Udupi:The Udupi Zilla Panchayat on Tuesday directed the engineers of the Varahi Irrigation Project to release water to the canals as soon as possible so that farmers could benefit from it. Raising the issue at the monthly Karnataka Development Programme (KDP) meeting held at the Zilla Panchayat Hall here, Babu Shetty, chairman, Zilla Panchayat Standing […]

Udupi : District In-charge Minister Pramod Madhwaraj has directed officials to ensure that the beneficiaries are offered the privilege to dig wells under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). Speaking at the KDP quarterly meeting, the minister said there is an ample fund under the MGNREGS and added he would recommend action […]

Chikkamagaluru: Home Minister G Parameshwara on Friday promised to facilitate the early release of the pending Rs 2.19-crore student scholarship funds from the Department of Social Welfare. Presiding over the quarterly Karnataka Development Programmes (KDP) progress review meeting held here, Parameshwara, who is also the district in-charge minister, reacted to the demand of MLA D N Jeevaraj. The legislator […]

Mysuru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has warned officials of stringent action, including dismissal, if they fail to complete drinking water projects by the end of February. Chairing the Karnataka Development Programme (KDP) progress review meeting at the auditorium of the Regional Commissioner’s office here on Wednesday, Siddaramaiah took Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) Chief Executive […]

Mangaluru: The work under Shiradi Ghat reconstruction Package 2 on National Highway 75 (Mangaluru-Bengaluru) is likely to begin in January, although the final decision is yet to be taken. An official from the National Highways division of the state Public Works Department (PWD) at the quarterly Karnataka Development Programmes (KDP) review meeting, chaired by District […]

Mangaluru: Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Services and Sports, said on Wednesday that he has urged the Minister for Mines and Geology, Vinay Kulkarni, to formulate a sand policy for the three coastal districts of Udupi, Uttara Kannada and Dakshina Kannada. He was presiding over the tri-monthly Karnataka Development Programme (KDP) meeting […]

Mangaluru : A Karnataka Development Programme (KDP) Review meeting here on Saturday decided to summon senior officials from Bengaluru responsible for Aadhaar registration after legislators pointed out that there is a mess at the registration counters. Raising the issue, Ivan D’Souza, MLC, said that at some counters, people would have to stand in queue from […]

Mangalore : Zilla Panchayat President Koragappa Naik has directed the officials to ensure that three per cent fund is earmarked in all the local bodies, in their annual action plans, for the welfare of persons with disabilities. Chairing the monthly Karnataka Development Programmes (KDP) review meeting here on Tuesday, he said that Bantwal taluk has not […]

Mangalore: The failure to spend three per cent of the budgetary allocations for persons with disabilities or its misuse by the Panchayat Development Officers (PDOs) in numerous villages of the district came to the fore at the Karnataka Development Projects (KDP) review meeting here on Monday. It was chaired by the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat […]

Mangalore: The DK district Panchayat president Koragappa Naik in a meeting of official pointed out on Tuesday that a some of Rs. 1 crore was left unused from the grants made to the disabled persons as a fixed amount for the current year and asked the officials to make full use of the grants provided […]