CM to take administration to the doorstep of people

Bangalore, Aug 18 (UNI) Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumarswamy today claimed that by taking the administration to the doorstep of people he was able to solve their problems directly.

Commenting on his weekly Janata Darshan programme, Mr Kumaraswamy told newspersons that the scheme was 70 per cent success.

Before embarking on his marathon Darshan for the day with a large number of people waiting to pour their woes to him, he said he had given priority to meet people and resolve their problems.

However, most of the people who met him sought government employment, he said adding it was difficult to place them in government service but assured them gainful employment through self employment schemes.

The government had planned to build 24 lakh houses under Ashraya Housing Scheme in the next three years to provide houses to people below the poverty line, he said.

Plans were afoot to implement a scheme for providing pension to women, deserted or abondoned by their husbands, he added.

The government had provided loan facility of Rs 15,000 to Rs 25,000 to 14 beneficiaries belonging to minoriy communities, including autorickshaw drivers and women, he said.

More than 3,000 people had gathered at Chief Minister's Official Residence 'Krishna' for the Janata Darshan.

T V Subramanya, a 20-year-old physically-challenged with a bunch of stateand national level medals in Kabaddi and athletics in his neck and shield in his hands, said he was coming for the second time to the 'Janata Darshan' to get a government job.

He said he was a Kabaddi captain at the state level, won national medals besides taking part in cricket too.

Now he wants the Chief Minister to come to his village in Doddaballapur taluk to stay at his home and set a model that the government was caring for the physcially-challenged persons.

Another elderly woman from Arakanahalli in Maddur taluk, with her ailing daughter Mangala, approached the Chief Minister for a help. The officials immediately issued a cheque for Rs 10,000.

The old woman said her daughter was paralysed when she was ten years old.

A physcically-challenged man along with his wife and their daughter, were assured a house under the Ashraya Housing Scheme.

The problems, the people mostly narrated were related to jobs, healthcare, legal disputes and pensions.

UNI