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No family should live in a hut, says Yeddyurappa

Staff Correspondent

‘Project ready to provide ‘pucca' houses to the poor'

Government plans to hold global meet on agriculture in June
Rs. 500 crore is said to have been granted
for Upper Bhadra Project

Dharmapura (Chitradurga district): Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has said that he wants to transform Karnataka into a State without huts.

Speaking at a public gathering here on Tuesday, Mr. Yeddyurappa said that his Government had prepared a comprehensive project to provide ‘pucca' houses to poor people. “I don't want to see a single family in the State living in a hut. Everyone should have a permanent roof over their heads,” he said.

He promised that he would visit Dharmapura after the zilla and taluk panchayat elections and draw up plans to convert the localities of the Golla community into revenue villages. Stating that his Government was contemplating conducting a global meet on agriculture in June next year, he said the objective of the meet was to give a fillip to the agricultural sector by introducing new methods and providing infrastructure such as cold storage units and better marketing facilities.

“We have successfully organised the global investors' meet and, on the same lines, we want to hold a meet on agriculture,” he said. Without mentioning the names of the suspended independent MLAs D. Sudhakar and Gulihatti Shekhar, the Chief Minister alleged that they were hindering the progress of the district. A decision had been taken to complete the Upper Bhadra Project, which was aimed at providing irrigation facility to at least one lakh acres of land in Hiriyur taluk.

The Government had granted Rs. 500 crore for the project. Of this, Rs. 250 crore had already been spent. .

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