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Rebate for plots for SCs, STs extended

Staff Reporter

Government issues two orders

BANGALORE: The Government on Monday issued an order extending a rebate in the price of industrial plots and sheds allotted to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs. Stating this in the Legislative Council, the Industries Minister, P.G.R. Sindhia, noted that the Congress member, L. Hanumanthaiah, had made the suggestion during the discussion on the demand for grants of his department. He had promised the member that Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs seeking sites and sheds would be given a rebate.

Accordingly, two Government Orders were issued today under which the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board would give a concession of not more than Rs. 5 lakhs or 40 per cent of the value of the land for such entrepreneurs.

Similarly, the Minister said, the Karnataka State Small Industries Development Corporation would offer a rebate of 40 per cent of the cost of the land or up to a maximum of Rs. 2 lakhs to such entrepreneurs.

Funds for hostels

Shobha Karandlaje (BJP) criticised the Social Welfare Minister, Y. Nagappa, for not raising the funds earmarked for building hostels and providing scholarship to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students in commensurate with their population.

She said the former Prime Minister late Indira Gandhi had directed the governments to increase the funds for the development of the downtrodden, whose population has gone up to be 22 per cent of the country's population.

Even the prime ministers who followed her have sounded the States about this.

Denying the charge made by her as also V.S. Ugrappa (Congress) that the funds meant for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribess have been diverted to other works, the Minister said it might have happened in the zilla panchayats. Dr. Nagappa told the M.P. Nadagouda and Basavaraj Bommai, (Janata Dal-U members), H.S. Shivashankar (Janata Dal-S) and Marithibbe Gowda (Congress) that the Government could not release Rs. 60 crores for the last four years for hostels and scholarships because of paucity of funds, as the State was reeling under drought.

The members protested and asked the Minister whether the Government has stopped buying new cars for Ministers and officers?

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