NEW DELHI: Karnataka government is planning to roll out a bill on crowd control and management, according to state law and Parliamentary affairs minister HK Patil. This comes in the wake of tragic stampede on June 4 that killed 11 people in Bengaluru.Other bills that are set to be tabled include Rohith Vemula Bill, 2025;…
File photo: CM Siddaramaiah (Photo: ANI) BENGALURU: Congress’s decision to undertake a new caste survey in Karnataka has left the Siddaramaiah government sandwiched between a section of backward classes apprehensive of losing their purported advantage of numbers in the Kantharaj Commission’s report and dominant communities like Lingayats and Vokkaligas that seek re-enumeration.This growing divergence over…
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: Congress decided Tuesday to undertake a fresh caste survey in Karnataka, citing rumblings within the state’s dominant communities about the reliability of the 2015 enumeration data, and asking CM Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar to target a 60- to 80-day timeframe for the exercise.Sources said the immediate incentive for the Congress brass…
A long-gestating item on Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah’s policy wishlist finally made it to the agenda of a cabinet meeting on April 17. The consternation among the Congress’s own legislators, the aggravated tones in community debates in the state, perhaps beyond, all that had been building up. For, on the table was the 306-page report…
Karnataka Caste Survey: कर्नाटक में जातिगत जनगणना से जुड़ी एक अहम रिपोर्ट राज्य सरकार को सौंपी गई है. इस रिपोर्ट में राज्य में सामाजिक और आर्थिक रूप से पिछड़े वर्गों (OBC) को आरक्षण का प्रतिशत बढ़ाकर मौजूदा 32% से 51% करने की सिफारिश की गई है. यह रिपोर्ट मुख्यमंत्री सिद्धारमैया की अगुवाई में कर्नाटक कैबिनेट…