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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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
