Slew of programmes for districts of JDS stronghold
Ramanagara, Hassan, Mysuru, Mandya get lion-share
Bengaluru, July 05: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy who holds the Finance portfolio announced a slew of programmes for the districts like Hassan, Ramanagara, Mysuru and Mandya, the JDS bastions in the Budget presented on Thursday.
In his maiden budget of the coalition government, the CM announced programmes worth over Rs 200 crore for Hassan district in the budget including Rs 50 crore to set up a mega dairy having a capacity of 15 lakh litre of milk in the Hassan Milk Federation, Rs 30 crore for super speciality hospital and outer ring road construction, Rs 70 crore to develop the district as a manufacturing hub of bathroom accessories and feeding Hemavathi river water to 160 tanks.
The CM also announced financial assistance for a private training institute to train tourist guides at Belur, construction of a star hotel and Rs 10 crore for modernizing the Hassan KSRTC unit and Rs 36 crore for the development of Channapatna tank in Hassan.
For Mysuru district, the CM announced Rs 3 crore to set up cocoons market at Mysuru, Rs 1 crore to set up a super speciality hospital for giving third stage treatment for heart, cancer and other diseases, Rs 200 crore to set up a new 450-bed hospital in Chamarajanagar Medical College and Rs 50 crore for supplying additional 300 MLD water from Cauvery river near Undavadi for 92 villages and Mysuru city.
A sum of Rs 30 crore was earmarked in the budget to upgrade the Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences into 800 bed hospital, Rs 5 crore to provide more facilities for the tourists at world famous Gagana Chukki- Bhara Chukki falls, Rs 30 crore for feeding the tanks in the district and providing drinking water to the villages in Mandya taluk from Lokapavani river and Rs 50 crore special package for the overall development of Mandya city.
In the same way, the CM announced to set up a new medical college at Kanakapura in Ramanagar district and Rs 40 crore was reserved to set up a 300-bed super speciality hospital. In order to encourage the tourist activities, it was planned to develop Arts and Crafts World Village near Ramanagara and Children’s World scheme at entrance of Kanva reservoir with the private partnership, he announced.
He also announced that Rs 30 crore was reserved to open a Film University with private partnership. Along with this, he also announced Rs 40 crore for developing photography, editing, sound recording units, animation studios, computer graphics studios in Ramanagar Film City and encouraging the industries which support the film industry, he said.
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Three company directors held in Rs 100-crore investment fraud in Kochi
Kochi (Kerala) (PTI): Police on Sunday arrested three directors of a firm accused of cheating hundreds of investors of over Rs 100 crore through a fake investment scheme linked to agricultural tourism here, officials said.
The accused were identified as Muraleedharan, Ashik Murali and Akhil Murali, all natives of Thrissur.
The arrests were made by the Kalamassery police in connection with a fraud involving ATCOS (Agri Tourism Cooperative Society), a firm headquartered at Pathadipalam here.
Police said the company had promised high returns by collecting investments from the public in the agricultural tourism sector, but allegedly cheated hundreds of people and fled with the money.
ATCOS was registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act and operated 13 branches across various districts in Kerala, besides a branch in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, officials said.
When investors failed to receive their promised returns or the invested amount, complaints were filed with the police.
Officials said around 54 cases have been registered against the firm in 32 police stations across the state, including 29 cases at the Kalamassery police station alone.
Following instructions from Kochi City Police Commissioner K S Mahesh Kumar, a special investigation team was formed under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Shehensha and Thrikkakara ACP Manoj Kumar.
The team traced the accused to an apartment in Amala Nagar in Thrissur, where they had been hiding after secretly renting the flat, officials said.
The bank accounts of the accused have been frozen, and steps have been initiated to trace their assets, officials said.
Police also conducted a raid at the company’s office at Pathadipalam and seized several documents related to the case.
The accused were produced before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Kalamassery, which remanded them to judicial custody and sent them to Kakkanad jail.
Police said they would seek the custody of the accused for further interrogation as the investigation continues.
