Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s financial advisor Basavaraj Rayareddi has mentioned that vast allocations to the 5 ensures of the state authorities have made it troublesome to get funds for developmental works.
The Congress MLA from Yelburga in Koppal district was talking at a farmers’ assembly after launching work at a lake at Mangaluru village in his Meeting phase.
“The Chief Minister has made me his financial advisor, and as I work together with him day by day, this cash has come (for the lake venture), or else it wouldn’t have come…unimaginable. That is the one work that’s taking place in your entire state, as a result of ensures will itself end issues… Rs 60,000-Rs 65,000 crore we now have to spend for it (ensures). I understand how troublesome it’s, inside finance” Rayareddi mentioned.
Opposition BJP and JD(S) have been accusing the Congress authorities within the state of not taking over any developmental works, due to the massive spending to fulfil the guarantees promised by the party throughout the Meeting elections.
Reacting to Rayareddi’s claims, Deputy Chief Minister and state Congress President D Okay Shivakumar has mentioned “there aren’t any difficulties, we’re streamlining. We’ve got fulfilled our guarantees. We are going to proceed the assure schemes….” “..we didn’t usher in assure schemes for votes, it was with an intention to enhance the standard of lives of the folks, who had been struggling with worth rise. We’re assured that folks will cooperate with us,” Shivakumar mentioned.
Siddaramaiah has put aside Rs 52,009 crore for his authorities’s flagship 5 assure schemes within the present monetary 12 months.
The 5 assure schemes are: 200 items of free energy to all households (Gruha Jyoti), Rs 2,000 month-to-month help to the girl head of each household (Gruha Lakshmi), fee of money in lieu of the extra 5 kg of rice to each member of a BPL family (Anna Bhagya), Rs 3,000 each month for unemployed graduate youth and Rs 1,500 for diploma holders for 2 years (YuvaNidhi), and free journey for ladies in public transport buses (Shakti).