‘Grateful to CM for giving me Social Welfare’
The Hindu
Kota confident about effective implementation of welfare schemes
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has given me Social Welfare, a big portfolio, and I will effectively handle it, said the new Social Welfare and Backward Classes Welfare Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary here on Saturday. Talking to reporters, Mr. Poojary said he effectively discharged his duty as the Muzrai and Backward Classes Minister in B.S. Yediyurappa’s Cabinet. “Yes I am interested in Rural Development and Panchayat Raj. But I did not give any preference to the Chief Minister about the portfolio that I wanted. I am happy that Mr. Bommai has given an ordinary party worker like me to handle two important portfolios,” he said. Senior party leader K.S. Eshwarappa is more than capable of handling the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj portfolio, he added. Expressing confidence in effective implementation of welfare schemes in the two portfolios, Mr. Poojary said he will lend support to Sashikala Jolle in the handling of the Muzrai portfolio.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.
The Deputy Commissioner and the Election Officer for Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency M. P. Mullai Muhilan said here on Friday that over 600 staff will be involved in the counting of votes cast in the April 26 elections, at the counting centre at the National Institute of Technology – Karnataka, Surathkal, on June 4.