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Rs 2.4cr bill lands Karnataka governor in controversy

June 4, 2015 by Nasheman

Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

Bengaluru: Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala has landed himself in a controversy after an RTI query revealed excessive spending by him. The RTI reply shows that the Governor’s office had claimed Rs 2.3 crore for renovation and Rs 10 lakh more were spent on chartered flights for his official visits, sources said.

The bill says that Rs 40 lakh was spent on providing interiors in the Governor and his ADC’s chambers. This included wooden false ceiling, wooden wall paneling, glass doors among several others. Additional sum of Rs 30 lakh was spent on the interior works in the offices of Officer on Special Duty (OSD), private secretary and main lounge.

Alterations worth Rs 25 lakh were made in the telephone exchange, computer section, dispensary and university section in the Raj Bhavan.

Rs 35 lakh was also spent on asphalting internal roads and providing kerbs at the front. Another Rs 50 lakh were also spent on widening of pathway near the main building, alterations to laundry and dispensary.

The amount for renovating the kitchen, dining hall and bathroom of the Governor’s was billed at Rs 50 lakh.

Vala assumed office of the Governor on September 1, 2014. His appointment had been opposed by the Congress government in the state.

(Agencies)

Filed Under: India Tagged With: Karnataka, RTI, Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

Bill to trifurcate Bengaluru civic body introduced

April 20, 2015 by Nasheman

BBMP-BUILDING

Bengaluru: Amid stiff opposition from both BJP and JD(S), the Karnataka government today introduced a bill in the Assembly aimed to trifurcate Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the city civic body, after failing to get the Governor’s assent to an ordinance on the issue.

The Karnataka Municipal Corporations (Amendment) Bill, 2015, was introduced in the Assembly by Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T B Jayachandra during the one-day special session of the Karnataka legislature.

As the House met, BJP demanded that the issue of crop damage due to unseasonal rains and hail storms be taken up first.

Leader of the Opposition BJP Jagadish Shettar said the farmers issue due to crop damage should be taken on priority as they were on the verge of committing suicide in some parts. He also charged that Ministers and officials are not visiting affected areas and surveys were not being conducted properly. Relief work was also tardy, he said.

Both BJP and JD(S) members objected to the introduction of the bill, saying the matter was before the court and demanded ruling from the Speaker Kagodu Thimappa.

Thimmappa said the Assembly has the right to legislate, following which Jayachandra introduced the bill and said government’s sole intention is welfare of Bengaluru and its people.

JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy objecting to introduction of the bill questioned the intention behind it. “Does this have any vision?” he asked.

This lead to heated argument between opposition and treasury benches. Intervening, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the House has been convened for the specific purpose of discussing the bill and reminded BJP about how its leaders had advocated for dividing Bengaluru while in power.

He said BBMP is not functioning properly with lots of irregularities and works were not happening on schedule. BBMP had to be divided and decentralised to make it more effective.

(Agencies)

Filed Under: India Tagged With: Bangalore, Bengaluru, BJP, Deve Gowda, Janata Dal Secular, Trifurcation, Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

BBMP trifurcation will happen, says MLC D’Souza

April 17, 2015 by Nasheman

MLC D’Souza

Mangaluru/Bengaluru: The Karnataka state government has decided to convene an emergency session of the Legislative Assembly on April 20 to discuss and pass a Bill on the trifurcation of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).

Informing this to the press persons at the Congress Office, Mangaluru on Friday, April 17, MLC Ivan D’Souza said the BJP had only been playing blame game on the BBMP trifurcation issue for political gains despite the fact that it was the then BJP leader Suresh Kumar who had initially mulled for trifurcating the civic body.

“The BJP was happy with the decision back then. However, since we are planning to go ahead with the idea considering overall development of the BBMP and the Bengaluru residents, the BJP and the JD(S) have been opposing it,” he said.

Coming down heavily on JD(S) Supremo H D Devegowda’s move to direct his party functionaries to boycott the Assembly session, D’Souza said that it was against the principles of democracy.

Clearing the air that the move was a ploy to postpone conducting the BBMP elections, he said that the party was not fearing a loss as it had contested numerous elections in which it has enjoyed both success as well as failure. He opined that conducting elections for the BBMP Council will be a waste of time and money if the BBMP is trifurcated. Instead, the state government will supersede the existing BBMP. Hence, the trifurcation is a certainty.

(Agencies)

Filed Under: India Tagged With: Bangalore, Bengaluru, BJP, Deve Gowda, Janata Dal Secular, Trifurcation, Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

Karnataka state government drops ordinance on BBMP

April 13, 2015 by Nasheman

Vidhana Soudha

Bengaluru: Following a meeting with various ministers from Bengaluru, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has decided to drop it’s controversial ordinance for constituting three new municipal bodies in Bengaluru in place of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).

According to the media reports the ministerial panel has decided not to re-submit the controversial ordinance to the Governor but have decided to convince the court.

