Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday, December 15, announced that a high-powered committee led by a renowned economic expert of Karnataka will be constituted to study regional imbalances again in terms of development.
A high-powered committee led by D.M. Nanjundappa, in its report in 2002, had identified 39 taluks as most backward, 40 as more backward, and 35 as backward. Of the most backward taluks, 26 were in North Karnataka while the Old Mysore region had accounted for 13.
Announcing the formation of a new high-powered committee, while replying to a debate on the issues related to North Karnataka in the Legislative Assembly on the last day of the winter session of the State legislature in Belagavi, the Chief Minister said the committee would be asked to submit its recommendations within six months.
