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District Office Complex at Siddartha Layout on Bannur Road will soon house the Mysuru Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) Office. A meeting will be held with officials and district heads to move the present office to the new premises, said Mysuru District Minister S.T. Somashekar, who already has his office at the new Complex.
Interacting with reporters at Pathrakarthara Bhavan this morning, the Minister said that it was decided earlier that the office would be shifted after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides. “Now that the contagion has considerably reduced, the process of shifting the office will begin soon and I will call for a meeting and decide,” he said.
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
High Court notice to State on creation of caste corporations
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Govt. told to furnish notifications of setting up such boards The High Court of Karnataka on Thursday ordered issue of notice to the State government on a public interest litigation petition questioning constitutional validity of creation of separate development corporations in the name of Maratha, Brahmin, Veerashaiva-Lingayat, and Aryavysya.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice S. Vishwajith Shetty passed the order on the petition filed by the Karnataka State Backward Castes’ Federation and J. Srinivasan, a retired bureaucrat and founder president of the federation.