Gowda: Pm For Karnataka...

• A Field Marshal K. M. Cariappa Memorial Park in Bangalore.
• World Bank- aided health system development project— which will also be implemented in West Bengal and Punjab— in Bangalore. This was one of Deve Gowda’s dreams when he was chief minister.
• Foundation stone for convention centre of University of Agricultural Sciences Alumni Association, Bangalore.
• Ganga Kalyana scheme in Gulbarga district which provides irrigation facilities exclusively to SCs, STs, OBCs and minorities of Karnataka. The first of its kind in the country, the scheme aims to irrigate 7,500 acres of land at a cost of Rs 103 crore in order to benefit 2,500 farmers in the state.
• Modernisation work of Hubli railway workshop at a cost of Rs 17.93 crore at Hubli.
• Flag- off Bangalore- Hubli- Mumbai Express at Hubli.
• Hospital complex of Sanjay Gandhi Accident Hospital and Research Institute, Bangalore.
• Mobile fruit processing factory of Karnataka Agro Industries Corporation Ltd, at Hebbal near Bangalore.
• Dairy development schemes worth Rs 115 crore in Bangalore.
• Social security scheme by LIC to cover 14 lakh milk producers in Karnataka.
• Rs 14 crore scheme under which 4,000 mini dairy units will be opened for the unemployed youth of Karnataka.
• Foundation stone for Grand Vaikunta complex at Kaiwara, Kolar district.
• South Western railway zone in Bangalore.
• New railway station building at K. R. Nagar.

ANNOUNCEMENTS, PROMISES AND PROPOSALS FOR RAILWAYS

• South West Railway Zone to be headquartered in Bangalore.
• Gorakhpur- Hyderabad Express extended to Bangalore once a week.
• Munirabad- Mehboobnagar railway line worth Rs 300 crore.
• Rs 10 crore sanctioned for Hubli workshop.
• Gowda assures more funds for completion of Hassan- Mangalore broad gauge work.
• Mumbai- Bangalore Express via Hubli to run four days a week from the earlier two- days a week.

OTHER INAUGURATIONS AND LAUNCHES (NOT BY DEVE GOWDA)

• Country’s first regional centre of the song and drama division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in Bangalore. The Centre got a grant of Rs 50 lakh for 1996- 97 and was promised Rs 1 crore for ’97- ’98.
• Bangalore- Dubai weekly direct flight by Air- India.
• Twice- a- week Bangalore- Muscat- Sharjah flights by Air- India.
• ‘Shabdana’, centre for translation of famous literary works from various Indian languages.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS AND PROPOSALS

• A high- power microwave station costing Rs 8.5 crore to be set up in Bangalore by DoT.
• Hassan, Bellary and Bijapur to get 100 industries that will manufacture goods from locally available raw materials under the rural industrial development programme for which the National Productivity Council is the nodal agency.
• NDDB to bear 50 per cent of losses of sick dairy units in Karnataka.
• HUDCO funding to increase from Rs 8 crore to Rs 30 crore for housing and water supply schemes.
• Hi- tech, state of the art 20,000 line Swedish AXE- 10 Ericsson telephone exchange that can handle 800,000 call attempts every hour for Bangalore.
• Processing unit of National Seeds Corporation in Mysore.
• Bijapur, Mysore, Bidar and Shimoga to get airports in two years. Hubli airport to be expanded at a cost of Rs 12 crore.
• A NIFT branch at Whitefield.
• Rs 10 lakh for Karnataka Chalachitra Kalavidara Sangha (Karnataka Film Artistes’ Association) for construction of a Temple of Art. The decision was taken by Deve Gowda, according to C. M. Ibrahim.
• Information Bhawan to be set up in Bangalore at a cost of Rs 45 lakh.
• Centre to sanction Rs 25.95 crore for development of Bangalore rural district as part of a Rs 117.99 crore plan to give houses for homeless.
• Departure terminal of Bangalore Airport to be upgraded and airconditioned at a cost of Rs 6 crore.
• Karnataka likely to get Rs 180 crore from Centre for accelerated irrigation development schemes.
• Karnataka likely to get Rs 25 crore from Centre for slum development.
• OECF, Japan to provide Rs 396 crore aid to develop Hampi and establish a world heritage centre.
• Centre to release Rs 6 crore to match Karnataka government’s Rs 6 crore to buy excess onion and potato crop grown in the state to help stabilise their prices.
• BGML to be revived after relinquishing it from BIFR control. (BGML’s net loss in 1995- 96 was Rs 46 crore.)
• Centre to recommend to Planning Commission to release Rs 20 crore for tourism development in state.
• Rs 90 crore aid to Bangalore from France for city development.
• HUDCO to grant Rs 30 crore loan to construct new jails in Chitradurga, Mandya, Chikmagalur, Mangalore and Hassan.
• Gowda promises Rs 300 crore aid from HUDCO for implementation of 20 schemes under Bangalore’s mega city project.
• Gowda promises to consider Karnataka’s demand for enhancing housing allotment under Indira Awas Yojana from the present 53,000 to one lakh.
• Karnataka to get Rs 549 crore HUDCO loan for housing schemes, water supply and drainage in urban areas and Bangalore megacity projects. Announcement made after meeting under Gowda’s chairmanship.
• Karnataka Regiment to be set up in Indian Army to provide employment to 3000 Kannadigas.

CLEARANCES GIVEN...

• Eco-clearance for 1,000 MW Rs 3,950- crore Cogentrix thermal power plant in Dakshina Kannada district.
• 17 new sugar mills get licences, 13 others get clearance for capacity expansion. Several violate the 25- km distance to be maintained between two mills.
• For four private sector firms to start dairy operations in the state.
• Rs 60 crore HUDCO loan for Bangalore flyover project cleared on priority basis.
• Gowda negotiates with the Ministry of Defence over transfer of defence land for the Bangalore ring road project.
• Union Health Ministry clears additional intake in medical and dental colleges of Karnataka.
• Rs 122.5 crore under accelerated irrigation benefit programme— 97.50 per cent of it is released immediately, asks for more loan proposals.
• Centre releases Rs 39 crore as first instalment for loans to OBCs. A Rs 35 crore instalment to be released.