CM Siddaramaiah Presents Karnataka State Budget 2015-16

• published: 13 Mar 2015
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TV9 Live: CM Siddaramaiah Presents Karnataka State Budget 2015-16 - Full....., ► Subscribe to Tv9 Kannada: https://youtube.com/tv9kannada ► Circle us on G+: https://plus.google.com/+tv9kannada ► Like us on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/tv9kannada ► Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tv9kannada ► Follow us on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/tv9karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who also holds Finance portfolio presented the State budget for 2015-16. This is the 10th budget by Mr. Siddaramaiah and third after becoming the Chief Minister. Speaking at the session, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah talks about communal harmony and upliftment of backward classes. He mentioned that the SC/ST and other backward classes are the priorities of the government. Here are some pointers from the Chief Minister’s Budget speech: * CM listed out some policies started out by the State Government: * State GDP growth estimated at 7% * Poems by Basavanna and Kuvempu find their way in the CM’s Budget speech * Five agricultural produce markets to be set up in State at Bidar, Dakshina Kannada and Uttara * Government school children will finally be able to wear socks and shoes. Rs. 120 crores allotted for that. * 200 government schools & 100 PU colleges to be declared Green power schools. Solar electric equipment to be installed * Committee to be set up to rope CSR funds to improve infrastructure in government schools * 1,000 more schools under Tele-Education Programme with IIM-B * Infrastructure improvements in govt B.Ed colleges * Transgender policy to be implemented. Rs. 20,000 will be given to 1,000 transgenders * Chair to be set up at University of Mysore to take up research on writer U.R. Ananthamurthy * Honorarium of anganwadi workers to be enhanced by Rs. 500 and assistants by Rs. 250 per month * To protect termination of girlchild during pregnancy all ultrasound scanning centres to be monitored realtime using onlinetech