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Leader of the Opposition successful the Legislative Assembly R. Ashok alleged that the Congress is opposing the Centre’s agrarian employment warrant scheme, Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB–G RAM G), due to the fact that the Congress-led authorities successful Karnataka lacks the funds to lend its stock for the implementation of the programme.
Addressing a property league successful Mysuru connected January 11, Mr. Ashok said the Centre volition lend astir ₹17,000 crore annually to the scheme, portion the State volition beryllium required to lend astir ₹10,000 crore nether the 60:40 backing ratio. “The Congress is upset with the strategy due to the fact that the State government’s treasury is bare and it does not person the resources to conscionable its share,” helium alleged.
As grounds of the State’s fiscal distress, Mr. Ashok pointed to the government’s nonaccomplishment to disburse the Gruha Lakshmi assistance of ₹2,000 per period for 2 months — February and March 2025. He accused the State authorities of “looting” ₹5,000 crore from beneficiaries by skipping the payments for those months. “After the BJP exposed the contented successful the past league of the Legislature, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah himself admitted that the payments had not been made for 2 months,” helium said.
Mr. Ashok besides claimed that the Congress party’s absorption stemmed from the transparency built into the caller scheme. He alleged that nether the earlier agrarian employment programme, funds were siphoned disconnected by owners of world movers and excavators successful collusion with Congress workers, depriving mediocre agrarian labourers of their rightful wages.
The Congress fears that its workers volition go “unemployed” nether the caller scheme, which volition beryllium implemented done biometric authorisation, helium said, adding, “Fake names cannot beryllium included, each enactment volition beryllium monitored done outer systems, and bogus occupation cards volition beryllium cancelled.”
He added that the caller strategy volition summation guaranteed employment for agrarian workers to 125 days from the earlier 100 days. A 60-day gap, helium said, has been provided to guarantee the availability of workplace labour for cultivation operations.
Responding to the Congress party’s disapproval implicit the removal of Mahatma Gandhi’s sanction from the scheme, Mr. Ashok said the caller sanction includes “Bharat”, for which Gandhi himself had striven. He added that the BJP-led authorities astatine the Centre has moved distant from naming schemes aft personalities.
Ballari firing
On the firing incidental successful Ballari, Mr. Ashok said the party’s State halfway committee has decided to clasp a normal determination connected January 17 to protestation the illness of instrumentality and bid and the alleged effort to termination an MLA by opening occurrence connected his house. Similar protests volition beryllium held successful Bengaluru and Mysuru implicit the Kogilu contented and the cause menace, respectively, helium added.
