Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Aug 22: Addressing the people who had gathered at the launch of the Capital Market Services by Souharda Cooperatives here on Thursday August 21, chief minister B S Yeddyurappa assured that all the district headquarters in the state will have access to air transport within two years.

The government aims at building airports at all the district headquarters to ensure that the industrial growth in the state is well spread out in all areas without creating any regional imbalances. This will provide industries with an opportunity to start functioning in smaller cities and rural areas. This in affect will slow down the rate of migration of rural people to the bigger cities, he hoped.

Saying that his government aims at bringing a sea change in the rural scenario in the state within the next five years, the chief minister said, that he would appeal to the Kannadigas settled in the USA during the AKKA convention scheduled later this year, to adopt villages of their choice for developing them. He also said that the government was considering bringing amendments to the Karnataka Souharda Cooperatives Act to ease certain restrictions like the share of mandatory deposits needed to be remitted by Souharda cooperatives towards various reserve funds of the government.

Cooperatives minister Lakshman Savadi as well as Souharda United Cooperative Society president and MLC Manohar Maski too addressed the gathering.