Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah-led Cupboard accepted the 5 ensures as assured by the Congress occasion within the run as much as the meeting elections though the modalities are but to be labored out.
The assurances, Siddaramaiah mentioned, can be fulfilled regardless of the monetary burden on the state coffers.
The chief minister added that the price of implementing the programmes would quantity to round Rs 50,000 crore every year.
“The Cupboard has given its approval to all of the ensures made by the Congress occasion. We’re figuring out the modalities and a authorities order can be handed on it quickly,” Siddaramaiah instructed reporters in Bengaluru.
ಸಚಿವ ಸಂಪುಟ ಸಭೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೈಗೊಂಡ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ನಿರ್ಣಯಗಳ ಘೋಷಣೆಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದಂತೆ ಆಯೋಜಿಸಿರುವ ಪತ್ರಿಕಾಗೋಷ್ಠಿಯ ನೇರಪ್ರಸಾರ.https://t.co/yCDtpD6Q5N
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The CM was flanked by his deputy D.Ok. Shivakumar and eight different leaders who have been inducted into the Cupboard though portfolios are but to be allotted.
Although there isn’t any readability on eligibility or date of implementation, Siddaramaiah mentioned that every one of those particulars might be labored out by the subsequent Cupboard assembly.
Within the run as much as the Might 10 polls, the Congress had introduced 5 ensures which embrace Rs 2,000 a month to every lady who heads a family, Rs 3,000 monetary help to unemployed graduates and Rs 1,500 for diploma holders. It additionally promised 200 items of free electrical energy, 10 kg of foodgrain for each member of BPL households and free public bus journey for girls.
Later within the day, the Congress authorities issued an order giving in precept approval to those schemes.
Siddaramaiah blamed the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) for the debt disaster within the nation and the state.
“When Dr Manmohan Singh was in energy, the overall debt of India from independence until 2014 was Rs 53 lakh crore. And since then our debt has elevated to Rs 155 lakh crore. Within the final 9 years, money owed have gone up by Rs 102 lakh crore,” he mentioned.
Siddaramaiah mentioned that the scenario in Karnataka was no totally different, because the state debt went up from Rs 2.4 lakh crore in 2018 to Rs 5.6 lakh as of March 2023. “This exhibits how badly they managed the state and the Centre.”
The CM added that Karnataka has misplaced out because of the fifteenth Finance Fee, calling it “injustice”. The state was entitled to get Rs 1 lakh crore as a part of central shares however the fifteenth Finance Fee had decreased it by virtually half, he defined.
He mentioned that elevating tax targets that are nonetheless with the state, can increase capital to fund the programmes.
“We’ll enhance the scale of the price range from Rs 3.1 lakh crore to Rs 3.25 lakh crore after we current the price range in July. It will give us extra Rs 15,000 crore. If we plug leakages in tax assortment and reduce down on wasteful expenditure, I don’t suppose it’s unattainable for us to boost Rs 50,000 crore for our schemes,” he mentioned, including that every one the ensures might be carried out with no monetary burden to the state.
The CM additionally mentioned that he has sought particulars to revive the Indira Canteen initiative that was discontinued underneath the Basavaraj Bommai-led authorities. The Indira Canteen was a subsidised meals enterprise meant to serve meals at very affordable charges to cater to the city poor.
Later, former chief minister and BJP chief Basavaraj Bommai mentioned that the brand new Congress authorities has failed the expectations of the individuals.
“The residents had excessive hopes on the result of the primary Cupboard assembly of the Congress authorities. … However Chief Minister Siddaramaiah disenchanted everybody. Solely the bulletins have been made, however no dates have been introduced for the implementation of the assure schemes,” he mentioned, including that his successor has no prior planning on methods to organize sources for the success of the assure schemes.
“The borrowing of each state went up because of the Covid pandemic. Siddaramaiah nonetheless talks because the Opposition chief,” he mentioned.
Karnataka stands second within the nation in GST assortment, Bommai mentioned. “The CM has given solely half info and hid the opposite half. I’m prepared to offer a full info within the Meeting.”
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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