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Eleven Congress MLCs person written to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who besides holds the Finance portfolio, urging him to property the Centre for the merchandise of pending dues amounting to ₹2,100 crore nether the 15th Finance Commission for 5,950 gram panchayats successful Karnataka.
The legislators — Dinesh Gooli Gowda, Saleem Ahmed, Manjunath Bhandari, S. Ravi, Anil Kumar, Channaraj Hattiholi, D. Thimmaiah, Sharanagouda Bayyapura, Bheemarao Patil, Sunil Gowda Patil and Rajendra Rajanna — person requested the Chief Minister to instrumentality contiguous steps to guarantee the aboriginal merchandise of funds to the gram panchayats. They pointed retired that the State has not received the archetypal instalment of ₹1,092 crore.
In their letter, the MLCs said the hold successful releasing funds nether the 15th Finance Commission was weakening the precise thought of “gram swarajya” and hindering improvement activities successful agrarian areas. While States specified arsenic Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal person already received their allocations, Karnataka is inactive waiting, they noted.
With the word of elected gram panchayat representatives ending successful February 2026, the legislators expressed interest that determination is hardly a period and a fractional near to utilise the funds. Karnataka has astir 92,000 gram panchayat members, and if the grants are not released soon, galore indispensable works volition stay incomplete, they warned.
