Kodagu flood victims get houses
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Minister for Housing V. Somanna inaugurating a house built for flood victims in Kodagu on Friday.
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The victims of 2018 floods in Kodagu who lost their houses had a reason to cheer on Friday. For, they got the houses exclusively constructed for them by the government.
In total, 162 houses – 140 in Gaalibeedu and 22 in Biligeri – were handed over by Minister for Housing V. Somanna on Friday.
Mr. Somanna said 660 houses had been handed over to the flood victims so far in three phases. They include 383 in Jambur, 80 in Madhenadu and 35 in Karnangeri. As many as 76 houses are under construction at K. Nidugade and they too will be handed over in the next two months, he added.
Spending on SC/ST welfare fails to reach even halfway mark
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The Social Welfare Department, which receives the largest share in the budgetary allocation, has not seen expenditure of even 50% of the allocated sum in the first nine months of the financial year 2020-21. The expenditure on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes welfare, by various departments routed through Social Welfare, has been 47.5% so far.
Of the total allocation to the SC special programme of ₹17,863.16 crore, the expenditure by the end of December was ₹8,431.59 crore (about 47%). With respect to Tribal Sub Plan, ₹3,722.49 crore was spent of the total allocation of ₹8,267.30 crore (about 48%). Owing to COVID-19, the State had reduced the total allocation by about 7.5%, from ₹27,699.52 crore to ₹25,616.83 crore. Of the total allocation, the department has an allocation of ₹3,106 crore, down from the original allocation of ₹3,988 crore. The rest of the amount i
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Mangaluru, 26 Jan 2021: The 72nd Republic Day celebration was held with patriotic fervour and sensational display of culture at Nehru Maidan here on Tuesday, January 26.
Dakshina Kannada district-in-charge minister Kota Srinivas Poojary hoisted the Indian tri-colour flag after receiving the guard of honor.
In his address, Kota Srinivas Poojary said, ‘As many as 43,939 beneficiaries have registered under Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana till 2020. The department of backward classes welfare has approved 19 sites for the construction of hostels for the students. For the year 2020-21, the government has released Rs 280 lac to provide basic facilities to the colonies of scheduled caste. Under the Rs 100 crore of town development scheme of the municipal body, as many as 137 works have been completed and five works have been stopped,’ said Poojary.
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Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi addressing a gathering after unfurling the National Flag in Raichur on Tuesday.
Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi unfurled the National Flag at the District Police Parade Grounds in Raichur on Tuesday to celebrate the 72nd Republic Day.
He said that India has produced a great Constitution which is considered to be one of the biggest in the world, and it was authentically implemented on January 26, 1950 as the country started functioning afresh after freedom from the British.
Remembering the sacrifices made by freedom fighters, Mr. Savadi, who is also district in-charge, said that Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Netaji Subhaschandra Bose contributed immensely to India getting Independence and thereafter, B.R. Ambedkar played a commendable role in formulating the Constitution. “And, now, we are all enjoying fundamental rights,” he said.
Kamalavva Kolkar, yet another victim of the flood in Kittur village in Haveri, said her house was damaged extensively in the calamity
HAVERI: It has been three months since the floods wreaked havoc with the lives of the people of several districts of Karnataka. Unfortunately, the lapse of time has done little to ease the pain of those who bore the brunt of the natural calamity.
As many as 13,500 families that suffered nature’s fury continue to wait for the first installment of the compensation due to them from the government.
The apathetic attitude of the state government towards the plight of the victims is illustrated by the fact that less than a tenth of the funds allocated to Karnataka under the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF) has been distributed – only Rs 3.2 crore of the Rs 35.5 crore corpus has been disbursed to victims in five districts, while those in eight other districts have not been compensated for their loss.