Budget bounty for Mysuru
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Budget bounty for Mysuru

March 4, 2022

Chief Minister Bommai presents maiden budget

  • Mysore Airport runway to be extended
  • Chamundi Hill to get Ropeway
  • High speed rail corridor between Mysuru-Chennai
  • Mysuru – Srirangapatna – Hassan – Belur – Halebeedu tourism circuit
  • Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality (AR/VR) materials for Mysore Palace
  • Global Technology Centre plug and play facility at KSOU
  • Financial assistance to Shakthidhama at Chamundi foothill
  • Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Sauharda Vidhyarthi Nilaya in Mysuru
  • Mini clusters for Agarbathi in Mysuru
  • Rs. 50 crore for MySugar factory restoration

Bengaluru: The Budget Session of Karnataka Legislature began today with Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who also holds the Finance portfolio, presenting his maiden budget on the first day at 12.30 pm. It is a bounty for Mysuru and Bommai announced a slew of projects.

The CM chaired a Cabinet meeting prior to the presentation where the State Budget 2022-23 was approved. This is likely to be the last full-fledged budget before the 2023 Assembly polls. The 2023-24 budget may be presented early next year, but it will be a vote-on-account considering the elections.

Chamundi Hill Ropeway, tourism circuits

The CM announced a slew of projects for Mysuru apart from granting Rs. 89 crore to modernise the K.R. Hospital. A proposal will be sent under ‘Parvatamala Scheme of Central Government’ for construction of a Ropeway in Chamundi Hill of Mysuru and Mullayanagiri Dattapeeta Betta of Chikkamagaluru to promote Tourism. The runway of Mysore Airport will be extended with assistance from the Central Government, the CM added.

Hampi – Badami – Aihole – Pattadakallu Vijayapura tourist circuit and Mysuru Srirangapatna – Hassan – Belur – Halebeedu tourism circuit will be developed under the Public Private Partnership model to promote tourism, CM announced.

“It is proposed to create Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) materials for 15 tourist sites of the State at a cost of Rs. 15 crore. This will be implemented for Mysore Palace on a pilot basis,” he said. Better services will be made available to youths by converging various youth centric schemes in the State. This has already been implemented in Mysuru, he noted.

Global Technology Centre plug and play

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‘The Global Technology Centre plug and play facility’ will be established at the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) in Mysuru at an expenditure of Rs. 30 crore in a period of two years. In the year 2022-23, Rs.10 crore will be provided for this purpose,” Bommai said.

Further, the CM said that ‘Beyond Bengaluru Cluster Seed Fund for Start-ups’ will be established in Mysuru, Mangaluru and Hubballi on the lines of cluster managed by Karnataka Digital Economy Mission at an expenditure of Rs.20 crore. A grant of Rs. 12 crore will be provided for this project in the current year.

The Central Government is preparing a Detailed Project Report (DPR) through the National High Speed Railway Project to construct 460 km long Chennai-Bengaluru-Mysuru high speed rail corridor. The State Government will collaborate with the Central Government to implement this project, he said.

Hostels will be started for working women of Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Minorities in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Hubballi-Dharwad and Kalaburagi cities by the Women and Child Development Department.

The State Government would provide assistance to Karnataka Cancer Institute in Dharwad, Amrut Shishu Nivas Mother and Child Super Speciality Hospital in Basavanagudi, Shri Niraji Bhuva Vishwastha Nidhi in Basavakalyan and Shakthidhama in Mysore in recognition of their contribution in Social Services.

Multistoried hostel complexes

For the first time, multistoried hostel complexes each of 1,000 capacity will be constructed through Public Works Department at a cost of Rs.250 crore in the State’s educational centres of Belagavi, Hubballi-Dharwad, Kalaburagi, Mangaluru and Mysuru to encourage higher education in the children of Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribe, Backward, Minority and other classes under new scheme “Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Sauharda Vidhyarthi Nilaya”, the CM said.

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With a target to augment income, business, employment and exports, micro clusters of leather toys in Chikkaballapur, embroidery in Dharwad, Kowdi and Kinhala toys in Koppal, agarbathi in Mysuru, carpets in Navalgund, toys in Channapatna and Sarees in Ilakal-Guledagudda, Belgaum-Shahapur, Sidlaghatta and Molakalmuru will be developed, he added.

