Tirumagondanahalli is a small village located simply 20 kilometres away from Bengaluru’s Kempegowda Worldwide Airport. However regardless of its shut proximity to the airport, the village with a inhabitants of about 1,200 will get an influence provide just for three hours each day and a water provide a few times every week, the residents alleged.
Piqued over the decades-long apathy of elected representatives, the villagers final week gave vent to their feelings by erecting a banner titled ‘Is our MLA and different leaders alive’ and garlanding it with slippers.
It additionally carried images of half-baked improvement works undertaken within the village that falls within the constituency of Devanahalli MLA Nisarga Narayanaswamy L N of the JD(S) and in addition write-ups of fund misappropriations within the title of non-existent initiatives.
Harsha, a villager, advised The Indian Categorical, that the villagers have given a whole bunch of representations however nothing yielded outcomes. “The grama panchayat and the authorities involved claimed to have executed works to the tune of over Rs 50 lakh beneath the Rural Growth and Panchayat Raj division funds since 2014,” stated Harsha, whereas including that the locals have listed out all of the proof within the banner to disprove the claims of the panchayat.
It has been alleged that pretend payments have been generated by authorities officers within the title of asphalting roads, setting up drains, and putting in water air purifier tanks within the village.
“Nonetheless, none of those has been finished. We suspect a rip-off behind this,” Harsha stated.
Going a step additional, Tirumagondanahalli villagers say that if the problems aren’t addressed they’d both select to not vote or would forged NOTA within the subsequent Meeting elections slated to be held subsequent 12 months.
“The village is simply 5 kilometres from Doddaballapur city. We’re determined to attract the eye of the elected representatives and the officers involved,” stated Harsha explaining why such a banner was put in now
“Nobody has bothered to handle our points,” stated one other villager Santosh.
Following the incident, a criticism was filed at Doddaballapur rural police station in opposition to some youths of the village and a counter-complaint was filed stating a variety of misappropriation of funds within the title of “improvement works” within the village.
When The Indian Categorical tried to achieve MLA Narayanaswamy, he didn’t reply to the calls made.