Food programme for BPL category, says BSY

The government has formulated special

programmes for the district to provide sufficient food grains to the BPL

category, said former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa in Yaraballi village on

Wednesday. Minister of Cooperation B J Puttaswamy will look after the implementation,

he said.After inspecting the drought relief and MGNREGA works,

Yeddyurappa said that the government is providing 29 kg of rice and six kg

wheat each at `3 per kg and one kg of sugar at `13.5. The programme is

presently introduced at Chitradurga, Davangere, Bidar and Gulbarga districts,

termed the most backward in the country by the apex court.“Even though ours is the ruling party, I acted as an

opposition leader and ensured that agricultural loans to the tune of 25,000 is

waived,” he said. He promised to conduct a resurvey of pensioners. Yeddyurappa

advised the villagers to use the benefits of MGNREGA and stop migrating.He began his tour from Nayakanahatti and passed through

Neralagunte, Talaku, Meerasabhihalli, Sanikere, Eraballi, Hiriyur, Aymangala,

Vaddikere and Challakere town, ending at Chitradurga.At Ranikere, he said the government had released `16 crore

for development of tanks and feeder channels from Vedavathi river.

this year banning machine harvesting of paddy in Shimoga, Raichur, Bellary,

Koppal, Davangere and other paddy growing areas.Yeddyurappa urged Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar to issue a

circular banning holidays of government employees in the drought-affected

districts. He also requested the Centre to reimburse the loss incurred by the

state government owing to waiver of crop loans.