Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Jul 31: Karnataka chief minister (CM), H D Kumaraswamy, clarified that the government has waived farm loans totalling to Rs 49,000 crore in the state. He added that an official communication about this would be issued on behalf of the government within four to five days.
Speaking at the meeting of district deputy commissioners and zilla panchayat chief executive officers of the districts in the state at the conference hall of Vidhana Soudha here on Monday July 30, he said that the role of deputy commissioners is of utmost important in making the loan waiver programme a success.
He accordingly instructed the officials to maintain transparency in the matter of implementing the loan waiver scheme and to see that the benefit of the scheme reaches the eligible beneficiaries. He also asked them to appoint nodal agencies to identify the people who are genuinely eligible to get the benefits of this scheme.
The CM urged departmental officials to work more effectively to implement the schemes announced in the budget. He asked the district level officers to visit taluks every month, listen to the grievances of the people and dispose off pending files faster. He said he is aware how can tax pilferages can be plugged and blamed the media for publishing false stories claiming that tax collection has fallen by a thousand crore rupees and thus misguiding people.
The meeting decided to disburse compensation. The officials were asked to provide actual reasons behind the suicides by individual farmers and take steps to disburse compensation to families of farmers ending lives without delay.
The officials were told to supply water through tankers to mitigate drinking water shortage and to initiate steps to address drought situation faced by 12 districts. The other decisions including providing graveyards for scheduled castes and tribes, issuance of title deeds in 94 c and 94 cc cases without delay, appointment of surveyors to dispose of Podi cases, providing information about crops survey by mobile app, address problem of the process of formation of revenue villages, take steps to construct mini Vidhana Soudhas in 14 taluks, and complete construction of toilets in all districts as per target by October 2.