From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, Feb 6: Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Saturday said the State Government was committed to ensure that the decentralized plan programmes and development committee functioned efficiently in order to ensure that the benefits of the developmental programmes reached the people for their welfare.

Presiding over a meeting of the State Decentralised Plan Programme and Development Committee meeting held at his home office of Krishna, he said the goal of the government’s developmental programmes was to ensure the benefits reached a larger section of the people.

The meeting of the State Decentralised Plan Programme and Development Committee on the plan programmes is being held for the first time in the last four years. The meeting should be compulsorily held twice year, he told the officials.

He said the State Government had laid out a detailed set of guidelines for strengthening the decentralized plan process last year itself. The guidelines must be mandatorily followed by the Panchayat Raj institutions and other urban local bodies and implemented effectively, he said.

The Chief Minister asked the officials to ensure that the panchayat raj institutions as well as the urban local bodies and other state level bodies prepared and implemented plan programmes based on the local needs and the demands of the local people from the grass roots level.

Responding to suggestions given at the meeting, the Chief Minister said the Tahsildars would be made members of the Taluk level plan development committees. Demands for including specific programmes would be considered and taken up further based on the State’s financial position, he said.

Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister K S Eshwarappa, Animal Husbandry Minister Prabhu Chavan, State Decentralised Plan Programme and Development Committee Vice President Pramod Hegde and other members of the Committee as well as Planning Department Additional Chief Secretary Dr Shalini Rajneesh, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department Additional Chief Secretary L K Atique, Secretary Uma Mahadevan and other senior officials attended the meeting.

Book on Lal Bagh released

The Chief Minister earlier released a research book by V R Thiruvadi on ‘Lal Bagh-Sultan’s Garden to Public Park’.

Noted environmentalist and Bengaluru Environment Trust Chairman Yellappa Reddy, Bengaluru South BJP Raitha Morcha Secretary V M Vidya, Trust Members Maya Chandra and Nirmala Gowda and Udaya Kumar Kollimath of Art of Living were present.