“Our Government has decided to restart the Mysugar factory which has stopped its operations since 2019-20. Government will run the Mysugar factory on an experimental basis for the next two years. Rs.50 crore will be provided for repair of machineries. Funds for working capital will be raised from financial institutions,” he said.

Mekedatu

After getting approval from the Centre, the State Government will go ahead with the Mekedatu project. Rs. 1,000 crore fund has been allocated for this drinking water project.

Also, the first phase of the Yettinahole project will be completed and Rs. 3,000 crore fund for works related to the project has been allocated, the CM said.

A well-equipped training centre in relation to all production activities of silk will be established in Public Private Partnership in K.R. Pet of Mandya District, Chief Minister Bommai announced.

7 COMMENTS ON THIS POST To “Budget bounty for Mysuru”

  1. Mann Ki Baat! says:

    So, moustached Basavaraj Bommai is expanding Mysore airport to help Wayanad Keralites to get access to link with their Gold smuggling cousins in Gulf States, when Emirates airlines connects Mysore to Gulf States!
    More Malayalees will arrive and build houses in Mysore and nearby town and villages. Mysore-Chennai high speed link will bring in more Tamils too.
    Mysore then will become a massively populated cityh.
    Chamundi Hill Rope way? Not many will use it, as Mysoeans are gripped with car culture, and te hill will flatten in years.

  2. PNR says:

    Only tall talk. Mr. Bommai, please first spend on roads and education system. You are only creating more trouble for peace loving Mysoreans. When will Mysore get a good and stable administration I wonder.

  3. Nataraj says:

    We have already lost our jobs to outsiders as mentioned in the other comment and we have no place to go unless our state supports us by fixing minimum quota of 50% for kannadigas.

  4. Questo says:

    Bommai is hell bent expanding Mysore in a bad way, bringing in Jet liners from Gulf States, not from the Western cities-Kempegowda International Airport is suited for it. This Airport will be the defacto destination for Gulf State airliners.
    I agree with the above poster that Mysore-Chennai high speed trains plus this expanded Airport will suck in Tamils and Malayalees in very large numbers from their overcrowded states and cities to Mysore. Wayanad is just under 3 hours drive and This airport will serve very well for Malayalees who at present smuggle gold through Kerala airports -bribing customs with gold ingots, will turn their attention to this Airport soon. These are criminal gands . Mysore is in for a shock when Malayalees and Tamils swamp the cities and towns.

  5. Questo says:

    Bommai is hell bent expanding Mysore in a bad way, bringing in Jet liners from Gulf States, not from the Western cities-Kempegowda International Airport is suited for it. This Airport will be the defacto destination for Gulf State airliners.
    I agree with the above poster that Mysore-Chennai high speed trains plus this expanded Airport will suck in Tamils and Malayalees in very large numbers from their overcrowded states and cities to Mysore. Wayanad is just under 3 hours drive and This airport will serve very well for Malayalees who at present smuggle gold through Kerala airports -bribing customs with gold ingots, will turn their attention to this Airport soon. These are criminal gands . Mysore is in for a shock when Malayalees and Tamils swamp the cities and towns.

  6. Captain Jack Sparrow says:

    What has happened to the promise of Bommai, when he visited Mysuru, after he became the CM, tht he will redevelop Lansdowne Building and Devaraja market to their former glory? There is no budget money for them”
    There goes the ambition of @Barmy Shenoy to develop Devaraja Market as ‘the Grandbazaar like in Istanbul’? We get that that idea was barmy like others by Shnoey, was for attention-seeking purposes!
    Malyalees and Tamils are preparing to swamp the Greater Mysuru with immense glee to settle in vacant lands! The Airport as posters said will connect to the Gulf States and the gold smuggling and other nefarious activities of criminal Malyalee gangs will arrive to Mysore via Wayanad!
    The customs officer at expanded Mysuru airport, will have gold ingots given to them to turn a blind eye to the smuggling.
    It is time for @Gowri Sathya to write another book on the loss of Mysuru as the Royal City!
    Mysoreans start learning Malayalam and Arabic, as minor Sheikhs will arrive too Through Emirates airlines to oversea this city developed as a minor Bangkok!!

  7. Jhunjhunwalla says:

    Hello Mysoreans
    Stop this airport expanding nonsense, before your city becomes a centre of criminal activities bythose Keralites, who have well developed those activities in UAE and Oman.
    My native Mumbai suffered from them, until Keralites developed those international airports in Kerala linking the Middle East countries.These are ruthless Muslims trading in illegalsubstances.

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