State’s new assembly session to begin from July 2

Team Udayavani, Jun 23, 2018, 9:29 AM IST

Bengaluru: Karnataka’s fifteenth legislative assembly will start its first session on July 2 and the JD(S)-Congress coalition government’s maiden budget will be introduced on July 5, said a cabinet minister on Friday. 

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Krishna Byre Gowda told the media “The state cabinet has decided to hold a 10-day session of the legislature from July 2, with Governor Vajubhai Vala’s address to the members,”  

In spite of the fact that the assembly met twice a month ago for the floor test of the three-day BJP government on May 19 and of the coalition government on May 25, the house was deferred around the same time on both the events. 

“Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (who holds the finance portfolio) will display an full fledged budget plan of the new government on July 5,” Gowda said. 

“The cabinet meeting additionally guided the state offices to finish their yearly transfers by July-end and the number of officials posted on different places ought not surpass in excess of four percent of the respective office’s strenght,” he said. 

Among the significant decisions taken at the two-hour meeting held at the state secretariat and led by Kumaraswamy are endorsing Rs 655 crore crop insurance to farmers across the state under the Central government’s ‘Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana’ for the pre-monsoon and post-monsoon of this monetary. 

The state government will give Rs 300 to each student in state-run schools studying in Class 1 to 10 for purchasing an extra uniform amid this academic year. The Education Department will be given Rs 115.8 crore for the plan. 

The cabinet has consented to give Rs 460 crore to the Higher Education Department for enhancing the method of education in the state-run pre-university and under graduate universities, under the ‘Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan’ scheme. 

The cabinet has likewise  extended the moratorium period by 10 years on the repayment of Rs 333.5-crore loan given to Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) for extending its facilities, including the second runway and second arrival and departure terminals.