Govt Drops Idea Of Regularising Discretionary Quota Allotments

The UF government has dropped the idea of regularising discretionary quota distributions.

This is because it has been unable to work out a political consensus on the petrol pumps, gas connections and government accommodation doled out by the earlier government.

While the government got involved in other pressing issues, there was anger among government servants, who blamed the government for clubbing the out-of-turn house allotment regularisation with that of regularisation of petrol pumps and gas agencies.

Families of over 8,700 government employees of all categories face eviction by the end of this month as they had got the accommodation out of their turn in 1995.

While government employees complain that they were being bracketed with those who were showered favours, the government had its own story to tell.

A cabinet minister argued that those who were allotted petrol pumps and gas agencies (which include were Prime Minister Deve Gowdas grand daughter) had already made investments in land and building and they would suffer financially if the allotments are canceled.

However, there are others who suggest that the infrastructure created, and the agency itself, could be auctioned by the government.

Since the debate could not lead to a consensus on the issue, the idea of bringing a Bill in the current sitting of the monsoon session has fallen through.

This means an imminent eviction of the government house allottees under the orders of the Supreme Court.