Mysuru DC Rohini Sindhuri says she only sought details of Rs 12 Crore CSR fund expenditure
Mysuru, Jun 4: A day after the Mysuru city municipal corporation commissioner Shilpa Nag announced her resignation, alleging harassment by the deputy commissioner of the district Rohini Sindhuri, the latter on Friday claimed she had only sought from her details of the Rs 12 crore CSR fund utilised in the city, besides COVID infection details.
"We wanted to utilise the Corporate Social Responsibility funds for COVID management under a government programme 'Vaidyara Nade, Halli Kade' (Doctors' march towards villages).
So I asked where the funds had gone. I wanted to know whether the entire Rs 12 crore of CSR fund was spent on the city and how it was utilised," Sindhuri told reporters on the sidelines of a function.
The deputy commissioner said the funds were required for the VNHK programme, but the details have not been shared yet.
Sindhuri added that she had sought Gram Panchayat and municipal ward wise details of COVID infections to ensure that Mysuru district is free from COVID by July 1.
"We need to join hands and give correct data. It cannot be right if one day you say there are 400 infections and 40 the next day. These discrepancies should not be fed to the COVID war room," Sindhuri added.
She added that she has already brought all the details to the notice of Chief Secretary P Ravi Kumar.
"We have already issued a press note and we have brought the entire thing to the notice of Chief Secretary P Ravi Kumar", she said.
Sources in the government said Ravi Kumar reportedly asked Nag how she conducted a press conference without bringing the matter to his notice.
Meanwhile, the government directed the Regional Commissioner of Mysuru to conduct a probe on reports about the construction of a swimming pool and a gymnasium at the Mysuru deputy commissioner's official residence at a cost of Rs 50 lakh.
The regional commissioner has been asked to furnish the report within a week.
As the fight between two senior IAS officers came out in the open, former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said this incident showed the 'inability' of the government.
"The open quarrels between the Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru district and the Municipal Commissioner of Mysuru city have raised suspicions in the state whether the government is in existence or not," Kumaraswamy tweeted.
Commenting on the issue, the Congress state chief D K Shivakumar quipped, "Yatha Raja, Tatha Adhikari" (As is the king, so are the officials).
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Rupee strengthens past 90/USD level in early trade
Mumbai (PTI): The rupee appreciated 24 paise to 89.96 against the US dollar in early trade on Friday, supported by corporate dollar inflows and easing crude oil prices.
Forex traders said the gain in the USD/INR pair follows the rupee’s string of record lows in recent weeks on likely intervention from the Reserve Bank of India.
Moreover, crude oil prices hovering around USD 59 per barrel level supported market sentiment.
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At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 90.19 against the US dollar, then gained some ground and touched 89.96 against the US dollar, registering a gain of 24 paise over its previous close.
In initial trade it also touched 90.22 against the American currency. On Thursday, the rupee appreciated 18 paise against the US dollar to close at 90.20 against the greenback.
The rupee sank to a fresh record low, breaching the 91-a-dollar mark for the first time on Tuesday.
"Since the speculators are out of the market the buying of US dollar syndrome has come down a bit though intra-day we could see spikes," said Anil Kumar Bhansali Head of Treasury and Executive Director Finrex Treasury Advisors LLP.
The US CPI came lower than expected but was also due to non-collection of sufficient data and therefore, the next month’s CPI becomes more important, Bhansali said, adding that "Rupee remains in a range of 90-90.50".
Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of six currencies, was trading 0.04 per cent higher at 98.46.
Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, was trading lower by 0.27 per cent at USD 59.66 per barrel in futures trade.
On the domestic equity market front, the 30-share benchmark index Sensex climbed 375.98 points to 84,857.79, while the Nifty was up 110.60 points to 25,934.15.
Foreign Institutional Investors purchased equities worth Rs 595.78 crore on Thursday, according to exchange data.
Meanwhile, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) member Sanjeev Sanyal on Thursday said he is not concerned about the rupee at all, arguing that even China and Japan witnessed exchange rate weaknesses during their high growth phases.
Speaking at 'Times Network's India Economic Conclave 2025', Sanyal said since the 90s, the rupee has mostly been allowed to find its own level, but the RBI uses its reserves to intervene in either direction to stop excessive volatility.
"I am not concerned about the rupee at all... Let me say that the rupee and its current weakness should not be necessarily conflated with some economic worry, because historically, if you go over time, you will see that economies that are in their high growth phase very often go through a phase of exchange rate weakness," he said.
