Top Karnataka news developments today
The Hindu
Here are the key news developments inKarnatakato watch out for today.
1. Home Minister Araga Jnanendra is set to hold a high-level meeting with police officials on the issue of seizing and towing away wrongly parked vehicles. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommaion Sunday had announced that the Government will soon unveil a new vehicle towing policy, faced with criticism that parked vehicles were being towed away in an adhoc manner.
2. The Karnataka unit of BJP will today livestream Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on Aatmanirbhar economy by setting up giant screens in district and taluk centres and holding discussions around the theme. This is aimed at building tempo ahead of Assembly elections in Karnataka in 2023.
3. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai will hold a meeting with the M.R. Sreenivasmurthy Committee that has been constituted to study re-structuring of four RoadTransport Corporations (RTCs). The committee is likely to come out with recommendationsto make cash-strapped road transportation corporations financially self-sustainable.After the pandemic, the RTCs have suffered a loss of over Rs 4,500 crore.
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.