Ignored by local admin, thousands flock to Karnataka CM’s ‘Janaspandana’ to get grievances redressed

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There was a road previously but it was washed away when Karanja dam overflowed in a few years ago, Vijayswami, a priest, told ThePrint Thursday...

With the general election just around the corner, the states Congress government appears to be leaving nothing to chance, holding a Janaspandana, or peoples court event, at the secretariat Thursday the second such event in six months...

According to a statement issued by the Chief Ministers Office Thursday evening, it saw 20,000 people, with the government receiving around 11,000 applications by the end of it. t ..

Its been nearly eight months since she and her older relative, Nazia Begum, registered for the Congress governments monetary benefit scheme, Gruha Laksmi, but she is yet to receive any financial assistance.. Announced by the Congress government before the assembly election last May and launched in August, the Gruha Laksmi scheme promises financial assistance of Rs 2,000 to women heads of low-income families...

Among them was Pattaraju, the son of a freedom fighter and a farmer from Channarayapatna in Hassan district, who travelled three hours for the event to seek compensation for four acres of land he said the government had taken away...

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