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Karnataka
By Our Special Correspondent
Following this, the Chief Minister requested the Prime Minister to depute a technical committee of the Central Water Commission for a meeting here on Saturday. If necessary, the committee could visit the spot to study the situation. This was stated here today by the Information Minister, Kagodu Thimmappa, who, while briefing the Press about the decisions of the Cabinet, said the Chief Minister had made it clear to the Prime Minister that the project would not be used for any purpose other than supplying drinking water to the villages in the region. Mr. Thimmappa ruled out stopping work on the barrage now. With regard to the future of employees recruited on the basis of rural weightage, he said preparations were on to file a petition before the Supreme Court seeking a review of its order upholding the decision of the High Court quashing the rural weightage law, which had affected nearly 13,000 employees. About relieving 26 munsiffs, who were also affected by the judgment, Mr. Thimmappa said the Law Minister would write to the High Court seeking extension of time in view of the Government's decision to file a review petition in the Supreme Court. The Cabinet approved a decision of the Cabinet subcommittee to confer Statewide jurisdiction to the women's university to be set up in Bijapur, Mr. Thimmappa said. Initially, only women's colleges in Gulbarga and Belgaum divisions would be brought under the new university's purview. It was decided to adopt the CET model for admissions to postgraduate medical and dental courses with 50:50 seat-sharing formula. The courses would include pharmacy and nursing. The regulatory commission already appointed would go into the fee structure for these courses, he said.
Ban revoked
The Cabinet decided to do away with the practice of issuing "no-objection certificates" by the Government for opening new teachers' training and B.Ed. colleges. Now it was open to anybody to start such institutions after fulfilling the guidelines. A proposal for establishing an autonomous nephrology and urology institute on the premises of the Victoria Hospital here was approved by the Cabinet. The allocation for purchase of equipment has been raised from Rs. 50 lakh to Rs. 5 crore. Mr. Thimmappa said it was decided to start work on the 62-km. stretch of the Bangalore-Mysore four-lane project of the Karnataka Road Development Corporation at a cost of Rs. 188 crore. The construction agency would execute the project on an annuity basis with the payment spread over from the third to the eighth year. The Cabinet decided to provide equity capital of Rs. 2 crore for the Beverages Corporation. The corporation was authorised to raise Rs. 15-crore interest-free loan and Rs. 38-crore loan with interest. Referring to the drought relief work, Mr. Thimmappa said Rs. 42 crore had been released so far to meet the drinking water requirement in the affected areas, Rs. 45 crores for employment generation, and Rs. 10 crore towards seed subsidy. There was no shortage of seeds.
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