The ordinance sought to constitute three new local bodies in Bengaluru to replace the BBMP by amending the Karnataka Municipal Corporation Act.

The opposition parties including BJP and JD(S) opposed the bill stating the ordinance was aimed at delaying the polls to the civic body.

It is said that the Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala denied giving consent to the ordinance keeping in mind the upcoming BBMP elections.

A single judge bench of Karnataka High Court had ordered to hold BBMP polls before May 30. Now the government has filed a writ appeal against the order before a divisional bench.

(Agencies)

Filed Under: India Tagged With: Bangalore, Bengaluru, BJP, Deve Gowda, Janata Dal Secular, Trifurcation, Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

BJP appeals to governor not to clear proposed ordinance to trifurcate Bengaluru

April 9, 2015 by Nasheman

vidhana soudha

Bengaluru: Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today petitioned Governor Vajubhai Vala requesting him not to approve the proposed ordinance by the government to trifurcate the city and to advise it to hold Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) elections as directed by the High Court.

BJP leaders led by Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Assembly and Former Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka, former Ministers Suresh Kumar, Somanna and Arvind Limbavali among others, marched to the Raj Bhavan and submitted a memorandum to the Governor.

The JDS, led by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, also staged a protest in the city opposing the state government’s move to trifurcate Bengaluru City.

“We understand that the state government is contemplating trifurcation of Bangalore City by issuing an ordinance before the BBMP elections that are due after its dissolution on April 21. The Bangalore city BJP unit strongly condemns the state government’s cavalier approach and its unilateral decision to impose their writ against the wishes of people of Bangalore,” BJP in its memorandum said.

Flaying the ‘haste’ at which the state government was going about on the issue, BJP informed the Governor that the three member committee formed under the Chairmanship of B S Patil (former Chief Secretary) is yet to submit its final report but the state cabinet has approved the trifurcation after hurriedly obtaining an interim report from the panel.

Questioning the state cabinet’s decision to split BBMP into three corporations citing efficient administration and governance, the BJP said it was being done with an ulterior motive to postpone the BBMP elections scheduled for May.

The Karnataka High Court has passed orders to ensure that the BBMP polls are conducted before May 30, 2015, BJP in its memorandum said, adding, that the ordinance route was only aimed at creating legal hurdles for the elections.

(PTI)

Filed Under: India Tagged With: Bangalore, Bengaluru, BJP, Deve Gowda, Janata Dal Secular, Trifurcation, Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

Karnataka: Governor asks ruling and opposition to work together

February 3, 2015 by Nasheman

Vidhana Soudha

Bengaluru: With the Opposition BJP and JD(S) at loggerheads with the ruling Congress party over the Arkavathi Layout controversy and other issues, Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala has called upon the opposition and treasury benches to work together for the development of the State and the welfare of the people.

Addressing the joint session of the Karnataka Legislature, the Governor said the overall development of the State and the welfare of the people must be the main concern of all political parties.

Incidentally, Vala is the first Governor to address the joint session of the State legislature in Hindi, a move which has attracted widespread criticism from the pro-Kannada organisations.

However, copies of the Governor’s address were printed and made available by the Legislatutre Secretariat to the members as well as the media not only in Hindi but the State’s official language of Kannada as also in English.

In his 40-minute address running 24 pages, the Governor said the finances of the State have improved over the last year and said the State was well on its way to implementing the developmental programmes.

A sum of Rs 26,847 crore of commercial taxes had been collected up to November last year, which was 16.15 per cent higher than the achievement for the previous year for the same period.

The e-initiatives of the Commercial Taxes Department have made tax compliance by the tax-payer easier simpler and more transparent, he said.

A sum of Rs 8825 crore was the revenue earned by the Excise Department up to November 2014 with a growth of 8.43 per cent as compared to last year, the Governor said.

Vala noted various steps taken by the Government to tackle the various problems of Bengaluru City and said Bengaluru Metro Rail Project Phase I was targeted for completion this year.

The Governor said a state-widegeographic information system (GIS) would be established which would be available to all departments as an important and innovative governance tool in their day-to-day planning and monitoring of schemes.

“The Karnataka-GIS portal will be the first of its kind in the country,” the Governor said.

(Agencies)

Filed Under: India Tagged With: Karnataka, Siddaramaiah, Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala, Vidhana Soudha

Legislature session from today

February 2, 2015 by Nasheman

Vidhana Soudha

Bengaluru: The 10-day State legislature session is scheduled to commence on Monday with Governor Vajubhai Vala’s address to members of Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council in Vidhana Soudha at 12 noon.

Vala is likely to address the joint session in Hindi, giving insights into the achievements of the Congress government led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and its plans for the development of the State. It is Vala’s first address to joint session after he took over as Karnataka Governor in September last year.

The session is expected to be stormy as Opposition parties, the BJP and the JD(S), are likely to corner the government on various issues including deletion of valuable lands at Bangalore Development Authority’s (BDA) Arkavathi Layout, the controversial bill on taking over mutts and on the issue of revolt staged by Excise Minister Satish Jarkiholi recently.

