The Hindu: Belagavi: Thursday,
February 23, 2017.
The State
government finds several reasons to deny even promised benefits under various
schemes to the socially and economically deprived sections of society but it
extends its largesse when it comes to free distribution of funds from the
exchequer at the expense of tax payers to Kannada organisations.
The
government has, through the Department of Kannada and Culture, distributed a
huge sum of ₹ 60.51 crore to several Kannada organisations across the State on
various occasions, including Rajyotsava, during five-year period from 2011-12
to 2015-16, said RTI activist Bhimappa Gadad, quoting figures he has obtained
from the department under the RTI Act.
Who got
what?
He told
presspersons here on Wednesday that ₹60.51 crore was distributed among 1,169
organisations, of which 402 are in Bengaluru city and Bengaluru Rural district
and received a lion’s share of ₹33.33 crore. There are 40 organisations that
have received more than ₹ 40 lakh. The organisations in Belagavi district received
₹ 66.55 lakh during the same period.
But, of the
40 organisations, the highest amount of ₹ 2.55 crore was given to secretary,
Shivakumar Kala Sangh, Sanehalli, Chitradurga, followed by ₹ 1.32 crore to
president, Akhil Bharat Sharan Sahitya Parishat, Jayanagar, Bengaluru, and ₹ 82
lakh to the founder-honorary secretary, Uday Bhanu Kala Sangh, Kempegowda
Nagar, Bengaluru.
Mr. Gadad
demanded that the government should conduct an inquiry and also tell people if
such huge amount of public money being distributed to such organisations had
any productive purposes.
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