Commission must be formed for development of N.Karnataka: Datta
'Alvas Nudisiri' Akhanda Karnataka Special lecture
Mangaluru: Funds getting released for the North Karnataka districts is at a very low level, as the funds in the state budget are not being distributed equally. There is a need to form a new commission for the development of the North Karnataka, opined YSV Datta.
He delivered a special lecture on Akhand Karnataka during Alvas Nudisiri in a seminar held at the Ratnakar Vedike in St. Shishunal Shareef Hall in Moodabidri.
If three hoblis of south Karnataka are joined, it will be equal to one hobli of North Karnataka. Consequently, North Karnataka is becoming a mirage during the budget allocation. The need to review this has become most significant that ever. Money should be adequately distributed to build Akhand Karnataka, he said.
North Karnataka has been cheated in wealth distribution. Deposits in the nationalized banks in the districts of North Karnataka are at the highest level. Belagavi has Rs. 13,350 crore, Dharwad Rs. 10,919 crore, Ballary Rs 7,280 crore, Uttar Kannada Rs. 6,200 crore, Gulbarga Rs. 5,444 crore, Bagalkot Rs. 4,265 crore, Raichur Rs. 3,229 crore, Haveri Rs. 2,300 crore, Bidar Rs. 2,000 crore, and Gadag has Rs. 2081 crore deposit. The cash flow of North Karnataka, except Vijayapura, Haveri, Koppal and Yadgir districts, is higher than the average cash flow of the state. While the 21.2 is of the state, it is 40 of the North Karnataka. Even after this, priority was not given for the North Karnataka in the budget, he said.
Alva's Nudisiri president Dr. Mallika S. Ghanti, Alva's Foundation Chairman Mohan Alva and others were present.
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Gujarat: Mevani demands collector’s suspension over ‘anti-Dalit’ remark; IAS officer rejects charge
Mahnisagar, Oct 30: Gujarat Congress MLA Jignesh Mevani on Wednesday demanded the suspension of Mahisagar District Collector Neha Kumari, accusing her of making anti-Dalit comments, a charge the bureaucrat rejected.
Mevani’s demand comes a week after he sought similar action against senior IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian for allegedly misbehaving with him and one of his party colleagues.
Mevani targeted Kumari citing a purported video in which she was heard saying that 90 per cent of cases registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, or the Atrocities Act, are used for blackmailing.
The IAS officer termed the lawmaker’s claims “baseless” and an unsuccessful attempt to get political mileage.
Mevani visited Lunawada, the district headquarters, and demanded that an FIR be registered against the collector under the Atrocities Act and that she was suspended over her “insensitive” remarks and “unparliamentary” words.
When one Vijay Parmar went to meet the collector with his grievance at the SWAGAT programme on October 23, she used “unparliamentary” words against him and also insulted the lawyer community by saying they should be “slapped with slippers”, the Vadgam MLA told reporters.
SWAGAT is an initiative of the Gujarat government for the redressal of people’s grievances.
According to Mevani, the collector’s claim that 90 per cent of cases under the Atrocities Act are misused for blackmailing is an insult to the SC and ST communities and amounts to an offence under the Atrocities Act and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
“We demand Kumari's suspension and that a case be registered against her,” he said.
The district collector called the MLA’s allegations a “political stunt”.
“The man whom the MLA called poor, innocent young friend (Vijay Parmar) has a police case against him, and his brother has more than one case of rape, kidnapping and assault against him,” Kumari said, adding that they keep visiting the collector’s office with grievances.
At the SWAGAT programme on October 23, he pressured the collector to file a case against police officers. When the collector told him that she did not have the power to file a case and that he should approach the superintendent of police (SP) or the court, he continued to pester her over his issue, she said.
He even threatened the officers and told the collector that she was a Brahmin and he would let her know what “section 4 of the Atrocities Act entailed”, she said.
“You can understand the direction in which this MLA wants to take law and order by keeping a person with a criminal history along with him even when the state government is sensitive about children and women,” she said.
The collector said that the way Vijay Parmar is “blackmailing” government employees in the name of the Atrocities Act is not at all right. “The MLA's support to such people makes it difficult for the real complainants and the real victims to get justice,” she said.
Last week, Congress leaders and Dalit community members gathered outside the office of the Director General of Police in the state capital Gandhinagar demanding the suspension of senior IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian over his alleged misbehaviour with Mevani and his party colleague.
