Speaking at a press conference in the city on Monday Health and Family Welfare Minister U T Khader, said that a survey conducted by the Food and Civil Supplies Department revealed that there were 1,300 BPL families under Ullal CMC limits. Among them 570 are very poor families, according to a survey conducted by the CMC. They will be provided with LPG connections under various government schemes, he said.
A formal programme would be held at Ullal CMC grounds on March 11 at 10 a.m. for the formal declaration of kerosene-free CMC, the minister said.
Deputy Director of Food and Civil Supplies C.S. Sharanabasappa said the council had provided connections to as many as 1,500 households using kerosene who come under the below poverty line and above poverty line groups.
Mr. Khader said work related to nine roads in his assembly constituency will be taken up under the Namma Grama Namma Raste Yojane. The State government has sanctioned Rs. 19.86 crore for roads in places such as Mudipu, Pajeeru, Kurnad and Sajipanadu. The works will commence from April. The contractor would carry out repairs, if any, noticed for five years from the time the road works are completed, he said.
Mr. Khader said Kasturba Medical College and Hospital will be given three years time to move out of Government Wenlock Hospital, where former students were using it for clinical practice.
The government had started the process of setting up a Government Medical College at the Wenlock Hospital. “The KMC, which has been serving at the Wenlock Hospital for several decades, will be given time to move out,” he said.
Mr. Khader said the State government would first open six new medical colleges, which had been stalled by Medial Council of India (MCI) on technical grounds.
They were seeking a grant of Rs. 400 crore for each college, for creation of facilities as sought by the MCI. The college on the Wenlock Hospital premises will be taken next year. Land of 20 acres required for the medical college was available, he added.
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