“The Union government does not seem to be serious about drought relief works in Karnataka,” Minister for Heavy and Medium Industries M.B. Patil said in Tidagundi village of Vijayapura district on Wednesday.
He was speaking to journalists after touring drought-hit areas in the district.
“In drought relief, the Union government has a bigger responsibility than the State government. But the government does not seem to have realised it. It sent a team to assess the drought situation here. But we do not know what is the report submitted by it. There is no intimation from the Centre about the relief we are entitled to. We do not know what has happened,” he said.
