<p>Declaring its commitment to provide a "clean, efficient and transparent" administration, the Congress government in Karnataka today said it was taking action to "adopt" the Centre's Lokpal Act that provides for formation of an anti-graft ombudsman.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"My government welcomes the Lokpal bill of the government of India and action is being taken to adopt it in our state," Governor H R Bhardwaj told the joint session of state legislature in his customary address outlining priorities and initiatives of the eight-month-old Siddaramaiah government.<br /><br />Last December, Parliament had passed the Lokpal and Lokayukta Act that seeks to establish a Lokpal at the central level and asks states to set up Lokayuktas within a year's time from the date of notification of the law, leaving the format to be decided by the state assemblies.<br /><br />He said the government had also constituted a committee for strengthening, tracking and simplifying governance under the chairmanship of the Law Minister to make administration transparent, accountable and corruption-free.<br /><br />Bhardwaj also told the members that the government had decided to provide laptops and electronic notepads to pre-university students, free of cost to enable them to get access to knowledge through the Internet.<br /><br />In another initiative, Karnataka government has targeted creation of 10 lakh direct jobs in the next five years by upgrading the manufacturing sector under a new industrial policy to be unveiled in April, he said.<br /><br />Bhardwaj said the new industrial policy to be formulated and implemented from April 1 would ensure balanced and integrated industrialisation of the state. </p>
<p>Declaring its commitment to provide a "clean, efficient and transparent" administration, the Congress government in Karnataka today said it was taking action to "adopt" the Centre's Lokpal Act that provides for formation of an anti-graft ombudsman.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"My government welcomes the Lokpal bill of the government of India and action is being taken to adopt it in our state," Governor H R Bhardwaj told the joint session of state legislature in his customary address outlining priorities and initiatives of the eight-month-old Siddaramaiah government.<br /><br />Last December, Parliament had passed the Lokpal and Lokayukta Act that seeks to establish a Lokpal at the central level and asks states to set up Lokayuktas within a year's time from the date of notification of the law, leaving the format to be decided by the state assemblies.<br /><br />He said the government had also constituted a committee for strengthening, tracking and simplifying governance under the chairmanship of the Law Minister to make administration transparent, accountable and corruption-free.<br /><br />Bhardwaj also told the members that the government had decided to provide laptops and electronic notepads to pre-university students, free of cost to enable them to get access to knowledge through the Internet.<br /><br />In another initiative, Karnataka government has targeted creation of 10 lakh direct jobs in the next five years by upgrading the manufacturing sector under a new industrial policy to be unveiled in April, he said.<br /><br />Bhardwaj said the new industrial policy to be formulated and implemented from April 1 would ensure balanced and integrated industrialisation of the state. </p>