Let street vendors grow as Businessmen: CM Kumaraswamy
‘Badavara Bandhu’ scheme launched
Bengaluru, November 22: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that as the government has introduced ‘Badavara Bandhu’ scheme to help the roadside vendors with interest-free micro financing facility, the vendors have to utilize it effectively and improve their living condition.
Inaugurating the ‘Badavara Bandhu’ scheme at Yeshwanthpur APMC Market, organized by the Cooperative Department here on Thursday, the CM said that the roadside vendors have dependent on private money lenders and they pay more interest. In order to protect them from exploitation, the government has introduced the scheme. Infosys chief Narayana Murthy and his friends had started their company with just Rs 10,000 and grew as one of the biggest companies in the world providing jobs to lakhs of youth. In the same way, the roadside vendors should save a part of their earnings and grow as businessmen, he said.
Don’t torture
Though the roadside vendors sweat-out since morning to evening, they could not live happily due to their meager earnings. So, the police and officials should not harass them for money. Instead, the officials should create a conducive atmosphere for the roadside vendors to continue their business, he said.
Deputy Chief Minister Dr. G. Parameshwar said that the state government has introduced the ‘Badavara Bandhu’ scheme to help the roadside vendors. The officials should make honest efforts in reaching the benefits of the scheme to the deserving people. In Madhugiri, a flower-vending woman, with her small savings, educated her son who cracked IAS. So, without developing inferiority complex, the street vendors should educate their children, he advised.
Under this scheme, financial assistance would be provided to 53,000 people in the first phase and gradually, the number would be increased. Neglecting the allegation of the Opposition party on the government, the coalition government would ensure good administration, he said.
Cooperative Minister Bandeppa Kashempur, MLAs K. Gopalaiah, Munirathna, Mayor Gangambike Mallikarjun, Principal secretary Dr. N. Nagambika Devi, BBMP members, Cooperative societies registrar MK Aiyappa and others were present.
Highlights
State has 4.5 lakh street vendors including 80,000 in Bengaluru. Initially, 53,000 street vendors are being given loans.
Each street vendor would get micro loan from Rs 2,000 to Rs 10,000.
The loan will be disbursed through the DCC bank, Rajajinagar Cooperative Bank, Visvesvaraya Cooperative Bank, Guru Raghavendra Cooperative Bank and other Cooperative banks.
The loan repayment period is three months and if they repaid the loan within three months, they would be eligible for getting fresh loans again. Moreover, the loan amount could be increased by 10 percent which means from Rs 10,000 to Rs 15000.
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Broken relationships don't automatically amount to abetment of suicide: SC
New Delhi (PTI): Broken relationships, while emotionally distressing, do not automatically amount to abetment of suicide in the absence of intention leading to the criminal offence, the Supreme Court on Friday said.
The observations came from a bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Ujjal Bhuyan in a judgement, which overturned the conviction of one Kamaruddin Dastagir Sanadi by the Karnataka High Court for the offences of cheating and abetment of suicide under the IPC.
"This is a case of a broken relationship, not criminal conduct," the judgment said.
Sanadi was initially charged under Sections 417 (cheating), 306 (abetment of suicide), and 376 (rape) of the IPC.
While the trial court acquitted him of all the charges, the Karnataka High Court, on the state's appeal, convicted him of cheating and abetment of suicide, sentencing him to five years imprisonment and imposing Rs 25,000 in fine.
According to the FIR registered at the mother's instance, her 21-year-old daughter was in love with the accused for the past eight years and died by suicide in August, 2007, after he refused to keep his promise to marry.
Writing a 17-page judgement, Justice Mithal analysed the two dying declarations of the woman and noted that neither was there any allegation of a physical relationship between the couple nor there was any intentional act leading to the suicide.
The judgement therefore underlined broken relationships were emotionally distressing, but did not automatically amount to criminal offences.
"Even in cases where the victim dies by suicide, which may be as a result of cruelty meted out to her, the courts have always held that discord and differences in domestic life are quite common in society and that the commission of such an offence largely depends upon the mental state of the victim," said the apex court.
The court further said, "Surely, until and unless some guilty intention on the part of the accused is established, it is ordinarily not possible to convict him for an offence under Section 306 IPC.”
The judgement said there was no evidence to suggest that the man instigated or provoked the woman to die by suicide and underscored a mere refusal to marry, even after a long relationship, did not constitute abetment.
