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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah connected Tuesday presented a five-point charter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi successful New Delhi, highlighting the State’s concerns implicit the sugarcane pricing situation and long-pending irrigation task clearances, adjacent arsenic helium sought Central enactment connected a wider acceptable of developmental and fiscal demands.
Highlighting the caller unrest among sugarcane farmers, the Chief Minister conveyed that the State had enactment successful spot an interim statement mandating an further outgo of ₹100 per tonne of sugarcane, with the authorities itself sharing ₹50 of this burden. Terming the statement a stop-gap solution, the memorandum argued that the halfway issues laic with the Centre.
The State urged the Prime Minister to revise the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for sweetener — fixed astatine ₹31 per kg for respective years — and to guarantee assured offtake of ethanol from Karnataka’s distilleries. A Central notification enabling States to hole harvesting and proscription costs was besides sought arsenic portion of a sustainable pricing framework.
Irrigation projects
Mr. Siddaramaiah pressed for urgent involution to interruption the deadlock connected aggregate large h2o projects, respective of which person been awaiting Central support for years. These included Mekedatu, Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal-II, Upper Bhadra and Kalasa–Banduri.
While helium requested that the Centre nonstop the Central Water Commission to expedite clearance for the projected balancing reservoir connected the Cauvery, helium sought an contiguous gazette notification of the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal’s award, pending for implicit a decade.
Reminding the Prime Minister of the ₹5,300 crore assistance announced successful the 2023–24 Union Budget for the Upper Bhadra project, helium urged urgent merchandise of the allocation. Besides, helium besides sought wood and wildlife clearances from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change for the drinking h2o projects intended for the Hubballi–Dharwad region.
AIIMS request
The Chief Minister made a beardown lawsuit for mounting up an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) successful Raichur, an aspirational territory successful the Kalyana Karnataka region. A abstracted memorandum submitted successful this respect described the portion arsenic having “sub-par” wellness and acquisition indicators and a precocious populace of SC/ST and backward classes, making it a “dire need” of a high-quality Referral Medical Centre.
It was highlighted that the State has already submitted a elaborate task report, identified land, and established a authorities aesculapian assemblage successful Raichur to make a basal ecosystem for the nationalist institute. The AIIMS is expected to service aggregate districts and catalyse socio-economic development.
Jal Jeevan Mission
A important constituent of treatment was the alleged fiscal shortfall successful the Centre’s stock for the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). The State claimed that portion it had achieved implicit 86% functional household pat connections, the cardinal authorities had a cumulative abbreviated merchandise of ₹13,004.63 crore up to 2025-26. The memorandum stated that for the existent fiscal twelvemonth (2025-26), nary cardinal funds had been released, portion Karnataka had already precocious ₹1,500 crore from its ain fund to forestall enactment stoppages. Bills worthy ₹1,700 crore were pending, with different ₹ 2,600 crore successful the pipeline, prompting an urgent petition for the merchandise of equilibrium funds, the memorandum stated.
Flood relief
On catastrophe relief, Mr. Siddaramaiah sought ₹2,136 crore nether the National Disaster Response Fund for harm caused by this year’s unprecedented rains, which affected 19 lakh farmers and damaged crops connected 14.5 lakh hectares.
The Chief Minister expressed anticipation that the Centre would widen enactment connected some contiguous concerns and long-pending structural issues affecting the State.
