Promise Tracker
INC · Karnataka Legislative Assembly Election 2023 · Est. 1885
Implement Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act to ensure that Builders convey the whole property to Apartment owners including rights in Building and land underneath.
To approve the updated Master Plan 2042 for a sustainable and planned development of the Bengaluru city keeping in mind the needs of all residents.
To complete the peripheral ring road and outer ring road projects on a priority basis to ease traffic congestion in the city.
To provide free bus passes to BBMP pourakarmikas.
To install public charging/ battery swapping points at every metro station and bus stands to provide charging infrastructure.
To introduce e-rickshaws to improve first-mile and last-mile connectivity in the city of Bengaluru.
To add 5000 new electric buses to BMTC’s fleet to reduce pollution and make BMTC more energy efficient.
To constitute a Maha Bengaluru Samsthan involving urban governance experts, industrialists, economists, and environmentalists to help BBMP revive the lost glory of Bengaluru through its administration.
To create a system for seamless integration of Namma Metro, Suburban Rail Projects and Public Transportation Systems named after Puttanna Chettty.
To rename slums as Workers’ Residential Zones and effect proper Housing Projects and give ownership titles of houses and sites.
To bring out a new Policy to develop the residential and commercial infrastructure around the outer ring roads.
To take-up on priority suburban railway project and build proper footpaths.
Construction of tunnel roads in CBD area to decongest traffic on PPP Model.
To establish Mega Bengaluru Planning Committee.
To get all pending metro projects completed under Phase 2, Phase 2A, Phase 2B within one year of coming to power. To strive to get approval and completion of Phase 3 and Phase 4 in the next five years and to extend Metro upto Tumkuru, Vasanta Narasapura Industrial Hub.
To construct North South, South-east long elevated flyovers with necessary wings ease the traffic.
To enact a comprehensive legislation exclusively for the management of BBMP bringing all service providers such as Water Supply and sewage, transport, housing, power and development authorities, under a single agency.
To build international standard Dr. Raj Kumar Film City in Mysuru with Rs.500 Crore Budget.
To rejuvenate Mysugar Factory and to plan and establish new sugar factories in Mandya.
To construct new ring road to Mandya.
To invest Rs.5000 crores for the overall development of Mysuru Karnataka.
To set up two Fish Processing Parks in each of the coastal districts (Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada and Udupi) and to set up required number of cold storage units to store marine products.
To provide a Permanent dredging Machine to Mangaluru Fisheries Port.
To develop Sasihitlu Sea Shore as International Surfing Centre.
To upgrade the NHs through Shiradi, Charmadi and Sampaje into all whether proof 6 lane NHs connecting Mangaluru to Bengaluru and make efforts to improve the Railway Connections.
To undertake programmes for the overall development of fishermen community: Providing appropriate transportation from dock to Market.
To undertake programmes for the overall development of fishermen community: Increasing the diesel quantity upto 500 litres per day.
To undertake programmes for the overall development of fishermen community: 50% subsidy to buy well equipped fishing boats.
To undertake programmes for the overall development of fishermen community: Interest free loan upto Rs. One lakh to all fisher-women.
To undertake programmes for the overall development of fishermen community: Insurance Cover.
To make Mangaluru internationally competitive IT centre to increase employment opportunities and establish an IT Park.
To develop a robust action plan to setup Beach Tourism in Mangalore Udupi and Karwar districts. Coastal Beach Tourism Authority.
To review Kasturi Rangan Report and to frame New Western Ghat Policy for Forest and Environmental protection.
Reserve Rs.100 crores to solve the problems of Yellow Leaf and other deceases affecting Arecanut and to improve marketing and research in this regard.
To construct "Amara Sullia Raithara Horata Bhavana" at sullia to commemorate the 1837 first freedom fight by farmers against the British by allotting land and grant of Rs.50 crores.
To ensure the construction of 6 lane all weather roads connecting all the districts to the Karwar port passing through Vijaypura, Bagalkot, Gadag and Dharwad and to develop Karwara as the second Major Port.
To set up one pulses and dal procurement centre in every district.
To set up a 500-bed super-speciality hospitals in Karwar, Dharwad, Vijayapura and Bagalkot.
To form Mahadayi Irrigation Development Corporation exclusively for the region.
To give a one-time infrastructure grant of Rs 1 Crore and monthly subsidy of Rs 1 lakh to all Kannada schools in the bordering region of Maharashtra.
