Bengaluru: Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar chaired a meeting of Karnataka’s Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Development Council at Vikasa Soudha on Thursday, the Social Welfare Department said.
The Chief Minister’s Office said Deputy Chief Minister G. Parameshwara, K.H. Muniyappa, Satish Jarkiholi, Basavanthappa, T. Raghumoorthy, Rudrappa Lamani and P.M. Narendraswamy attended. Chief Secretary Shalini Rajneesh, the chief minister’s political secretary A.S. Ponnanna and senior officials were also present.

At a separate consultation earlier in the day, Shivakumar told SC and ST leaders that spending on development programmes should produce visible results.
