Upgradation of ULBs

• The City Municipal Councils of Shimoga, Tumkur and Vijayapura have been upgraded to City Corporations

• 38 Grama Panchayaths to Town Panchayaths
• 18 Grama Panchayaths to Town Municipal Councils
• 1 Grama Panchayath to City Municipal Council.
• Upgradation of 16 Town Panchayaths to Town Municipal Councils and 15 Town Municipal Councils to City Municipal Councils

Commissionerate

The Expert Committee recommendations have been obtained for upgrade the Directorate of Municipal Administration to Commissionerate.  Action is being taken to implement the recommendations.

Direct payment to outsourced employees

Action is being taken to increase the salary of 11,988 Pourakarmikas who are working in the State as outsource employees and to make payment directly to their bank account.

State Finance Commission Grants

Entry Tax Devolution

Sl.No.	Financial Year	Allocation Amount (Rs. in Crore)	Amount released to Urban Local Bodies (Rs. in crore)
1.	2013-14	2194.00	1677.53
2.	2014-15	2326.78	1990.81
3.	2015-16	2557.97	2415.48

Untied Grants

Sl.No.	Financial Year	Allocation Amount (Rs. in Crore)	Amount released to Urban Local Bodies (Rs. in crore)
1.	2013-14	782.64	591.52
2.	2014-15	811.47	608.59
3.	2015-16	812.56	609.42

Out of the released grants 24.1% for SC/ST, 7.25% for Welfare of poor and 3% for physically handicapped are reserved

Kaup TMC Election Manifesto Snapshot

The future of Kaup is in the hands of the people of Kaup., they have the big task of ensuring that Kapu witnesses overall development which is envisioned and few of those projects have already been implemented. i would like to share with you few of the project snapshots so that people know its not in words but in action we believe.

Karnataka Development Programme (KDP)

Hamlets in 22 GPs in Udupi dist. getting water through tankers

A sum of Rs. 1.2 crore released to tackle water problem in urban areas: Sorake

Vinay Kumar Sorake, Urban Development Minister, said on Monday that all efforts were being made to supply drinking water in areas facing water scarcity in Udupi district.

Addressing presspersons after the tri-monthly Karnataka Development Programme (KDP) meeting here, Mr. Sorake said that water through tankers was being supplied to hamlets in 22 gram panchayats — 11 in Udupi, 10 in Kundapur taluk and one in Karkala taluk — hit by water scarcity in the district.

The following are the gram panchayats getting water supply through tankers: Hemmady, Gulvady, Yedthare, Koteshwar, Haklady, Paduvari, Belve, Karkunje, Kirimanjeshwara, Byndoor (Kundapur taluk), Perdoor, Ambalpady, Katapady, Harady, Uppoor, Kallianpur, Karje, Kadekar, Majur, Kokkarne and Bairampalli (Udupi taluk) and Shivapura (Karkala taluk).

Both temporary and permanent measures were being taken to solve the drinking water problem. Nearly 95 per cent of the permanent works had been completed. In some places, only power connection had to be given to these projects. Some drinking water projects would be taken up under the Multi Village Scheme.

A committee under the Chief Executive Officer of the Zilla Panchayat would be monitoring the drinking water situation in the rural areas. A sum of Rs. 1.2 crore had been released to tackle water problem in urban areas of the district.

As far as sand extraction was concerned, five tenders had been floated for sand extraction in sand blocks in the non-Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) areas of the district. As many as 30 sand bars had been identified in the CRZ areas. Sand extraction was expected to begin on Wednesday.

There was a delay of a couple of months in clearing sand extraction proposals in the district as some clearances from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests were awaited. “We have urged the State government to allow the sand extracted in the district to be used for development works here,” he said.

Under the Swachch Bharat Abhiyan, over 5,000 toilets had been constructed in the district at a cost of Rs. 7.48 crore. It had also been decided to provide Solid Waste Management Plants to 19 gram panchayats in the district to help in garbage disposal.

Under the Gram Vikas Yojane, five selected villages in every Assembly constituency in the district had been given Rs. 26 lakh each for development works. As many as 120 houses had been sanctioned for the district under the Matsyashraya scheme, Mr. Sorake said.