To convert the existing Kalaburagi-siraguppa-Ballary High way into 6-lane "Suvarna Heddari".
To build 2500 new classrooms and fill up all vacancies of teachers.
To establish of one Mother and Child Special Hospital, Trauma and Emergency Treatment centres in each of the 41 Assembly Constituencies.
To fill up of all vacancies including back log vacancies in Kalayana Karnataka Region within a year of forming the Government by Congress Party.
To establish minimum 100 PUC and one Women’s Degree College in 41 assembly constituencies in Kalyana Karnataka.
To grant Rs.1 crore to every gram panchayat for taking up development projects.
To provide special package for de-silting of Tungabhadra Dam.
To establish a textile park at Bellary with an investment of Rs. 5000 Cr.
To reserve Rs.5,000 Crores every year for the infrastructure development of Kalyana Karnataka.
To provide a grant of up to Rs.20,000 to all Grama Devathe and Theru Habba Festivals celebrated at the village level.
To increase the allowances to Rs.5,000/- per month for meeting the expenditure on Poojadravya and honorarium for small rural temples, and to bring temples of gramadevatas under the purview of Muzarai.
To provide Rs 5,000 honorarium per month to all senior priests [above 60 years of age] of temples, mosques, churches, and other religious institutions after they reach the age of sixty, "Archaka Gowrava Nidhi" Scheme.
To set up a "Dharmika Nidhi," fund of Rs 1,000 Crore, for the restoration and renovation of minor temples and Mathas across the state.
To increase monthly grants to Muzarai temples.
Karnataka has around 1,80,000 temples, of which only 35,500 temples come under the Muzrai department. These temples are neglected by the Muzarai Department. Separate special Pooja Nidhi to be established.
To provide Rs.1 crore grant for the development of the unique Kodava Culture.
To take suitable actions to get the Tulu language declared as Adhikritha Bhashe and to upgrade Tulu Sahitya Academy as Tulu Bhasha Abhivriddhi Pradhikara.
To provide Rs 10,000 honorarium per month to all senior folk artists and performing artists under "Gangu Bai Hanagal".
To set up Rs 30 Crore "C Ashwath Music Fellowship Fund" to honour young lyricists and singers.
To organize a Mega cultural festival called "Karnataka Arunodaya Samavesha" in every assembly constituency to promote local folk arts and music.
To set up Rs 500 Crore revolving fund - Subbiah Naidu Kalabhivruddhi Nidhi - for the revival of ethnic art forms and folk sports.
To create a dedicated fund of Rs 100 Crore "Shasana samshodhana mattu samrakshana Nidhi" - for the restoration, renovation, and promotion of research on inscriptions.
To increase funding to Hampi Kannada University to encourage the holistic research on Kannada literature.
To establish in various universities, Kanakadasa Dasa Sahithya Adhyayana Peetha, Sarvagna Tripadi Sahithya Adhyayana Peeta, Basavanna Vachana Sahithya Adhyayana Peeta, D V Gundappa Navodhaya sahithya Adhyayana Peeta, Pampa Hale Kannada sahithya Adhayayana Peeta, Kumaravyasa Nadukannada Sahithya Adhyayana Peeta, by providing necessary funds.
To start "Nrupatunga Kannada Sahithya Puraskara Abhiyana" to promote 500 young poets and authors in the state by giving them financial assistance of Rs 25,000 to each.
To double the amount of money awarded to poets and authors under the Rajyotsava Award, Pampa Award, Kannada Sahitya Academy awards etc. limiting the number of awardees.
To provide Rupees one lakh annual grant to people pursuing PhDs in Kannada literature and a Rs.25,000 annual grant to people pursuing PG in Kannada literature under "Da Ra Bendre Kannada Bhasha Adhyayana Puraskara Nidhi".
To publish a book on Karnataka’s history and it’s culture called "Hemmeya Beedu Namma Karunadu" and make it a non-test subject in all UG courses.
To give a cash prize of Rs 10,000 to students who score 100% in Kannada in their 10th exam in the name of Rashtra Kavi Manjeshwara Govinda Pai.
To set up the Shivaram Karantha Literature Fund of Rs.100 Crore to encourage Kannada writing, both poetry and prose, among students of classes 8-12.
To Set up Festival Authority of Karnataka.
