Kumaraswamy asks officials to implement policies

Bangalore, May 22: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today urged the State bureaucracy to gear up the machinery and ensure implementation of various policies and programmes announced during the first 100 days of the JD(S)-BJP coalition government.

Addressing a meeting of Principal Secretaries at the Vidhana Soudha, the State Secretariat here, he said within the next 100 days the announcements made both in the Budget for the current fiscal and outside should be implemented.

Referring to complaints of tardy administration in districts, he urged the senior officials to camp in districts for two days in a month to ensure that the government policies and programmes were on stream.

Mr Kumaraswamy said the Finance Department had made it amply clear that funds would not be a constraint for developmental works and urged them to ensure that works were implemented in an effective manner.

He also urged the officials to ensure that enrcroached land in the Bangalore metropolis was freed.

Later, talking to newspersons here, he said the government had received a couple of proposals for a Monorail pilot project for 18 km between Kanakapura and Bangalore. The Government was looking into the proposals, he added.

UNI