Priyanka Mary Francis, Chief Executive Officer of the Zilla Panchayat, was present.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/hamlets-in-22-gps-in-udupi-dist-getting-water-through-tankers/article8492307.ece

Udupi: UPCL takover by Adani - Sorake slams Modi

Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (HB) Udupi, May 19: Urban development minister and district incharge Vinay Kumar Sorake on Tuesday May 19 lashed out at the union government, particularly at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and said that Modi's 'right hand' industrialist Gautam Adani's group had come forward to purchase UPCL as part of a 'strategy' to acquire farmers' land. Addressing a press meet here, Sorake said, "Prime Minister Modi’s right hand Adani's group has come forward to purchase UPCL by investing Rs 6,500 crore. The central government is plotting a strategy to acquire land belonging to poor farmers. This is the achievement of one year of Modi-led government." "I have always been against the 1,200-MW UPCL power plant. The authorities should have sorted out all the problems faced by the famers before acquiring their agricultural land in Kaup," he added. "Rs 6,400 crore had been sanctioned by the central government for three projects, but Modi cancelled the sanctioned amount of Rs 3,000 crore and there are no other grants sanctioned by the centre except the MP fund. The centre has released only Rs 82 crore under Swachch Bharat Abhiyan scheme. Modi says his dream is 'Make in India', but he has not even prepared guidelines for achieving this," he said. Condemning MP Shobha Karandlaje's statement that Congress government in the state has been a 'big zero', Sorake said, "If she is concerned about development of her own city, she should have asked sought IIT for her own constituency instead of Raichur district. She has no confidence in her ability to make contributions to society." Sorake, describing the two successful years of the Congress administration, said that the first phase of the most-awaited Varahi irrigation project, totally worth Rs 596 crore, has been started. "Foundation was recently laid for the Rs 141.38-crore advanced research center at Belapu. The state has completed more than 100 promises made to the public," he added. He further added that before commenting, BJP members should look at their own track record when they were in power in the state. He further said, "The state government has sanctioned Rs 123 crore for the development of coastal fishing and other basic infrastructure. The diesel subsidy was increased from Rs 300 to Rs 400 and the banking loan closing term was increased from 12 to 24 months for women. A proposal has been sent to the central government for the construction of Hejamady port. Approximately, 244 sea walls have been constructed and work amounting to Rs 2,730.24 lac of work is in process. Total Rs 168 crore worth of the sea wall project (from Ullal) is under process as per the ADB scheme and the third phase of Malpe port is under way. Udupi district has achieved 99.23 percent of success in revival of 116 lakes at an expense of Rs 413.78 lac." Sorake said he felt happy about Udupi and Dakshina Kannada achieving good results in SSLC and PUC exams, and praised the toppers hailing from the twin districts. Speaking about Ksheera Bhaggya and other government schemes, he said that 2,03,734 students were provided milk three days in a week and 21,621 bicycles were distributed to the students. Construction of Mini Vidhana Soudha "A Mini Vidhana Soudha building is to be established and an amount of Rs 5 crore has been released. A 25 acre site has been identified at Uppoor for a new police training school and 10 acre of land has been reserved for the establishment of a University center," he informed. "Nearly 32,638 Anthyodaya cards and 1,2,373 BPL cards have been distributed till now. In this term 1,471 people received old age pension, 6,981 widow pension and 2,016 received disability pension. A total Rs 85 crore grant was sanctioned to the City Municipal Council, Udupi," said Sorake. Regarding the upcoming gram panchayat elections, he said, "The preparation for gram panchayat elections is going well and we have been conducting meeting in every block office to strengthen the party's unity."

Government upgrades 56 village panchayats

THE HINDU BENGALURU, May 3, 2015

The State government has upgraded 56 big village panchayats in various districts.

While 42 of them have been upgraded as Town Panchayats (TPs), 13 have been re-designated as Town Municipal Councils (TMCs) and one has been declared as City Municipal Council (CMC).

