Basavaraj S. Horatti

BANGALORE: The Cabinet, which was to take a decision on the long pending demand of the 17,000 daily wage/monthly rated employees in various departments, postponed it as there were some legal hitches to be cleared.

Disclosing this at a Cabinet briefing here on Thursday, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Basavaraj S. Horatti said that the issue was referred to a Cabinet Sub Committee, headed by Law and Home Minister M.P. Prakash.

Mr. Horatti said that only around 200 of them could be absorbed into service, if the Government implemented the Supreme Court judgment on their petition and had to terminate the services of many others.

The committee would study all the technical and legal hurdles and place its report for the approval of the Cabinet.

The Cabinet decided to take up rehabilitation measures for the families whose land was being submerged in the backwaters of the Hipparagi Barage in Bijapur district, at a cost of Rs. 555 crore. Under the programme, the families in 21 villages would be shifted completely.

The families in five other villages would be partially shifted. A Rs. 600-crore project to take up rural development under the Suvarna Gramodaya Scheme with the assistance of the International Development Agency in 39 most backward taluks was approved by the Cabinet.

This would be implemented over six years. A Rs. 5.47-crore sewage system for Nagamangala taluk in Mandya district and a Rs. 6.78-crore sewage system for Chamarajanagar and Gundlupet were also approved.

He said it had decided to stand guarantee for the Krishna Bhagya Jala Nigam to raise a loan of Rs. 50 crore at 8.35 per cent interest from the Bank of Baroda.

It would be utilised for irrigation projects.

He said Rs. 471 crore would be earmarked for implementing the Upper Bhadra irrigation project modernisation scheme as recommended by the K.C. Reddy Committee.

The Cabinet had approved a proposal to release Rs. 9 crore towards arrears to be paid for the work of digging borewells under the Ganga Kalyan Scheme for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes. Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation had been permitted to borrow Rs. 95 crore from commercial banks to purchase 500 buses. The buses would operate in Gulbarga and Hubli divisions, he said.

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