Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday stated the federal government has determined to present particular grants to Kannada medium colleges in Maharashtra and likewise pension to Kannadigas within the neighbouring State who fought for the unification of the State. His assertion comes a day after Eknath Shinde authorities in Maharashtra appointed two ministers to coordinate with the authorized group concerning the court docket case on the decades-old border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Shinde additionally introduced that the pension scheme for freedom fighters will cowl these elements in Belagavi in Karnataka to which the western state Maharashtra stakes declare to. He added his authorities was optimistic about extending advantages of the Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Jan Arogya Yojana (MJPJAY) to folks dwelling in these areas.
The MJPJAY is a flagship medical insurance scheme of Authorities of Maharashtra. It offers cashless high quality medical care to beneficiaries beneath the scheme for catastrophic sicknesses requiring hospitalisation for surgical procedures and therapies beneath recognized specialty companies by way of community of well being care suppliers.
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Bommai stated: “At present our authorities has determined to present particular grants for the event of Kannada medium colleges in Maharashtra by way of Border Improvement Authority.”
“Additionally, our authorities has determined to present pension to these Kannadigas in Maharashtra who fought for the unification (of Karnataka), took half within the freedom wrestle of India in addition to Goa ‘Vimochan’ agitation after verifying all their paperwork. We’ll implement this,” he stated.
The Karnataka Chief Minister additionally stated that defending the pursuits of a lot of Kannadigas residing in Maharashtra is the responsibility of the State authorities. Bommai additionally cautioned his Maharashtra counterpart Eknath Shinde towards making a row between the 2 states, that are in concord. “I wish to inform the Maharashtra Chief Minister and the federal government to not create a row between states when there are harmonious relations, once we are treating everybody equally no matter their language,” the Karnataka Chief Minister stated.
He claimed that the Panchayats in Jath Taluka in Maharashtra had handed a decision prior to now to merge with Karnataka when there was a extreme drought scenario and acute consuming water disaster, and his authorities has developed schemes to assist them by offering water. The state authorities is severely contemplating it.
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Bommai on Monday stated he has fashioned a formidable authorized group of senior legal professionals from Supreme Court docket and Karnataka to cope with the border row case when it comes up earlier than the apex court docket. “The border dispute is a political software utilized by all events in Maharashtra. However they are going to by no means succeed,” he stated, including that Maharashtra’s plea has not discovered maintainability in all these years and Karnataka is ready to argue that it is not maintainable.
Bommai had additionally stated that there isn’t any instance to indicate that what had been completed beneath the States Reorganisation Act was reviewed. Belagavi bordering Maharashtra has a big inhabitants of Marathi-speaking folks, and had for many years been a bone of competition between the 2 States.