BengaluruJun 23, 2025 20:01 IST
First printed on: Jun 23, 2025 at 19:53 IST
-
Share
-
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will meet President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday looking for clearances for a number of Payments handed by the state legislature which are pending assent. Whereas a number of Payments are saved in abeyance by the Governor’s workplace, approval for others was delayed after the Governor reserved the Payments for the President’s consideration.
On his go to to Delhi, Siddaramaiah advised reporters in Raichur on Monday that plenty of Payments from Karnataka have been pending with the President. “I wished to speak about that. The President has given me an appointment,” he added.
Six Payments handed by the Congress-led state authorities – three every in 2024 and 2025 – are presently pending assent. Key amongst them is the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurement (Modification) Invoice, 2025, which was reserved for the President’s consideration in April this 12 months. The modification enacted within the latest finances session of the state legislature offered a 4 per cent reservation to the 2B class – Muslims – in authorities tenders beneath Rs 2 crore, and procurement of products and companies beneath Rs 1 crore. Amendments that present reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Different Backward Lessons in authorities tenders have been handed up to now.
Assent can also be withheld for the Karnataka Hindu Spiritual Establishments and Charitable Endowments (Modification) Invoice, 2024. Handed by the legislature final 12 months, it proposed a typical pool fund underneath the Hindu Spiritual Establishments and Charitable Endowments Division to enhance facilities at smaller temples, and supply insurance coverage cowl and dying reduction for monks, amongst others. The BJP had opposed the Invoice, which is but to obtain assent from the Governor.
The Karnataka (Mineral Rights and Mineral Bearing Land) Tax Invoice, 2024, which offered for the state to gather taxes for minerals based mostly on a Supreme Court docket choice, is among the many Payments pending because of the clarifications sought by the Governor from the federal government.
Siddaramaiah additionally stated that he had sought an appointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman relating to the extra memorandum submitted by the state authorities to the sixteenth Finance Fee. The state has sought a rise within the ratio of shares allotted to the state authorities, noting that Karnataka misplaced essentially the most on account of its decreased share in devolved taxes underneath fifteenth Finance Fee.
The chief minister is anticipated to petition Sitharaman over the problem throughout their assembly on Tuesday.