To create a freedom memorial and theme park at Belgavi to commemorate the 1924 Congress Session - [the session presided over by Mahatma Gandhi].
To evolve a scheme to provide economic security to the artists of Yakshagana, Kambala, drama, music Dhaivaradhana work and other forms of arts.
To establish Yakshagana Pradhikara with Rs.25 Crs annual grants.
To aid and strengthen minority languages like Pali, Prakrit, Tulu, Konkani, Kodava, Byari, and Urdu.
To make special projects to study of Samskrith Literature - Adi Shankaracharya Adhyayana Yojane.
To bring out all Mahakavyas of Kannada Literature in digital form in the Gamaka format.
To revive and develop Bhuvanagiri in Siddapur taluk as a tourist destination with a Rs 10 Crore grant, as it is the only place in the state where a temple is dedicated to Kannada Mathe Bhuvaneshwari Devi.
To create a Rs 500 Crore "Thayi Bhuvaneshwari Monuments Fund" to ensure the proper maintenance of all ASI sites in Karnataka.
To build a state-of-the-art museum and theme park dedicated to Veera Madakari Nayaka in Chitradurga.
To release Rs.100 crores to establish Basavapatha - the institution for Social Inclusion and Religious Ethics - in Kudalasangama.
To set up the Aluru Venkata Rao Fund of Rs 100 Crore to promote Kannada in the digital space.
To start "Kuvempu Sahithya Puraskara Abhiyana" to promote 500 young poets and authors in the state by giving them financial assistance of Rs 25,000 to each.
To encourage and develop Kannada Language, literature, education and culture in 63 Taluks in Border areas and in 6 adjoining states where there are large number of Kannadigas, annual allotment of Rs.200 crores.
To develop Kuppalli, the birth place of Rastra Kavi Kuvempu a nature tourist center make special project of Rs.100 Crs.
To identify 1,000 budding Sports talents every year from across the state and provide them financial assistance.
To start an exclusive Sports University in Mysuru and make Karnataka a World-Class sports hub. And, to build an International Sports Complex in Mysuru exclusively for traditional sports.
To allot Rs.2000 crores per year for sports.
To Constitute a Youth Commission to facilitate the overall development of youth.
To ensure 80% in jobs in Karnataka to local people in both Public and Private Sector.
To provide free bus passes and train tickets to the candidates taking up competitive examinations.
To establish Bharatha Ratna CNR Fund with 500 crores corpus for basic scientific research for youth.
To help in setting up industries and those permanently relocating by creating revolving fund of Rs.1000 Crs.
To Create a separate Ministry to take care of the affairs of NRI Kannadigas.
To assist establishing Advocate Bhavans in Corporation, cities and District Headquarters.
Establishment of a Journalist Welfare Fund with seed money of Rs.500 Crores.
To make special scheme for providing land, house and site to ex-servicemen and to exempt from House Tax, Water Tax and upto Rs.2,000 Electricity Bill for their own residences.
To push for ONE RANK ONE PENSION for Ex-Servicemen.
To establish "Field Marshal General Kariappa Ex-servicemen Development Board with Rs.500 Crores revolving fund to provide financial assistance to ex-servicemen to upto Rs.10 lakhs @ 5% interest to start self-employment/entrepreneurship.
To Set up Karnataka Institute of Speech and Hearing, similar to the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing in all revenue divisions of Karnataka.
To provide free bus pass and to one accompanying person.
To create a Rs 50 Crore "Vidhya Deepa Nidhi" disabled youth scholarship fund to ensure access to higher education both in India and abroad.
To provide Rs.3 lakhs interest free loan to take up self-employment to the diabled women.
To increase the one-time subsidy provided to senior citizens from Karnataka for pilgrimages to Kashi, Mathura and Kailash Mansarovar Yatra.
To offer free Pilgrimage to one of the 15 holy places of Karnataka and one of the 10 holy places of India once in two years.
To create Sharavana Kumara Senior citizens welfare fund - Rs.1,000 Crore.
To establish a Gig Workers Welfare Board with allotment of Rs.3,000 Crs as seed money for revolving fund.
To develop dedicated hawker zones in all district HQs and to provide one-time financial assistance of Rs. 20,000 to street vendors to set up their shops in these zones.
To set up Auto Drivers Board and Taxi Drivers Welfare Board funding with Rs. 50 Crs to each and encouragement for self-employment.
Insurance cover of Rs. 10 Lakh to each.
