Bengaluru, Oct. 27: The Karnataka government will kick-start permanent rehabilitation work in the flood-hit northern districts of the state under the ‘Asare’ banner on November 1. The scheme envisages building one lakh homes using private contributions.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, coordinator for rehabilitation work Rajeev Chandrashekhar said the government had got an “overwhelming response” from corporates [...]

SHIMOGA: Out of 220 flood-affected villages in north Karnataka, the state government will construct houses and develop infrastructure in 150 villages from next month, said Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa.
He told reporters here on Monday that various organisations, mutts and religious institutions had come forward to construct houses and the foundation stone-laying functions would be held [...]

Following reports of loss of vision of over 300 persons, particularly children, during the Deepavali festival every year in the State, the Government is thinking of banning bursting of firecrackers on the road and residential areas.
Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Suresh Kumar, Home Minister V.S. Acharya and Medical Education Minister Ramachandra Gowda on Monday [...]

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Karnataka Chief Minister, B S Yeddyurappa, has sought additional loan assistance from NABARD, towards rebuilding infrastructure in flood-hit areas of the State.
In a letter to National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Develpment, he said, Karnataka government had been availing loan assistance from NABARD under Regional Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) scheme, since 1995-96.
“During the current year, [...]

Bangalore, Oct 23, DH News Service:
Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have joined hands to repair the bridge across Tungabhadra river on the state highway connecting Raichur and Mantralaya.

Karnataka CM B S Yeddyurappa and his Andhra counterpart Rosaiah, on Friday, agreed to share the cost of the repair of the bridge.
Yeddyurappa, briefing the media [...]

The new BJP State president will be elected in December this year.

Speaking to reporters after the party office bearers meeting in Bangalore on Thursday, BJP State President D V Sadananda Gowda said  the organisational elections at the booth and panchayat level would be held between November 1 and 20.
The elections at the mandal and assembly [...]

Bangalore, Oct 23, DHNS:
Chief Minister Yeddyurappa fired a salvo at the Congress on Thursday by volunteering to join the party’s proposed delegation to New Delhi to meet the Prime Minister to seek funds for flood relief work.

The CM’s move is seen as a way of hitting out at the Congress for having stayed away from [...]

By Team Mangalorean Bangalore
BANGALORE, October 22, 2009: The organisational elections of the Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party will begin on November 1 and conclude on either December 15 or 17 with the election of the new State president on that day. That means that State BJP will get a new president in December. [...]

The State Cabinet, which met here on Thursday, approved the development of 10,000 km of rural roads with funds largely drawn from the Union Government’s Prime Minister’s Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY).
Briefing presspersons on the decisions taken by the Cabinet, Minister for Home V.S. Acharya said a project report would be prepared and the rural roads [...]

Bangalore, Oct 22, DH News Service:
It seems the State government has resorted to quid pro quo to get contributions from private education institutions for flood relief works.

It has assured education institutes to bring in changes in law to allow them purchase agriculture land directly from farmers. However, in response to the gesture the chief minister [...]

By  Team Mangalorean Bangalore
BANGALORE, October 22, 2009: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday said that he would join a delegation led by the Opposition parties’ leaders to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to seek more funds and relief material to rebuild houses, schools, hospitals and infrastructure in the flood hit districts of north [...]

Bengaluru, Oct. 21: Recognising the fact that a majority of the lowest rung of police personnel, the constables, go through their entire career without a single promotion, Chief Minister B.S. Yedyurappa announced that henceforth all constables, subject to their service records, will be promoted after 18 years of service to the post of head constable. [...]