The Chief Minister is learnt to have told AICC general secretary Digvijaya Singh that he would place the documents related to Arkavathi land denotification before both Houses of the legislature in his defence.

Apart from the Arkavathi issue, the non-payment of dues by sugar factories for cane supplied by growers is also bound to haunt the government during the legislature session as the promise by the Chief Minister and Sugar Minister H. S. Mahadev Prasad of ensuring that the factories paid half the dues by December 31, 2014, has failed to materialise.

Congress and Opposition expected to go at each other.

(Agencies)

Filed Under: India Tagged With: Karnataka, Siddaramaiah, Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala, Vidhana Soudha

Karnataka governor hails state welfare schemes on R-Day

January 27, 2015 by Nasheman

Governor Vajubhai R. Vala inspecting the ceremonial parade at 66th Republic Day celebrations at Manekshaw Parade Grounds, Bengaluru. Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy, The Hindu

Governor Vajubhai R. Vala inspecting the ceremonial parade at 66th Republic Day celebrations at Manekshaw Parade Grounds, Bengaluru. Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy, The Hindu

Bengaluru: Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala Monday lauded the Congress-led state government for launching many welfare schemes and public services like Mobile One project across the state on the occasion of 66th Republic Day.

In a brief address on this special occasion, Governor Vala hoisted the national flag and said that the state government has made remarkable progress in many fields, especially in public services, welfare and development schemes.

“The Mobile One project, launched to provide a number of services to the public, has accomplished a rare feat. Similarly, health scheme brought down infant mortality and the ‘Ksheera Baghya’ scheme, in which free milk is distributed among schoolchildren thrice a week, has reduced malnutrition among them,” he said.

The governor also commended the state government for implementing drinking water projects in drought-prone villages during this fiscal (2014-15).

“We have to strive hard to take our nation forward on the development path and to make the mantra — ‘Progress of Karnataka is for the country’s progress’ meaningful,” Vala said, urging the public to take a pledge for ensuring Swachh Bharat (clean India) through Swachh Karnataka (clean Karnataka).

Alluding to Swami Vivekananda’s words – You can give bread to a man and feed for a day but it is better to teach him to earn bread – Governor Vala exhorted the people to imbibe Vivekananda’s ideologoy.

Noting that Karnataka holds special significance in the country due to the strides it has made in the fields like software, biotech, aeronautics, defence, research, space and innovation, the governor said though people’s languages and attires vary from state to state, India has one identity.

“With this feeling (of oneness), we should rise above differences of religion, caste, colour and communities and march ahead on building the nation strong,” he noted.

Earlier, pomp and pageantry marked the Republic Day celebrations where the governor took salute during the parade amid tight security.

An air force helicopter showered rose petals at the podium, where Governor Vala, Chief Minister Siddarmaiah and other dignitaries were seated.

About 8,000 people, including children, who congregated on this occasion, cheered the services personnel and other participants during the march past and show of strength.

About 2,500 police personnel had been deployed for a fool-proof security.

Police across the city were also on high alert as part of the security drill with reinforcements at vital installations and in sensitive (VIP) areas.

About 40 closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras were installed in and around the venue to monitor movement of people, participants and dignitaries.

(IANS)

Filed Under: India Tagged With: Congress, Karnataka, Republic Day, Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

Karnataka governor vows to achieve saffronization; exhorts college girls to follow Israel

January 8, 2015 by Nasheman

Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

Mangaluru: The governor of Karnataka has an extreme likeness to the colour of his preference. Addressing a gathering at the inaugural ceremony of golden jubilee of Vivekananda Degree College and Vivekananda Pre-University College at Puttur, near here, Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala pledged to achieve ‘saffronization’ in the state. He said that ‘saffronization’ is nothing but way of Indian life.

Vala, who has his roots in the RSS, was handpicked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be governor of Congress-governed Karnataka, a state where Amit Shah led Bharatiya Janata Party intends to strengthen itself in the coming days.

Slamming the people who criticize ‘saffronization’, the governor said: “We proudly speak about saffronisation, will continue to do so, and achieve saffronisation as well.”

Vala said that convent education can introduce students only to the letters, science and technology, but it can’t impart culture – something that ancient Indian texts do.

The governor said that ancient scriptures have shown a way of life. If it was sought to be replicated now what was wrong in doing so, he asked.

The governor also asked girl students of the college to realize their self-belief and courage.

Praising Israeli girls for fighting against Palestinians, Vala lamented that Indian girls don’t do so. Great men in Indian history, from Shivaji to Gandhi, are remembered because of their mothers, he said.

Invoking Swami Vivekananda, Vala said his exhortation “Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached” was drawn from the Upanishads. “Swami Vivekananda, Dayananda Saraswati and other leaders held the saffron flag aloft and espoused Indianness,” he stated.

Filed Under: India Tagged With: BJP, Hindutva, Karnataka, RSS, Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala

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