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The Karnataka State Policy and Planning Commission has expressed dissatisfaction over district in-charge Ministers, who are also chairpersons of district planning committees, not holding regular meetings of district planning committees despite being instructed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to do so.
What CM said
Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru on Thursday, State Policy and Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson B.R. Patil pointed out that district in-charge Ministers had been appointed as chairpersons of the district planning committees. Soon after appointments, the Chief Minister had instructed them to hold regular meetings of these committees and to prepare draft annual plan. But no such meetings had been held and the commission had not received any minutes of such meetings so far, Mr. Patil said.
He said the meetings of the district planning committees would play a crucial role in strengthening the decentralised system of administration and preparing annual draft plans. But none of the district and taluk committees had held such meetings, he observed.
Letter to CM
In this context, the commission had written to the Chief Minister, requesting him to direct the Chief Secretary to ask all the taluk and district planning committees to hold their meetings in this month and submit draft plans within November, he said.
State Decentralised Plan and Development Committee Deputy chairman D.R. Patil was also present on the occasion.
Published – October 16, 2025 08:30 pm IST
