BENGALURU, 7 AUG

The State Cabinet approved 17 Bills, including the Greater Bengaluru (Amendment) Bill. All these Bills are likely to be tabled in the legislature and passed during the upcoming session from 11 August.

The Cabinet cleared a Bill that aims to amend certain sections of the Land Revenue Act and Land Reforms Act.

The Cabinet also approved the Registration (A) Bill to ensure due diligence in public interest is undertaken by the Sub-Registrar at the time of registration of property, to integrate property software to prevent illegal registration of properties in urban areas and to simplify property registration.

The Cabinet also cleared Karnataka Compliance Decriminalisation Amendment of Provisions Bill aimed at decriminalising and rationalising offences to further enhance trust based governance for ease of living and doing business and the Karnataka Ports (Landing and Shipping Fees) (Amendment) Bill to revise the fees once in three year, and if fees are not revised once in three year, then, to give the power to Government to issue a notification to revise (increase or decrease) fees at such percentage.

The Cabinet has also agreed to remove the rule that non-Muslim minority educational institutions must have 50 per cent of students from the respective minority category, through an amendment to the Karnataka Educational Institutions (recognition of Minority Education Institution Terms and Conditions) (Technical Education) Rules, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister HK Patil said on Thursday.

However, the Cabinet deferred a decision on the Karnataka Rohith Vemula (Prevention of Exclusion or Injustice) (Right to Education and Dignity) Bill.

"We are yet to have one consultation meeting, that's why we have deferred it to the next meeting," the minister said.

The draft of the Rohith Vemula Bill reportedly proposes compensation of up to Rs 1 lakh for students who face caste-based discrimination in higher education institutions, and a jail term of one year and a fine of Rs 10,000 for guilty.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had written to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in April, urging the State government to enact "the Rohith Vemula Act" to ensure that no one faces caste-based discrimination in the education system.

Rohith Vemula, a Dalit student, allegedly died by suicide due to caste-based discrimination in Hyderabad in 2016.

Administrative approval was given to purchase a total of 1,103 electric four-wheeled vehicles through Shri Devaraj Urs Development Corporation at an estimated cost of Rs 33.09 crores and distribute them through 11 corporations to enable unemployed people belonging to backwards classes to start food kiosks.

Administrative approval was given for the revised estimate of Rs 87.60 crores for the construction of 15 women's college buildings for the education of minority girls in 15 districts of the State.