KARNATAKA

State housing minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan proposed that theKarnataka Housing Board(KHB) consider constructing 1,000 villas on 500 acre of land available for the department on the outskirts of Bengaluru. The proposal was mooted at a review meeting of the board and housing department officials.

Justifying the reasons for proposing the villas, Khan has told the officials that Bengaluru has gained a lot of international reputation and a large number of industrialists and VVIPs come from abroad looking to stay in the city vicinity permanently.
It is said the proposal looks to construct 250 villas in all five directions of Bengaluru and as much as 10,000 sqft palatial houses can be offered for the purpose. He specified that the villas must be located amidst nature.

The announced a second COVID-19 relief package of 500 crore, largely for the unorganised sectors impacted by the lockdown imposed in the State since April 27.

Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said relief of 3,000 each would be given to power looms weavers, with a maximum of two workers per loom. Around 59,000 power looms are to benefit. Unorganised workers of the film and television Industry would get 3,000 each relief. This will benefit 22,000 registered workers, he said.

AsKarnatakais battling the second wave of the pandemic, chief minister BSYediyurappa announced a over Rs 1,250 crore financial package, to provide relief for those whose livelihood has been affected by Covid-19 inducedlockdown.

Despite that, as the current restrictions have affected the livelihood of those in unorganised sector and farmers, to mitigate its impact, we are announcing a relief programme of over Rs 1,250 crore.

He said Rs 2,000 each will be given to those under unorganised sector like barbers, washermen, tailor, ragpickers, household workers, cobblers, among others, benefiting 3.04 lakh people, and will cost about Rs 60.89 crore.

Roadside vendors, those registered under “Aatmanirbhar” package will be given Rs 2,000 each, he said adding that it will benefit about 2.20 lakh people and cost Rs 44 crore.
Also artists and art teams will be given Rs 3,000 each, benefiting 16,095 benificiers and will cost Rs 4.82 crore.

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday launched a scheme to door deliver basic revenue documents such as caste certificates, income certificates, and land records (RTCs).

After the launch of the programme at Chickballapur, the Chief Minister said, It is a pity that people, particularly farmers, have been made to run from pillar to post to get basic documents such as RTCs and other records. Under the programme, records would be delivered on the doorstep of people for free.

The Chief Minister said a sum of 1,050 crore had been set aside in the State Budget for the Raitha Shakthi programme which would help farmers having landholdings upto 5 acres as aid to purchase diesel and hire farm equipment.

The ordered notice to the State Government in a Public Interest Litigation seeking implementation of National e-Vidhan (NeVA) application in the state.

NeVA is a work-flow system developed by the Centre to enable smooth conduct of legislative proceedings and house business in a paperless manner. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale directed the government to submit its response by the next date of hearing.

The Central government sponsored scheme, NeVA, which envisages to cover all state assemblies has a total comprehensive outlay of Rs 674 crore as against Karnatakas scheme which covers only the states assembly and council with an outlay of Rs 254crore, the petitioner states.

Chief minister Basavaraj Bommai said, We are introducing the scheme Beyond Bengaluru, for shifting some industries to the NorthKarnataka(NK) region, which will help to create jobs for local youths.

He said the Union Government has formulated an ethanol policy, by keeping in mind the overall perspective of environmental protection, economic activity, and farmers welfare. Karnataka is on its path to getting the maximum benefit from it. Ethanol units have been set up in some sugar factories. A provision has been made for the production of ethanol from maize and paddy. Farmers can get a good price for their produce, when it is processed and value added to it.

Chief minister Basavaraj Bommai clarified that there was no proposal to merge Amul and Nandini brands and that Union cooperation minister Amit Shah’s statement was being misinterpreted.

There is no merger of brands. Amul will remain as Amul and Nandini will continue as Nandini. There was absolute clarity in his statement that Amul and Nandini can have an exchange of ideas that will help grow both the brands,” said Bommai.

The CM, however, said the only cooperation between the two brands proposed by Shah was an exchange of technical and Marketing models.

Founded as a not-for-profit Society in 2019, as an alternative to the National Informatics Centre (NIC), the Centre for Smart Governance (CSG) has made major headway into providing tech solutions to theKarnatakagovernment.

Once heavily dependent upon NIC, the technology firm which is run by the ministry of information technology, Karnataka found that the central agency was unable to scale up their manpower and provide quick solutions for the state administration.

So much so, that CSG has provided solutions to even Ponzi scheme repayments to investors, including the I-Monetary Advisory (IMA) and the Guru Raghavendra Co-operative Bank scam.
With a startup capital of Rs 10 crore, raised from various foundations and grants given by the government of India for specific projects, the company has been registered as a not-for-profit entity.

In fact, the Karnataka government has given the company a free reign to even approach other governments in adjoining states for their requirements and increase its own revenue generation.

Mangalore Universityand NorwaysUniversity of Agder(Grimstand) have signed a memorandum of understanding for mutual cooperation in any field related to Science and Technology.

This MoU will facilitate joint research projects in areas of mutual interest, including science and technology, social sciences, business administration and physical Education; exchange of academic publications and reports. It will facilitate the organisation of joint seminars, workshops, lectures, conferences, and faculty and student exchange programmes.