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  • Cabinet ministers will take oath today Congress party has given social justice

    Cabinet ministers will take oath today Congress party has given social justice

    Bengaluru: The Congress party has taken its time to form the cabinet of the Siddaramiah government but going by the list- it appears the delay was worth it as it has given representation to many castes in a bid to deliver social justice.

    The late-night discussions in Delhi between the Congress top brass and the state leadership has yielded results in a comprehensive list announcing portfolios for 24 ministers. The ceremony to take oath as ministers will be held at 11.45 on Saturday (today) at Raj Bhavan.

    However, few senior legislators have been left out, but considering the pressing need to balance the caste equation had become imminent during the process of choosing the MLAs for the ministerial portfolios said a senior leader. Senior leaders like RV Deshpande (Brahmin) who won from Haliyal and BK Hariprasad (Billava) MLC have been left out which has become a matter for discussion within the party.

    According to the list released by national general secretary KC Venugopal in the wee hours of Saturday includes HK Patil (Gadag) Namdhari Reddy community, Krishna Byre Gowda (Bengaluru) N Cheluvarayaswamy (Nagamangala-Mandya) Vokkaliga, K Venkatesh (Mysuru) Vokkaliga, Dr. HC Mahadevappa, (Mysuru) SC right, Eshwar Khandre, (Bidar) Banajiga Veerashaiva Lingayat, KN Rajanna(Tumukuru) ST, Dinesh Gundu Rao (Bengaluru) Brahmin, Sharanappa Darshanapur (Yadgir) Lingayat Reddy, Shivanand Patil (Bijapur) Panchamasali Lingayat, RB Thimappur, (Bagalkot) SC left, SS Mallikarjun(Davanagere) Sadar Lingayat, Shivaraj Tangadagi(Koppal) SC Bhovi, Sharan Prakash Patil(Gulburga) Adi Banajiga Lingyat, Mankal Vaidya(Bhatkal) Mogaveera Backward Caste, Laxmi Hebbalkar (Belagavi) Panchamasali Lingayat, Rahim Khan(Bidar) Muslim, D Sudhakar (Chitradurga) Jain, Santhosh Laad(Dharwad) Maratha Backward Caste, NS Boseraju(Raichur) Backward caste, Byrathi Suresh (Bengaluru) Kuruba Backward Caste, Madhu Bangarappa(Shivamogga) Eediga Backward classes, MC Sudhakar (Chikkaballapur) Vokkaliga and B Nagendra (Bellary) ST.

    14 of them are from the Siddaramiah followers and 10 are from Shivakumar followers.

    Over 1000 policemen have been deployed for security around Raj Bhavan under the officer of the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police and 12 other officers of SP and ASP ranks. Only few invitations have been given out. Totally a crowd of 500 people including that of family members of the new ministers is expected to participate.

  • Cabinet Minister Ganesh Joshi took a meeting regarding preparations for Shri Anna Mahotsav 2023

    Cabinet Minister Ganesh Joshi took a meeting regarding preparations for Shri Anna Mahotsav 2023

    Uttarakhand. Cabinet Minister Ganesh Joshi held a review meeting regarding preparations for Shri Anna Mahotsav 2023 at the Secretariat on Monday. This festival is proposed on 13-14 May 2023 at Survey of India, Hathibarkala, Dehradun. The objective of Shree Anna Mahotsav, organized by the Department of Agriculture, is to increase public awareness about the healthful benefits of millets in line with the concept of the International Year of Millets declared by the United Nations. Visitors to the festival will be able to peruse local food stalls from different states of India. Along with this, discussions on the usefulness of millets, scientific sessions, presentations on millets by related institutions, universities and startups, etc. will be organized in this festival. This Millets Festival is a collective effort involving various stakeholders promoting the cultivation and use of millets. In this, the Agriculture Department and other departments of the Government of Uttarakhand, Indian Institute of Millets Research Hyderabad, State Agricultural Universities and Research Institutes, Agricultural Colleges, Hotels, Restaurants, Farmers Groups, FPOs, Self Help Groups, Cooperative Societies, Startups, Private Companies And agricultural investors will be involved. Agriculture ministers of the central government and all the states will also participate in this millets festival. In the meeting, Cabinet Minister Shri Ganesh Joshi said that organizing Shri Anna Mahotsav 2023 in Uttarakhand is an achievement for the state. To make the festival a success, the concerned departments will have to make coordinated efforts and work seriously. He directed that a painting and essay competition based on millets should also be organized for school children during this festival. Full care should be taken of the facilities of all the visitors participating in the festival. The cabinet minister said that 2.0 lakh metric tonnes of nutritious grains were produced in Uttarakhand in the year 2021-22, which shows the increasing popularity of millets and its huge demand in the market. Uttarakhand has favorable climate and ideal conditions for the production of millets. Uttarakhand Millets Mission has been proposed by the state government to promote the cultivation of millets and to encourage their maximum use. Under this, assistance will be given to millets farmers and market linkage will be created for millets based products. Additional Secretaries Pooja Garbyal, Nikita Khandelwal, Manuj Goyal, Director Agriculture Gauri Shankar, Registrar Cooperative Alok Kumar Pandey, Chief Development Officer Jharna Kamthan and other senior officers were present in the meeting.