Bangalore: 'Entire Administration from CM's Office to GP Under Sakala'

From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore

Bangalore, May 9: The entire administrative machinery of Karnataka from the Chief Minister’s office to the Gram Panchayat level will come under the ambit of Sakala within two months, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said on Wednesday.

Addressing a function after inaugurating ''Kandaya Bhavan,” which houses all Revenue offices under one roof, he said about 10 lakh applications had been disposed off under Sakala, the guarantee of government services , within a month of it being extended throughout the State.

More than half the applications related to the Revenue Department and 99.79 per cent of them had been disposed of, he said.

The implementation of the scheme had brought honour to the Government, since it is not targeted for a section but helped the entire population of 6.5 crore people of Karnataka.

The Government’s focus is on introducing transparency, easy access to services and building links between officialdom, people’s representatives and citizenry, for which Sakala scheme – that promises time-bound services – is an important step, he said.

He  sought to underplay the letter written by him and State BJP President K S Eshwarappa to party national president Nitin Gadkari complaining that former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa’s loyalists were indulging in anti-party activities as ''an old issue.”

“There is nothing out of the ordinary about writing to the party’s central leadership,” he said.

He said that the letter was written more than three months ago and there was no effort to keep it under wraps.

It was reported in a section of the press on Monday that  Gowda and Eshwarappa had in a joint letter complained that six ministers – Shobha Karandlaje, M P Renukacharya, Murugesh R Nirani, Basavaraj Bommai, C M Udasi and V Somanna – had worked against the interests of the party.