MADIKERI GETS A FACE LIFT; ROADS TO BE CEMENTED;

Madikeri March 9, 2007

All the main roads at Madikeri would be turned into concrete shortly, according to the commissioner of City Municipal Council, Raya.

Talking to this correspondent he said that the main roads would be concreted at a cost of rupees 54 lakh and water pipes would be laid at a cost of rupees 124 lakhs. These works would be undertaken at the first phase which would be over by three months.

Raya also disclosed that a rupees ten crore under small and medium town basic facility development project would be undertaken under world bank assistance. Remaining roads in the town would also be concretized and drainages done. He said that mini water filter stations would be erected in three parts of the town and severage water re cycling unit will also come up. This project will begin after the district infrastructure development committee approves the project. Funds for both the projects are already sanctioned by the government, he disclosed.

YOUTH RAPE GRANNY;

In a bizarre incident, an old lady aged seventy years was raped by three youth at Taltare Shettalli village at Somwarpet taluk.

According to police, three youth Lokesh, sampath and Raghu went to the house of old couple at night on sixth. They went in the pretext of asking torch light and made the couple drink alcohol. Later the lady was dragged out into forest and allegedly raped. Her husband began to shout and called for help from the window. Their son living at a distance rushed to the spot. The old lady was found in an unconscious manner.

Police who received the complaint at first had settled the issue suspiciously by taking written apology. The accused were let out Scot free. Yesterday members of Cauvery gramina Abhivrudhi samithy once again lodged a complaint and protested against the injustice. Succumbing to pressure police arrested Raghu and Sampath and registered a case. Villagers told that the case would have been closed if they did not protest.