To offer Hazardous pay.
To regularise all 25,000 Pourakarmikas with all the relevant facilities. recruitment additional Pourakarmikas.
To provide Self-employment grants for taking up small business to all Gender Minorities upto Rs.2 lakhs.
To establish a Mangalamukhi Welfare Board by allotting Rs.200 crores annually.
To allot Rs.15 crores to start Kashmiri Culture Centre. Allotting one time grant of Rs.25 crore and annual grant of Rs. One crore from the Department of Kannada Culture.
The allocation of funds for the minority welfare - Muslim, Christian, Jain, Buddhists and others, would be increased to Rs. 10,000 Cr.
To provide 50% subsidy on buying electric scooters to frontline health workers namely ANM, Anganwadi and ASHA workers.
To provide Rs.50 lakhs grant to the Grama Panchayaths which elect women as the Chairperson, over looking specific reservations.
To nurture 5000 Stree Shakti micro-enterprises over 5 years and to encourage them to take up 21st century needs like food processing, catering, mobile canteens, solid waste management, parking management.
To increase allocation of funds to Stree Shakthi Sanghas.
To support 5,000 women entrepreneurs every year for entrepreneurial development.
To provide Rs 30,000 per annum to weavers with spinning wheels to modernize their looms.
To give special focus to the development of listed marginal communities and to establish Alemari Budakattu Board for this purpose with Rs 1,000 crores.
The most backward communities are under Category-I. 12% of the population is under this category. A comprehensive plan for their total development will be envisaged.
To establish Tigala Development Board.
To enhance monthly fellowships from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 for backward class students enrolled to PhD in state universities.
To provide scholarships every year to 1000 SC/ST/OBC students, who secure PG seat at foreign universities.
To provide collateral-free loans up to 10 lakhs at 3% interest to 50,000 OBC entrepreneurs.
To increase the grants to all development Corporations and Boards.
To constitute Development Corporations for the welfare of Tigala, Madiwala, Savitha, Uppara, Balija and Alemari Budakatu communities and provide dedicated budget.
To establish Micro Backward Comminutes Development Corporation with annual budget of Rs 500 Cr, a total of Rs 2500 Cr in 5 years.
To establish Brahmashri Narayana Guru Development Corporation with annual budget of Rs 500 Cr, a total of Rs 2500 Cr in 5 years.
To setup Rs 5000 crore revolving fund "Socio-economic welfare Fund" for the overall welfare of OBC communities involved in sculpting, pottery, weaving and other traditional occupations.
To send 100 people from the leather based traditional artisans abroad for better training.
To construct 50 new Ekalavya residential schools in the next five years.
To establish 100 Aranya Kendras in tribal areas to help and guide them in primary processing and value additions for their produce.
To increase the insurance maturity amount given under the Bhagya Lakshmi scheme Rs 3 Lakhs to SC/ST families.
To identify youths belonging to Pambada, Nalike, Parava and Kudbi of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts and to ensure 100% housing and also to train boys and girls for jobs.
To open Literature, cultural and Arts academy under Kannada and Culture department for 46 castes of SC and ST, Nomadic and Semi-nomadic and OBC Category-I.
To create a new "Smt. Savitri Bai Pule Education Scheme" to give monthly incentives of Rs 150 for students from 1st Std. to 5th Standard, Rs 300 for 6th to 10th std. students to be given. The incentive to be transferred to the bank account of the mother of the student.
To set up Rs 1000 Crore revolving fund - "Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Entrepreneurship Fund" - for organizing entrepreneurship development and incubation programs for SC entrepreneurs.
To take action to fill all the backlog vacancies within one year.
To provide every year, subsidy and loan with 3% interest to 25,000 youth of SC/ST communities under Airavata Scheme, for purchase of Taxi, Goods Vehicle, three wheelers, four wheelers and other vehicles for self employment.
To provide house to all SC/ST families in the next five years. Government to build houses for SC/STs.
To present the report of Justice Sadashiva Commission in the first session of the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council and the Congress Party will strive to get justice to all the sub-groups and urge the Union Government to accept it.
To release the Socio-Economic caste censes conducted by the congress government and accord social justice accordingly.
To increase the celing and reservation from 50% to 75% to accommodate the hopes and aspirations of SC/ST/OBC/Minority and other communities like Lingayat and Vokkliggas. The Congress party committed to increase reservation for SCs from 15% to 17%, for STs 3% to 7%, and restore minority reservation 4% and increase reservations for Lingayats, Vokkaliggas and other communities and to pursue for inclusion in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution.
