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BANGALORE: The legislative Assembly on Monday passed five bills - Karnataka Abolition of Local Laws Bill, Karnataka Panchayat Raj ..

BANGALORE: The legislative Assembly on Monday passed five bills - Karnataka Abolition of Local Laws Bill, Karnataka Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill, Karnataka Land Revenue (amendment) Bill, Karnataka Minority Commission (amendment) Bill and Karnataka Innovative Universities Bill by voice vote. The Opposition parties were not present. Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister S Suresh Kumar, while moving the Innovative Universities Bill, said that the objective is to separate academic and administrative functions of the universities so that more thrust and focus could be on the academic issues in order to enhance its excellence.
"Two universities - Karnatak University at Dharwad and University of Mysore - have been chosen to be innovative universities where steps will be taken to ensure academic excellence and administrative efficiency," he added.On the abolition of local laws, Suresh kumar said, "Before the reorganisation of states in 1956, BombayKarnataka region, HyderabadKarnataka region and Coorg had separate local laws. Most of the laws are dysfunctional after the Constitution came into being as well as after the states were reorganised, which need to be abolished."

He said the government had set up a commission under the chairmanship of K R Chamaiah of the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal which had recommended in its first report that 541 local needs to be abolished, which was carried out. "In the second report, the commission has suggested that 88 local laws can be abolished. Hence, this bill is being moved," he explained.

RDPR Minister Jagadish Shettar, while moving the Panchayat Raj Amendment Bill said that the proposed act aims to bring more clarity on the issue of the role of ombudsman which are setup to monitor the functiong of the rural local bodies.