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Krishna to hold talks with CJ again

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE AUG. 23. The Karnataka Government has decided to hold talks again with the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, N.K. Jain, on the issue of setting up a High Court Bench in North Karnataka.

Addressing presspersons after the Cabinet meeting here today, the Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, D.B. Chandre Gowda, said the Cabinet had discussed in detail a letter to the Government by Mr. Justice Jain on the issue.

A seven-member committee of judges of the High Court, which studied the demand for setting up the Bench, submitted a report to Mr. Justice Jain. Based on the recommendations of the committee, he recently wrote to the Government.

According to Mr. Chandre Gowda, the Chief Justice said in the letter: "I am of the opinion that in the absence of basic criteria, the constitution of a Bench away from the principal seat is not necessary at present.''

The Minister said that in view of this, the Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, and he had decided to meet Mr. Justice N.K. Jain to persuade him to help establish the Bench.

The Minister said according to the States Reorganisation Act, the President might provide for a permanent Bench other than the principal Bench after consultations with the Chief Justice of the High Court and the Governor of the State concerned.

The advocates' associations of Gulbarga, Hubli-Dharwad, and Bijapur have been demanding that the Government set up the Bench in their respective districts for the past few years.

Farmers' problems

The Cabinet decided to meet again on August 28 to specifically discuss the problems faced by farmers in the wake of a severe drought in the State.

The Minister for Information and Environment, Allum Veerabhadrappa, said the Cabinet held a detailed discussion on different issues related to farmers.

After collecting information about the debts incurred by them and cases of suicide from the Minister for Co-operation, H. Vishwanth, the Cabinet would meet on Thursday to discuss the issue, Mr. Veerabhadrappa said.

Despite implementing a number of policies such as minimum support price, insurance policy, and single window facility, many farmers were in dire financial straits, he added.

Mr. Chandre Gowda said the Cabinet approved the Special Recruitment Policy 2003 to rehabilitate those who lost their jobs following a Supreme Court verdict on the rural weightage scheme. The public was given 15 days' time to file objections against any aspect of the policy.

He said the Government was committed to recruiting all those who lost their jobs following the verdict. However, recruitment of a few candidates would be delayed as they had filed a review petition in the Supreme Court.

He appealed to them to withdraw the petition to enable the Government to provide jobs to all those affected by the verdict. Mr. Gowda urged them not to panic.

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