More funds for health in next budget

Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today said he would allocate more funds for health programmes in the 2010-11 budget as he was desired seeing state’s six crore people hale and hearty.

Speaking at a health check up camp, he said it was the state government’s responsibility to provide good health at reasonable and cheap rates at all government hospitals, particularly to people living below poverty line. His government had released Rs 40 crore for heart patients in the state from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund soon after coming to power, he said.

Medical, education, health, housing, irrigation and development are the top priority areas of the BJP government, he said.

The would try to convert this state as model state for others. People in rural area were suffering from health problems which would be attended to, he said.

Yeddyurappa also said the government had ordered a temporary halt to processing of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s tender projects worth over Rs 3,400 crores in view of the coming elections to the civic body. The process would be resumed after the polls, he said.

The BJP Government had come in for flak from opposition which alleged that the tender processing procedure had been held at midnight in view of the civic polls. He said the opposition allegations were baseless and they were criticising the government for the sake of doing so. The BJP was confident of winning the polls to the civic body, he said.