K'taka Cabinet okays 10-day Belagavi legislature session

Bengaluru, NT Bureau: The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday decided to hold the legislature session at the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha in Belagavi for 10 days from December 4.

"The state Legislature session will take place from December 4 at Belagavi. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was entrusted in the last cabinet meeting to decide. It will be a ten-day session," Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil told reporters after the cabinet meeting.

The cabinet also decided to organise a national-level conference on the Indian Constitution on November 26.

"As part of the Constitution Day, a national-level conclave called 'Constitution and National Integration Conference' will be organised on November 26. The cabinet decided to allocate Rs 18 crore for the purpose. The Social Welfare Department will organise the event," Patil said.

The cabinet gave the nod to the School Education and Literacy Department's proposal to set up innovation labs at 73 Karnataka Public Schools, and 50 model schools in the 'Aspirational Taluks' in order to provide essential facilities to make students innovative and practical.

The government has earmarked Rs 20 crore for this project. It also approved purchasing 124 buses at a cost of Rs 61.2 crore for the North West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC).

It also decided to re-launch the 'Krishi Bhagya' scheme; a Rs 100 crore budget has been sanctioned which will be implemented in rain-fed areas in 106 Taluks of 24 districts.