To increase State Government subsidy of Rs 3.5 lakhs to housing projects of the poor.
To waive off all Housing Loans under various Government Housing Schemes as a onetime measure.
To ensure that all homeless families in Karnataka have a dwelling house under the existing schemes, within 5 years.
Puneeth Rajkumar Heart Health Scheme - To offer subsidy to Doctors/Clinics/Nursing Home to buy DEFIBRILLATOR (AED).
To establish one Jayadeva like Heart Hospital, Kidwai like Cancer Hospital and NIMHANS type Psychiatric Hospitals in each revenue Division.
To ensure that everyone gets the medicine at a reasonable price, 10 Kasturba Aushadha Kendras in each Taluk.
To extend Rashtriya Swasthya Bhima Yojna and bring all the health schemes under one umbrella and extend it to gig workers.
To establish along all the national highways, a fully equipped trauma centre in every 100 KMs.
To fill up vacancies of staff and doctors in all Government Hospitals.
To bear the college fee of 10% of the government school students on merit who study 6-12th class in Karnataka and secure an MBBS/IIT/IIM/Engineering seat on passing competitive examinations, in any college in India.
To upgrade 2500 Government Schools as smart schools in the state.
To increase the income limit from Rs 3.5 lakhs to Rs 5 Lakhs under RTE Act for eligibility for admission to schools.
To establish Karnataka State Educational Financial Corporation with a seed money of Rs 2000 Crores for the purpose of bringing all State Scholarships in respect of all the categories under one umbrella for speedy and quick disbursement.
The congress will restore the true values of Bharath and Karnataka and Scientific Temper in the text books to make the students evolved and complete.
To regulate the fees in the schools and to reduce the fees of BPL Students.
To fill up all the vacancies of teachers and staff in Government and aided Schools/Colleges within one year.
To rejuvenate existing Indira Canteens and extend them throughout the state.
To stop the mining Mafia and stop the loot of natural resources and make suitable changes to mining laws.
To launch a rural minibus program in collaboration with public participation.
To increase the KSRTC fleet - to 15000 Busses in five years.
To increase the fleet strength of BMTC - to 10000 in five years.
To encourage E-vehicles - To make it compulsory to install E-Vehicle Charging points in apartments. Installation of E-Vehicle Charging points in all important junctions and Highways.
To ensure that the strength of Electric Buses is increased sharply so that within 2 years 50% of the buses are Electricity operated.
To encourage more mega Solar Parks, to produce additional generation of 5000 MW Power.
To establish EV charging infrastructure and battery manufacturing units with 50% exemption in SGST and special subsidy.
To Offer 25% subsidy upto Rs 3 lakhs for installing solar appliances for domestic use.
To help small self-employed hotel / Bakery / Sweet Stall sector by offering loan up-to Rs 10 Lakhs with 6% interest.
To give Industry Status to Hotels with more than 20 employees.
To provide 6% interest subvention for loans up to Rs 5 lakh for any infrastructural development by home-stay owners and to review the legal provisions.
To provide loans at 5% interest rate and taxi permit to 50 youth in each constituency.
To create a revolving fund of Rs 5,000 crores for tourism development in the state.
To Reduce stamp duty to MSME for hypothecation and equitable mortgage for bank loans.
To set up a Welfare Fund worth Rs 1,000 Crore to provide low-interest loans for small traders and shopkeepers to help revive key sectors of the local economy.
To offer Start up subsidy upto Rs 25 lakhs and soft loan upto Rs One crore at 6% interest.
To create a Task Force to assist exporters in improving supply chains, market accessibility, and handholding for increasing exports.
To create a Jean Capital of India in Bellary to boost exports to expand employments opportunities by creating an Apparel park by investing Rs 5000 Cr.
To offer SGST concessions to 2 wheeler and 3 wheeler electric vehicles within urban limits as pollution free Green mobility solution.
To reopen Brahmavar Vani Vilas Co-operative sugar factory.
To upgrade through Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) with all the facilities - Tech parks in Mysuru, Mangalore, and Hubli-Dharwad with the prospect of creating one lakh employment under IT.
To provide start-up fund of Rs 10 crores to each constituency.
