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Several irrigation projects successful Karnataka person either stalled oregon slowed down owing to inaction by the Union government, said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah astatine Siraguppi colony successful Dharwad territory connected February 8.
He was speaking astatine the motorboat of respective improvement works successful Navalgund Assembly constituency, including a restraining partition to power floods successful Bennihalla. The lawsuit was organised by the Water Resources Department and Karnataka Irrigation Corporation Limited. The flood power infrastructure volition outgo an estimated ₹200 crore successful the archetypal phase. The Chief Minister launched astir 72 improvement works astatine the outgo of ₹150 crore.
“The 3rd signifier of the Krishna Upper River Project has been stalled by the Union government. We person urged the Union Ministers acrophobic to contented a gazette notification that tin alteration america to commencement work, but successful vain. Similarly, the Union authorities is yet to supply the indispensable clearances to the Kalasa Banduri Nala project. The Central Wildlife Board is yet to o.k. our application, though the different departments person issued clearances and the Supreme Court approved the task successful 2018. If each permissions are obtained, the enactment tin commencement time itself,” the Chief Minister said.
On the Mekedatu drinking h2o project, Mr. Siddarmaiah said the task involves the usage of 65 tmcft of water. But it is stuck arsenic the Union authorities is yet to wide the State’s proposals. The courts person already dismissed objections filed by Tamil Nadu, helium added.
“The Upper Bhadra River task was considered a task of nationalist value successful the Union Budget. The Centre promised to merchandise ₹5,300 crore for the same, but nary wealth has been released truthful far,’’ the Chief Minister pointed out.
“Some radical are going astir saying that the Karnataka authorities is not taking up improvement works arsenic it has exhausted resources connected warrant schemes. That is acold from the truth,” Mr. Siddaramaiah stated.
He added that respective improvement works are nether mode crossed the State. “For example, we person taken each indispensable steps to commencement enactment connected the Kalasa Banduri Nala project. Since the Supreme Court approved the project, we called and finalised tenders and fixed the agency. However, enactment is yet to statesman arsenic we person not received the indispensable clearances from the Union government,’’ the Chief Minister said, adding that “our authorities has spent astir ₹25,000 crore connected irrigation projects since coming to power’’.
He said that the Union authorities is collecting ₹4–5 lakh crore successful taxes from Karnataka, but is releasing grants of lone astir ₹60,000 crore. “We person raised our objections against this,’’ helium noted.
The Chief Minister criticised the BJP-led NDA authorities for introducing the VB-G RAM G strategy aft making respective changes to the MGNREGA Act. “For 2 decades, this strategy provided livelihood to agrarian folk, reduced distress migration to cities, and ended starvation deaths,” helium added.
A look astatine the beneficiary statistic of MGNREGA reveals that 53% of beneficiaries were women. Out of the full beneficiaries, 28% are from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes — 17% and 11%, respectively. “The payment strategy that aimed to supply jobs to the youth, women, and the unemployed has been abandoned. It is highly unfortunate. However, we volition not support quiet. We volition combat against this. We volition combat to re-establish the MGNREGA scheme,” Mr. Siddaramaiah stated.
He said helium is committed to making Navalgund a exemplary constituency. “Several improvement works person been launched successful the constituency. There are demands to physique an underground drainage strategy successful Annigeri town. It volition beryllium discussed earlier the Budget,” the Chief Minister noted, adding that the ₹200-crore flood prevention task was taken up astatine the insistence of N.H. Konaraddi, MLA.
Earlier, an estimated outgo study of ₹1,610 crore was submitted to the Union government. “But since the Centre delayed approvals, we decided to instrumentality up the archetypal signifier astatine a outgo of ₹200 crore. Due to the flash floods successful the stream, astir 37 villages and 20,000 hectares of onshore were flooded. This volition beryllium avoided by the restraining partition and different structures,’’ the Chief Minister said.
Mr. Siddaramaiah said helium is simply a believer successful Basavanna’s ideology of “inclusive and not othering”. We are moving a payment state. We person spent astir ₹1.16 lakh crore connected the 5 warrant schemes. About ₹54,000 crore is utilized annually for the warrant project. On an average, ₹4,000–5,000 is fixed to each household each month, oregon astir ₹50,000 per twelvemonth successful nonstop benefits, helium said.
Ministers H.K. Patil, Satish Jarkiholi, Santosh Lad, Prasad Abbayya, MLA, Salim Ahmed and F.H. Jakkappanavar, MLCs, leaders Shakir Sanadi and S.R. Patil, I.G. Sanadi, erstwhile MP, A.H. Hindasgeri, erstwhile Minister, Kusumavati Shivalli, erstwhile MLA, and others were present.
