BSY’s drought report: Where’s it?

Sep 06, 2012 - B. Aravinda Shetty |

Bengaluru

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Have officials at the Chief Minister’s office dumped former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa’s fact-finding report on drought along with recommendations on implementation of relief and rehabilitation schemes?

For, the officers were clueless about the ten-page report by the former chief minister to Mr Jagadish Shettar at the end of his tour of drought-hit districts. Mr Yeddyurappa had asked the state administration to buck up and rush drinking water and fodder to affected areas and even threatened to take to the streets if the Chief Minister ignored his report. Five days after Mr Yeddyurappa submitted his report, an official in the Chief Minister’s secretariat told Deccan Chronicle that the report was yet to reach Mr Shettar. Besides, the Chief Minister principal secretary, Mr Pradeep Singh Kharola, declined to comment on the report. “I am not able to tell anything about the report sent by the former Chief Minister Mr B.S.Yeddyurappa on the drought,” Mr. Singh said.

The personal staff of Mr Yeddyurappa, however, confirmed that a detailed report was sent to the Chief Minister’s office on September 1. “We have sent the report to the Chief Minister’s office,” said the personal assistant of the former chief minister. Meanwhile, sources in Mr Yeddyurappa’s camp said the leader would decide on the second leg of his tour of drought-hid areas after learning about the Chief Minister’s reaction to his report and recommendations.

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