CM Mounted Pressure On Officials To Arrange For Gas Cylinders For A Mass Feeding Programme In Mysuru
BENGALUR: When hotels were kept waiting for the supply of commercial gas cylinders and home gas consumers had to register for gas cylinders when there was a shortage in gas cylinder distribution, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah reportedly put pressure on the authorities (Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs) to arrange for sufficient number of gas cylinders to prepare food in the mass feeding program as part of a religious event held at Varakodu in Mysuru district on Friday.
Around a hundred thousand people attended the fair, a religious event in Varakodu, which falls under the Varuna Assembly seat represented by Siddaramaiah.
Like the importance that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah attaches to Varkodu, Mysore Hotel Owners Association president Narayan Gowda also told reporters on Saturday that he wants Siddaramaiah to pay attention to the hospitality sector in his home state of Mysore and arrange commercial gas cylinders as soon as possible instead of keeping them waiting for a week.
Narayan Gowda said, “It is not wrong for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to ask the authorities concerned to arrange adequate number of gas cylinders” but asked that “the Chief Minister should show the same seriousness to provide adequate commercial gas cylinders to his home district Mysuru”.
“It would have been better if Siddaramaiah had arranged for a bunch of cylinders (200 gas cylinders) to prepare food for the mass feeding programme, instead of focusing only on the Varkodu function, where around 50 gas cylinders were reportedly used to prepare food,” Gowda said.
“If a load had been arranged, some hotels that needed gas cylinders could have benefited from it,” said the Mysore Hotel Owners Association president. Gowda said that the State Government, especially Chief Minister Siddarmaiah, should take up the problems of the hospitality sector with utmost seriousness from the perspective of Mysuru and the State.
