Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah who chaired a Cabinet meeting on Friday said that the five guarantees promised by the Congress ahead of Assembly elections will be implemented in the present financial year.
"We held a cabinet meeting today. We discussed all five promises thoroughly. We have decided that all five guarantees will be implemented in the present financial year," Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah told reporters after the Cabinet meeting.
The five 'main' guarantees, which Congress promised to fulfil after coming to power in Karnataka, were:
1. 200 units of free power to all households (Gruha Jyoti)
2. Rs 2,000 monthly assistance to the woman head of every family (Gruha Lakshmi)
3. 10 kg of rice free to every member of a BPL household (Anna Bhagya)
4. Rs 3,000 every month for unemployed graduate youth and Rs 1,500 for unemployed diploma holders (both in the age group of 18-25) for two years (Yuva Nidhi) and
5. Free travel for women in public transport buses (Uchita Prayana).
Adressing a press briefing, here after the Cabinet meeting, Siddaramaiah said that the implementation (of guarantee about 200 units of free electricity) will begin from July 1.
On May 20, Siddaramaiah took oath as the Chief Minister along with DK Shivakumar who took oath as Deputy CM. (with ANI inputs)
