: Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala will address the joint session of the state legislature on February 6, the Legislative Assembly Secretariat said Friday.
According to the provisional programme, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, who also holds the Finance portfolio, will present the budget on February 8.
The secretariat said the Governor had summoned the legislative assembly to meet at11 am on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Kumaraswamy met the Governor at the Raj Bhavan and invited him to address the join session.
"I met the Governor to discuss with him about the joint session and budget presentation.I invited the Governor to address the joint session as per practice," he told reporters.
The session will begin with the Governor's address to the joint session on February 6 and will conclude on February 15.
Kumaraswamy said he was holding a department wise review ahead of the 2019-20 budget next month.
He said he held discussions with farmers leaders from various districts and taken suggestions from them, mainly on electricity, irrigation, crop insurance, seeds, and marketing, among others, so that these could be implemented in the budget to initiate good programmes for them.
Recently in an interview to PTI, Kumaraswamy had said he would fulfil his Rs 46,000-crore loan waiver commitment to farmers "completely" in the Congress-JDS coalition government's second budget.
Earlier, speaking to reporters after the pre-budget meeting with farmers leaders, Co-Operation Minister Bandeppa Kashyampur said the Chief Minister had announced a farm loan waiver last time and that he would protect farmers' interests in the upcoming budget.
Reiterating that all eligible farmers would get the benefit of loan waiver, he said it is the responsibility of the government.
To a question, Kashyampur said issues faced by farmers on loan waiver like non-matching of their names with Aadhaar card was being addressed with the help of Tahsildars.
"We are are removing several clauses to make it easy for farmers," he said.
Kashyampur said farmers wanted the right Minimum Support Price for crops and implementation of the Swaminathan committee report, among other things.
He said some farmers pointed out that registration fees for harvesting machine was too high in Karnataka, compared to neighbouring Maharashtra and added that the Chief Minister had taken note of it.
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