To develop the industrial infrastructure in the border areas of the state - Talapady (Kerala), Nippani (Maharashtra), Bidar (Maharashtra/Telangana), Sarjapura (Tamil Nadu) and Srinivasapura (Andhra Pradesh) - and establish a Border Industrial Development Board with the investment of Rs 5000 Crs in five years.
To Establish a Gold and Diamond Park of International Standard in Mangaluru in a secure zone with all amenities to attract tourism and trade on par with Dubai.
To provide Rs 1000 crores for cleaning all important rivers in Karnataka (Kali, Bedthi, Krishna, Tungabhadra, Malaprabha, Bhima, Cauvery, Kabini, Shimsha, Arkavathi, Yagachi, Kumaradhara and Nethravathi Rivers) over a period of 5 years.
To undertake desilting of Thungabadra Dam on priority to ensure the 200 TMC of storage is not lost and additional area of agricultural area is brought under irrigation.
Rs 500 crore will be allocated in the first cabinet meeting [for the Mahadayi project].
Action will be taken to obtain necessary clearances from the Union Government: 100% of the Mahadayi water allocated to Karnataka will be utilised; all the components of Mahadayi river diversion projects shall be completed in the next 5 years with a total outlay of Rs 3000 Cr; priority will be given to drinking water, agriculture, and then to electricity generation; responsible and secure rehabilitation of project affected families; latest state-of-the-art technology for the construction of Kalasa and Banduri dams.
To pursue and complete them within five years and provide budgetary support. New Projects: Mekedatu (Project Cost Rs 9,000 Cr), Mahadayi (Rs 3,000 Cr). Existing projects: Upper Bhadra, Upper Krishna, Yethinahole and Varahi.
To Spend Rs 1.5 lakh crores for irrigation in the next 5 years (2023 to 2028).
"Matsya Ashraya Yojane" - Ensure Housing to all economically disadvantaged fishermen.
To arrange dredging at the points of anchorages in the jetties/ports or places where the fishing boats are being anchored.
Matsya Mahithi Kendra - To establish a state-of-the-art satellite mapping centre at UDUPI.
To provide financial assistance of Rs 10,000 to all the Nadadoni fishermen.
Mathsya Asha Kirana Yojane - To provide Rs 6,000 to all the marine fishermen as a lean period allowance during the fishing holiday.
Matsya Bhagya - To provide 500 litres of tax-free diesel every year for deep sea fishing.
To provide interest-free loans of up to Rs 3 lakhs to fisherwomen.
To establish a Rs 5000 Crore fund "Matsya Sarvodaya Nidhi" to improve the fishing sector as a whole.
Matsyakranthi - to make projects to rise in five years Rs 12,000 Crore Blue Economy based on income from Fisheries.
To provide interest-free loans to women to buy 2 cows or buffalos.
To purchase cow-dung at Rs 3 per KG and establish compost/manure centers in villages involving rural women/Youth.
Runamuktha Kurigahi Yojane: To waive the Loan upto Rs 1 lakh of all sheep and goat rearing farmers.
Ksheera Kranti Credit Cards - To provide all dairy farmers with Ksheera Kranti Credit Cards with a credit limit of Rs 50,000.
Ksheeradhare - To increase the per litre milk subsidy for all dairy farmers from Rs 5 to Rs 7.
To establish Kurigahi Samvardhana Nidhi - Rs 1,000 Crore fund for sheep rearing.
Pashu Bhagya - To give loans upto Rs 3 lakhs at zero interest to dairy farmers to purchase superior Cow/Buffalo breed.
To implement Ksheera Kranthi - Mission 1.5 Crore litres of milk production per day.
To provide Rs 3 lakh interest-free loans to all silk yarn reelers.
To create "Sericulture Stability Revolving Fund" with Rs 2000 Crores as initial deposit.
To create a brand for Coffee in Karnataka.
To provide special package for development of floriculture in Bengaluru, Ramanagara and Chikkaballapura by investing Rs 500 crores.
To assist the grape growers by providing subsidies - allotment of Rs 500 Crore.
To establish an Agriculture Price Commission in each revenue division.
To provide possession certificates to the farmers of Malnad.
To offer reasonable compensation during drought and famine situations for the loss of agricultural produce. To postpone the recovery of distressed loans and waive complete interest.
To create Prakruthi Vikopa Nidhi - a permanent fund - by creating an initial corpus fund of Rs 5000 crores.
