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Activists person demanded that the State authorities show its committedness to meaningful decentralisation by shifting immoderate of its important offices to the Suvarna Soudha successful Belagavi.
In a missive to the State government, subordinate of the North Karnataka Agitation Committee Ashok Pujari has warned that if specified measures are not initiated immediately, past an agitation volition beryllium launched.
“We volition person a symbolic one-day protestation successful beforehand of the Suvarna Soudha during the Winter Session successful Belagavi. If we bash not person immoderate factual assurance from the State government, we volition proceed our agitation and dispersed it to different districts,” helium said.
Suvarna Soudha present has 24 offices, including 1 State-level bureau of the Karnataka Textiles Infrastructure Development Corporation, 3 divisional offices and different territory offices.
The State authorities promised to commencement 2 State-level offices of the Information Commissioner and the Commissioner of Sugars. But they are yet to start, according to him.
“For decades, the State authorities has been promising the radical of North Karnataka that they volition payment from meaningful decentralisation. But it has not been fulfilled. We person been raising the request for shifting offices to Suvarna Soudha since the signifier of holding the Winter Session present began 2 decades ago. Governments of each parties person travel and gone successful this time. But nary authorities has taken america seriously. We volition proceed our agitation,” Mr. Pujari said.
He has been demanding the enactment of a Kittur Karnataka Development Board connected the lines of Kalyana Karnataka Region Development Board and assignment of an serviceman of the cadre of Secretary successful Belagavi.
“Successive governments person failed to recognize our request for decentralisation. All measures towards decentralisation person been symbolic and half-hearted,” says convenor of the cardinal committee of Kannada organisations Ashok Chandargi.
He said that they person been demanding the shifting of offices since 2012 but successful vain. “We met Chief Minister Siddaramaiah 5 times betwixt 2013 and 2018 and 2 times successful this contiguous term. Once we had a agelong treatment with the Chief Minister and different elder officers. Our demands for much schools successful borderline areas and further funds for Rajyotsava and Dasara were met but our demands for shifting of offices person not been fulfilled,” Mr. Chandargi said.
Among his demands are mounting up of a campy bureau of the Chief Minister’s office, with a elder serviceman to wide files and person nationalist grievances and an further Chief Secretary for North Karnataka.
Meanwhile, immoderate activists person revived the request for statehood for North Karnataka.
General caput of the North Karnataka Formation Agitation Committee Nagesh Golashetty has said that its members person launched a signature run to property for this demand.
Congress MLA Raju Kage has written to the Union authorities seeking the enactment of a caller North Karnataka State.
However, Legislative Council Chairman Basavaraj Horatti and MP Vishveshwar Hegde Kageri person dismissed the demand.
The State authorities besides faces allegations of neglecting the upkeep of the Winter Session venue, i.e., the Suvarna Souda.
A connection for ₹11 crore sought by officers to repair the Suvarna Soudha has not been approved by the State government. These works see roadworthy repair, drainage and h2o supply, plantation, renovating parts of the structure, including rebuilding oregon remodelling immoderate rooms and chambers, repair and replacement of doors, windows, furnishings and broad purified h2o proviso system.
The proposals submitted successful 2023 person not been cleared by the State government.
Suvarna Soudha was inaugurated successful 2012 astatine a outgo of ₹450 crore. Public Works Department officials instrumentality up attraction works earlier each Winter Session.
