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Staying in villages will not achieve much: Moily

Staff Correspondent

`Kumaraswamy should instead make officials active'

M. Veerappa Moily

DHARWAD: Instead of staying overnight in villages, the Chief Minister should make Government officials and employees discharge their duties honestly, former Chief Minister and Chairman of Central Administrative Reforms Commission M. Veerappa Moily has said.

Addressing presspersons after inaugurating the sixth State-level Sociological conference at Karnatak University here on Saturday, Mr. Moily said the Chief Minister would not be achieving anything staying in villages. It is not enough if the Chief Minister alone becomes active. He should make the government officials also active, he said.

"Let the Chief Minister stay overnight in as many villages as possible. But it should at least lead to the development of those villages," Mr. Moily said.

The S.M. Krishna Government had brought into practice 50 per cent of the recommendations of the State Administrative Reforms Commission and Revenue Reforms Commission, he said.

The present coalition government should take steps to implement the remaining recommendations, which would get the State additional revenue to the tune of Rs. 6,000 crore.

The former Chief Minister criticised the way the coalition Government was functioning.

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