The third meeting of the Hyderabad Karnataka Region Development Board (HKRDB) has decided to re-appropriate Rs. 104 crore as savings available from micro-works and administrative expenditure and use the same for macro-projects during the current year.
Briefing presspersons about the decision taken in the meeting held in Kalaburagi on Tuesday, Chairman of the HKRDB and Municipal Administration Minister Qamarul Islam said that this included Rs. 85.11 crore for which the legislators of the region had not submitted their proposal of works.
The Minister did not give the details of the legislators who had failed to submit their proposal for the works.
Ballari district legislators topped the list with their failure to provide works for an amount of Rs. 26.46-crore followed by Rs. 23.60 crore-worth works by the legislators from Bidar district, Rs. 21.49-crore worth works by legislators from Raichur district, Rs. 4.88 crore-worth work by the legislators from Kalaburagi district, Rs. 6.37 crore-worth work by the legislators from Yadgir district and Rs. 2.31-crore worth works by the legislators from Koppal district. The meeting gave its approval to a proposal submitted by a Mumbai based-company, which has the expertise in providing soft skills training, to provide training to unemployed youths and college students. The meeting also gave approval to create a web-based information system for the region with online monitoring.
The Minister said that the meeting also gave its approval for sanctioning Rs. 30 crore as its share for the completion of the incomplete airport work in Kalaburagi city. It has also been decided to create a corpus fund of Rs. 58.27 crore for improving technical education in the region and from this amount Rs. 20 crore has been sanctioned for the proposed Government Engineering College in Yelaburga.
Rs. 10 crore will be given to the University of Agriculture Science at Raichur for a Tur Development Research Centre and Technical Research Centre.
The Minister, who completed one year in office as Chairman of the board, said that the term of the Chairman was for two years, which can be extended further.
