BUDGET: No new taxes; No rise in State sales taxes on petrol, diesel
March 8, 2021
Bengaluru: Faced with a mammoth financial challenge, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, who holds the Finance portfolio, presented the Karnataka Budget for the 2021-22 fiscal this morning at the Legislative Assembly.
His Budget speech
Karnataka Vikasa Patra 2021 began at 12.05 pm. Yediyurappa presented the eighth Budget in his political career and the third during his present term as the Chief Minister since July 2019. Before presenting the Budget, Yediyurappa visited Sri Raghavendraswamy Mutt at Seshadripuram and offered pujas.
As soon as the CM rose to present the Budget, Congress, under the leadership of former CM Siddharamaiah, disrupted the proceedings and staged a walkout and claimed that the Government had no “moral right” to present the Budget.
Question those who sold Vijaya Dairy, Somu tells scribes
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‘Committed to Visakha Ukku slogan’
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BJP State president Somu Veerraju and secretary S. Vishnuvardhan Reddy addressing the media in Anantapur on Monday.
‘Committed to Visakha Ukku slogan’
BJP State president Somu Veerraju on Monday criticised the TDP, the YSRCP and the Left parties in Andhra Pradesh for organising protests against the proposed disinvestment of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) and said that his party had no doubt in extending support to the ‘Visakha Ukku, Andhrula Hakku’ slogan.
While answering the queries pertaining to the Central government’s move to divest its stake in the VSP at a media conference here, a visibly irritated Mr. Veerraju asked the journalists to question ‘those parties who had sold the Vijaya Dairy, the pride of Andhra Pradesh.’
CORRIDORS OF POWER
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An apt expectation
It’s quite common that the electorate would have many expectations from the contestants, particularly those from the party in power, in any election, but Union Minister for Environment and Forest Prakash Javadekar thought the other way round recently, and said he too has an expectation from the electorate in the elections to the two MLC seats in the State.
Delivering a talk on the role of graduates at a meeting organised by BJP, he said the problem of invalid votes became a thing of the past with the introduction of electronic voting machines (EVMs). However, the election to Graduates’ constituencies in the Legislative Council would have only graduates as the electorate but, unfortunately, the election held with physical ballot papers would have invalid votes. It’s an issue that reflects on graduates badly. “That’s why I expect from the electorate for the March 14 polling that they give no scope for
By Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar
Twenty-first Century India is urbanizing at a massive scale. The country is expected to house half of its population in urban areas by the year 2040. Cities, especially the larger ones, have been placed at the centre of the economic growth strategies. However, the increasing pace of urbanisation in India has not been matched by adequate planning, governance and infrastructure development. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have further exposed the shortcomings of Indian cities in addressing urban densification and inadequate provision of urban basic services including drinking water and sanitation.
This pandemic has affected the urban poor more than anyone else. The engines of our economic growth have been derailed due to massive disruption in economic and related activities inflicted by this pandemic. Given the predominance of informal production and labour relations in the Indian cities, a cessation of all economic activity is bound to h
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‘More than ₹10,000 crore sanctioned to A.P. for urban development’
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Union Minister of Housing Hardeep Singh Puri speaking virtually from New Delhi to media persons at the BJP office in Visakhapatnam on Saturday. MP G.V.L. Narasimha Rao is seen.
‘More than ₹10,000 crore sanctioned to A.P. for urban development’
Andhra Pradesh had been sanctioned more than ₹10,000 crore under various schemes for urban development, Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri said on Saturday.
The Union Minister was addressing the media at the BJP office here virtually from New Delhi ahead of the municipal elections in the State.