To form self-help group for rural agriculturist women and provide Rs 3 lakhs interest free revolving loan.
To reintroduce subsidy for installation of solar pump-sets with 75% of the cost as subsidy.
Jala Chethana Andolana - 100% subsidy to drip and sprinkler irrigation.
A new development board "Negila Tuditha" with seed money of Rs 500 crores to focus on landless agricultural labourers and tenant farmers.
Savayava Saradaara Yojane to promote Organic farming investing Rs 2500 crores in five years.
To repeal the anti farmer laws enacted by BJP Government and to withdraw all politically motivated cases against farmers.
To promote Agro based village industries run by rural women by investing Rs 200 crores.
To increase interest free soft loans to the farmers from Rs 3 lakhs to 10 lakhs and with minimum interest of 3% upto Rs 15 lakhs and to reimburse the differential interest by Government.
Committed to AICC session held at Raipur the congress party would implement guarantees of MSP based on the report of Agricultural price fixation commission, in consultation with the farmers representatives to the Agricultural and Horticultural produce.
Krishi Sarvodaya Nidhi - To allocate Rs 1.50 lakh crores in five years for modernization of agriculture, subsidy, loan and insurance.
To frame rules to double the FAR for buildings in II tier cities to enterprises which generate employment.
To amend Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act, 1972 to provide for conveyance of property and land to group of owners.
To take up construction of apartments with all facilities, regularise all slums, provide them title deeds and re name the slums as Shramika Vasathi Samuchhaya.
To extend Bengaluru's TenderSURE road model to cities with a population more than 10 Lakh.
Mahatma Gandhi Gram Swaraj Scheme - To invest Rs 50 thousand crores in five years to improve facilities in villages, to provide clean drinking water, sanitation, basic education, health and all weather roads.
To set up high-speed WiFi hotspots in every Panchayath.
The Congress Party is committed to take firm and decisive action against individuals and organisations spreading hatred amongst communities on grounds of caste or religion. We believe that law and Constitution is sacrosanct and can not be violated by individuals and Organisations like Bajrang Dal, PFI or others promoting enmity or hatred, whether among majority or minority communities. We will take decisive action as per law including imposing a ban on any such organisations.
To reduce registration fee concerning Gift and Will on landed property within the family.
To set up a dedicated fund of Rs 2000 crore to modernise all the existing courts of the state.
To establish a seed fund of Rs 200 crores to create infrastructure in Cyber Crimes and financial investigations.
To provide housing to all the police personnel within five years.
To provide special allowance of Rs 5000 per month to police officials on night duty and one month's extra pay per year.
To increase recruitment of women in Police Force to 33% of the total strength with at least 1% reservation for Gender Minorities.
To ensure that the works begin within 90 days of the issue of the work order, get the work completed within the time specified in the contract and settle the bills of the contractors within the time-frame of contractual agreement.
To abolish corruption in public works and to create a transparent tender system in PWD, Rural Development, Irrigation, Urban Development and Power sector by enacting a special law to punish the perpetrators of corruption.
To enhance honorarium to Midday Meal Cooks from Rs 3,600 to Rs 6,000.
To provide ASHA workers with a fixed monthly honorarium of Rs 5,000 to Rs 8,000.
To increase monthly salary of Anganwadi Workers from Rs 11,500 to Rs 15,000 with retirement benefit of Rs 3 Lakhs on premature death or retirement, and Mini Anganwadi workers from Rs 7,500 to Rs 10,000 with retirement benefit of Rs 2 Lakhs on premature death or retirement.
Giving due weightage to the contractual and guest faculties by bringing suitable amendments to the recruitment rules.
To regularize the services of the presently working in-source employees under Health and Family Welfare Department on the lines of the actions being taken by the Congress Governments of Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh.
To sympathetically consider extension of OPS to the pensionable government employees who joined service since 2006.
To fill up approved vacancies in all Government Departments within one year.
To make all activities connected with procurements, developmental and infrastructural activities and recruitments transparent and accountable.
Rs 3,000 per month to unemployed graduates and Rs 1,500 per month to unemployed diploma holders (aged 18-25) for up to two years.
10 kg of free rice per month to every member of a Below Poverty Line household (5 kg under the central NFSA plus an additional 5 kg from the state).
200 units of free electricity per month to every household.
Rs 2,000 per month to the woman head of every family.
Free travel for women on public transport buses across Karnataka.
