Congress in DK dist will hold camps for registration of guarantee schemes

Mangaluru: Congress in Dakshina Kannada will hold registration camps to help eligible beneficiaries of five guarantee schemes of the government in the district.
KPCC vice-president Ivan D’Souza told reporters on Monday that the party will hold camps through officials of the respective departments that are implementing guarantee schemes.
“The camps will be held to register for the ‘Gruha Lakshmi’ scheme that guarantees Rs 2,000 monthly assistance to the woman head of every family from June 15 to July 15. The Congress will request the Mescom managing director to constitute teams to register the eligible beneficiaries for the Gruha Jyoti scheme that ensures 200 units of free power to households,” he said.
“The BJP in Karnataka has become inactive and they are unable to digest the welfare schemes being implemented by the Congress government in Karnataka,” D’Souza added. Slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for terming Congress’s guarantees as ‘bogus cards’, he sought to know whether the BJP leaders and the prime minister are in favour of the poor or not.
“Is there anything wrong with a state government implementing welfare schemes for the people? In the last four years, the BJP government tried to divert people’s attention by raising the issue of religion, revision of textbooks, Tipu Sultan, Veer Savarkar, moral policing and cow slaughtering rather than development works,” D’Souza said.
On chief minister Siddaramaiah halting development works across the state, D’Souza said that the decision was taken to scrutinise the works and all the sanctioned works will be continued.
“There were allegations of works being carried out without taking prior approval and some were taken up for vested interests without necessity. All such works will be scrutinised,” he said.
“On revision of power tariff, D’Souza said that it has nothing to do with the state government. The power tariff is decided by the regulatory body,” he added.