Contract-based civic workers also can get Healthcards: Deputy CM Dr. G. Parameshwar
Bengaluru: Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru Urban Development Minister Dr G Parameshwar has assured that the government would take measures to provide healthcards and other government facilities to the contract-based civic workers.
He was speaking to the media after conveying a meeting with contract-based paurakarmikas union at Sadashiva Nagar BDA Quarters.
The DCM has instructed the authorities concerned to provide healthcards to the labours.
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Senior Congress MLA, former Minister Shamanuru Shivashankarappa passes away
Bengaluru (PTI): Veteran Congress leader Shamanuru Shivashankarappa passed away at a private hospital here on Sunday due to age-related ailments, official sources said.
He was 95 and represented the Davanagere South Assembly constituency. He had been undergoing treatment at the hospital for some time.
Shivashankarappa is survived by three sons, including S S Mallikarjun, Karnataka Minister for Mines and Geology and Horticulture, and four daughters.
His daughter-in-law, Prabha Mallikarjun, is the Member of Parliament from Davanagere.
A former minister, Shivashankarappa, served as treasurer of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) for several decades and was the president of the All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha, the apex body of the influential Veerashaiva-Lingayat community.
He was also a noted educationist who established several educational institutions and was an industrialist.
