K'taka govt accused of inept handling of CET issue

Hubli, June 4 (UNI) Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council H K Patil today accused the coalition government, headed by H D Kumaraswamy, of handling the Common Entrance Test (CET) for professional courses in an immature and irresponsible manner.

Talking to newspersons here, he claimed that the social justice adopted by former Chief Minister M Veerappa Moily in the CET had been completely defeated under the present JD (S)-BJP rule.

He alleged that the government lacked far-sightedness and pointed out that the number of seats available at the disposal of the government had reduced to less than 5,000 this year from 38,000 last year.

''Even now things can be set right if the nine amendments proposed by him during his tenure as Law Minister are implemented,'' Mr Patil said.

Referring to the State High Level Clearance Committee sanctioning over 5,000 arces of land to real estate bigwigs for five projects under the garb of allotting it for Information Technology and allied industries, Mr Patil demanded that the government withdraw the decision immediately.

Coming down heavily on the government for failing to implement the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, he said though the scheme came into force on February two last, the government was yet to notify it. Of the Rs 100 crore received from the Centre for the purpose, the state had not spent even Rs 10 crore, he pointed out.

On the Kalasa Bandori project, Mr Patil said 40 days had passed since an all-party meeting was held in this regard and the Chief Minister was yet to lead a delegation to New Delhi to meet the Prime Minister. ''I only urge Mr Kumarswamy to discharge his duties on time,'' he added.

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