Chief Minister Kumaraswamy kicks off Kayaka Scheme
Belagavi, Dec 20: “The government would take measures to reach the benefits of interest-free micro loan under the Badavara Bandhu scheme to total 4.5 lakh street vendors families in the state. In the same way, the government is mulling to purchase products prepared by women associations under Kayaka Scheme”, said Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy.
Inaugurating the Kayaka Scheme and distributing the cheques to the beneficiaries under Badavara Bandhu scheme, organized by the Cooperative Department at Dharmanatha Bhavan here on Thursday, the CM said that training would be given to the women associations to prepare various products and marketing them under the Kayaka scheme. A decision would be taken shortly to purchase such products from the government to help those women associations, he added.
The poor people have been suffering due to loans. To help those families, the government has implemented Badavara Bandhu and Kayaka scheme. In coming days, many schemes of such nature would be implemented for the benefit of the poor, he said.
Farmers are being misled
The government has a big challenge of waiving of over Rs 46,000 crore loans. Unfortunately, some people have been misleading the farmers who should not be carried away by such false propaganda, he said appealing the farmers to have faith on him.
Under the loan waiver scheme, 12 districts in Belagavi and Kalaburgi division in North Karnataka would get the benefit of waiver of loans to the tune of Rs 29,000 crore. Even then, some vested interests have been trying to create an issue that the government was neglecting the North Karnataka. There was no reason to neglect North Karnataka as he does not have such discrimination like North Karnataka or South Karnataka. There was no need to get panic as the government was committed to protect the interests of the poor and farmers, he said.
Farmers loan waiver scheme was a model to the entire country due to which officials of other states including the central government were getting information and coming to the state for the study. In order to alleviate the farmers from loans, the government was planning a different and innovative farming system, but it would require some time. Since he was not in favour of any caste or religion, he wanted to develop the state as a model state in the country, he declared.
Kayaka Scheme
Cooperative Minister Bandeppa Kashempur said that as per Basavanna’s words ‘Work is worship’, the main objective of the project was to empower the working class. Kayaka scheme was a model in the entire country as the government would give interest-free loans up to Rs 5 lakh. The government was also planning to come out with a scheme to ensure marketing facility to the products prepared by the women associations, he said.
Tourism Minister SR Mahesh, Minor Industries Minister Srinivas, Animal Husbandry Minister Venkatarao Nadagouda, MLA Balakrishna, Mayor Basappa Chikkaladinni, Bagalkot DCC Bank president and former minister Ajay Kumar Sarnaik and others were present on the occasion.
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Iran warns of ‘uncontrollable consequences’ after energy site strike
Qatar warns residents of ‘Elavated’ threat
Tehran/Doha: Iran’s President Massoud Pezeshkian has warned that attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure could lead to “uncontrollable consequences” affecting the entire world.
In a post on X, Pezeshkian said he “strongly condemns” the strikes that targeted the South Pars gasfield earlier in the day.
“Such aggressive actions will not achieve anything for the American Zionist enemy and their supporters. Rather, they will complicate the situation and could lead to uncontrollable consequences that will affect the entire world,” he said.
Meanwhile, Qatar’s Ministry of Interior has urged residents to remain indoors due to what it described as an elevated security threat.
Authorities have not provided further details, but the advisory comes amid growing concerns over the safety of energy infrastructure and civilian areas in the region.
