 20 lakh crore special economic package to revive the COVID-19 hit economy.

"The contribution by the government for the schemes announced are mostly notional and less of actuals and the devil lies in the detail," the Congress leader said in another tweet.

After Sitharaman announced support measures for MSMEs, Siddaramaiah said, "The credit infusion to MSMEs may help them clear dues to vendors but it is doubtful if they shall utilise the credit available to pay their labourers & to prevent job cuts. @FinMinIndia should have taken measures to pay part of the salaries to the employees in MSMEs."

Further questioning the Centre on 'ignoring the spending for boosting consumption', Siddaramaiah said, "The government is interested in capital infusion in the form of credits but totally ignorant of the actual spending that needs to be done to boost consumption. How can credit be considered as government spending?"

Siddaramaiah said the next set of measures should benefit the marginalised sections.

"Will be looking forward to next set of measures & I hope it will be something to benefit the marginalised sections. Direct benefits to the poorest sections will help them survive this pandemic. COVID-19 fight should not be another perception battle but a real one," he added in another tweet.

Sitharaman earlier announced Rs 3 lakh crore collateral-free automatic loans for businesses, including MSMEs.

Besides this, she also stated that to provide stressed MSMEs with equity support, the government will facilitate the provision of Rs 20,000 crore as subordinate debt.

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June 4,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 4: The Special Investment Promotion Task Force, constituted by the Karnataka government, held its first meeting in Vidhana Soudha, Bengaluru on Wednesday, June 3.

The first meeting of the task force was held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary, Karnataka government.

The body is seeking to find ways to attract the disenchanted multi-national corporations (MNCs) which are looking to shift their manufacturing base away from China in the back-drop of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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