The Hindu : Four locations identified for racecourse: CM

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Wednesday, Mar 12, 2003

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Southern States - Karnataka

Four locations identified for racecourse: CM

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE March 11. The Chief Minister, S.M.Krishna, told the Legislative Assembly today that the Government was identifying land for shifting the racecourse located in the heart of Bangalore.

Replying to a question raised in this regard by R.Ashok (BJP), Mr. Krishna told the House that the Revenue Department had identified four locations and asked the stewards of the Bangalore Turf Club to select one of them. Mr. Krishna said the Government would proceed with acquisition of land after the BTC selected the location. The Government was keen on maintaining the racecourse as a lung space for the City. He said the Government had already handed over the Bangalore Central Jail land to the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike for developing it into a park. The Central Jail had been shifted to the Parappana Agrahara jail complex.

Regularisation

The Chief Minister said that the work on regularisation of the services of 17,070 daily-wage workers in various government departments would be speeded up. Replying to a question raised in this regard by the Leader of the Opposition, Jagadish Shettar, Mr. Krishna said he had received a report in this regard from the Chief Secretary and it would be examined at the time of regularisation of these daily-wage workers.

Mr. Krishna said the High Court had set aside an order directing the Government to confirm the services of those who were appointed on daily wages on or after July 1, 1984 on a writ appeal. He said a Special Leave Petition filed by the daily wage employees' association before the Supreme Court challenging the High Court order was pending. He said the Government was taking steps to fix minimum wages for these workers.

He agreed to direct the Cabinet subcommittee to go into the matter to speed up its work.

Pay and park

Mr. Krishna said that steps would be taken to curb irregularities in the working of the "Pay and park system'' introduced by the BMP in some localities in Bangalore.

He said the BMP had introduced the system on 95 roads and the contract for this year would end on April 1 this year. Steps would be taken to introduce "monthly pass'' system from next year, he added.

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