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Getting down to enactment connected the archetypal time aft taking oath, Karnataka’s caller Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar connected Thursday held a gathering with elder officials and announced that his authorities volition acceptable up 2 exclusive secretariats, 1 for addressing nationalist grievances and different to grip issues related to NRIs.
Briefing presspersons aft a gathering with top-ranking officials including those from the constabulary and the Forest Department, Mr. Shivakumar said the projected secretariat for handling nationalist grievances would beryllium headed by a Minister.
This volition chiefly look into the demands of organisations and associations that signifier protests. The secretariat volition clasp meetings with representatives of protesting organisations, analyse if their demands were justified and look into addressing them.
NRI investments
The Chief Minister besides stated that different exclusive secretariat would beryllium acceptable up to look into issues related to NRIs. Appropriate changes would besides beryllium made to applicable laws to facilitate NRIs to put successful Karnataka, helium said.
Asserting that his authorities would not output to immoderate caste and spiritual influences oregon pressure, helium asked the bureaucracy to enactment towards delivering bully governance by responding to the aspirations and problems of people.
He called upon officials not to output to unit from immoderate quarter. “I privation you not to spell retired of the ineligible model by yielding to pressure. Work successful a transparent mode and arsenic per your conscience,” helium said.
He directed the territory in-charge Secretaries to taxable proposals wrong 25 days connected the works that could beryllium taken up successful their districts wrong the disposable fiscal resources. He asked them to instrumentality up regular visits not lone to territory headquarters, but besides to each taluks coming nether districts assigned to them.
He directed each authorities departments to travel retired with an enactment program wrong 15 days connected programmes that person to beryllium taken up including those that person been listed successful the State Budget.
‘Misuse’ of scheme
Referring to queries related to postulation of details connected consumers who are beneficiaries of escaped powerfulness proviso nether the Gruha Jyothi scheme, Mr. Shivakumar said determination were complaints that immoderate consumers were misusing escaped powerfulness proviso for commercialized purposes. Similarly, immoderate of them had aggregate energy meters successful their names. Hence information was being collected successful this respect to assistance streamline the scheme, helium noted.
