Government should revoke OTS scheme, says Velagapudi
The Hindu
‘It is only a ploy to harass the poor and earn some money to fund welfare schemes’
The State government should immediately revoke the OTS (one time settlement) scheme, as it is not only a ploy to harass the poor, but also to earn some money to fund its welfare schemes by training the guns on the poor, said Visakhapatnam (East) MLA Velagapudi Ramakrishna Babu from the Telugu Desam Party(TDP).
Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, he said that during the TDP rule about 80,000 pattas were given to the poor and the locking period of two years has been completed by 2018. But despite that the government is not registering the pattas and now it has floated the OTS scheme to make some money, he said.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.