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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Deepthi Sanjiv | TNN

Karnataka govt to bear treatment cost of Padma Shri awardee

MANGALURU: Social welfare and backward classes welfare minister and Uttara Kannada district minister Kota Shrinivas Poojari said that the state government will bear the treatment cost Padma Shri awardee and Halakki tribal folk artiste Sukri Bommagowda.

Poojari told reporters after visiting the Padma Shri awardee at the KMC hospital on Tuesday evening that chief minister Basavaraj Bommai had called him in the morning and said that her entire hospital expense will be borne by the State government.

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