Announcing this at a press conference in Bengaluru on Saturday, Urban Development Minister Vinay Kumar Sorake said the village panchayats having a population of more than 15,000 had been declared as TPs while those with a population exceeding 20,000 and 50,000 had been upgraded into TMCs and CMC respectively. The upgraded panchayats would be removed from the list of other rural local bodies going to polls shortly as they have been converted into urban local bodies, Mr. Sorake said.

The upgrading would help the erstwhile village panchayats to get more funds for planned infrastructure development, including drains, and drinking water facility, the Minister said. Presently, the State has 11 city corporations, 41 CMCs, 94 TMCs and 68 taluk panchayats.

Mr. Sorake said Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala had given clearance for the government to go ahead with the process of regularisation of unauthorised constructions on government lands in urban areas (other than Bengaluru).

The Revenue Department was in the process of evolving rules for this legislation which would soon be implemented.

He also made it clear that the government would only collect the applications seeking regularisation of unauthorised constructions in Bengaluru city under the Akrama Sakrama scheme. But it would not process the applications as the matter was before the court.

64 gram panchayats to be upgraded into taluk panchayats

Udupi, Apr 25, 2015, DHNS:

Urban Development Minister Vinay Kumar Sorake said as many as 64 gram panchayats in State would be upgraded into town panchayat.

Speaking after inaugurating various development projects under Suvarna Gramodyaya Yojane here at Hebri, he said the announcement pertaining to upgradation of gram panchayats into town panchayaths would be made prior to gram panchayat polls. 

He said the Congress government in State has ensured fulfillment of 95 assurances out of 165 assurances, the party made during the poll, which was mentioned in the poll manifesto. He said the farmers and the members of SHGs are receiving loans at concessional rates. The programmes like Revenue Adalath, Pension Adalath, Annabhagya, Akrama-Sakrama are all aiding the idea of poverty alleviation.

Calling upon the people in Hebri and surrounding areas not to panic against the implementation of Tiger Reserve project, he said the project would be opposed. The central government has already approved the implementation of the project in this region, however the project would be opposed strongly. 

He said all measures are taken to eliminate the wrong impression created among mass against the recommendations made in the Kasturirangan report. He said the opinion from villagers in the affected areas is compiled and is sent to the central government. 

He said an appeal is made to the central government over considering the reserve forest area and wildlife reserve forest area to implement the recommendations made in the report, he added. He said the multi village drinking water scheme in Hebri would be completed immediately. He said as many as 100 houses would be built in Chara village, he added.

Akrama-Sakrama scheme to be implemented for next one year

THE HINDU BENGALURU, March 3, 2015

The long-pending "Akrama-Sakrama" scheme for regularisation of unauthorised constructions in urban areas, including Bengaluru, will implemented from March 23 for a period of one year.

Owners of buildings can submit applications to the urban local body concerned to regularise illegal constructions and construction of houses in revenue sites in ULBs.

Violations up to 50 per cent and 25 per cent would be regularised in case of residential and commercial properties, respectively.

Minister for Urban Development Vinay Kumar Sorake told presspersons here on Tuesday that the department has directed all ULBs, including Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), to issue applications from March 23. Applications would also be made available in the Urban Development website.

Under the scheme, violations pertaining to setback, floor area ratio, non-conversion of agricultural land and formation of unauthorised layouts and sites under ULBs would be regularised, he said.

All buildings constructed before October 19, 2013, are eligible for regularisation. The BBMP alone expected to mobilise Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 6000 crore by implementing the scheme.

A separate fund would be set up in each ULB to park funds received under the Akrama Sakrama scheme, Mr Sorake said.

Though the State government had issued the final notification under the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act in June last year, it was kept pending owing to a stay order by the Karnataka High Court. The court recently gave the green signal to implement the scheme.

The Congress government was keen on implementing the scheme, particularly in Bengaluru, as the BBMP will go to polls in May this year and it will also earn good revenue to the government.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/akramasakrama-scheme-to-be-implemented-for-next-one-year/article6955138.ece#comments

http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/Akrama-Sakrama-Scheme-Begins-From-March-23-in-Karnataka/2015/03/04/article2697004.ece

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/463326/apply-akrama-sakrama-march-23.html