The Amasebail Charitable Trust, which aims at turning the naxal-affected Amasebail into a model village, would be launching various development works on April 10.
The trust, Amasebail Gram Panchayat, Karnataka Bank and Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP) have together contributed for the development works at Amasebail in Kundapur taluk.
Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, A.G. Kodgi, former MLA and president of the Trust, said the works that would be inaugurated in the village include a Backward Classes girls’ hostel, a bus stand, an agricultural market, a bio-gas plant, drinking water facility, an autorickshaw stand and a taxi stand. These facilities would be inaugurated by Urban Development Minister Vinay Kumar Sorake, Fisheries Minister Abhayachandra Jain and former Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde. Besides these, foundation stone would be laid for construction of a fish market on the occasion.
Model village
The trust, established in 2006, began implementing development projects in 2008. In the last seven years, the Trust alone had spent Rs. 91.64 lakh on the work. Besides this, funds were also made available by the government, SKDRDP and Karnataka Bank.
Since he hailed from the village, Mr. Kodgi wanted to make it a model village by providing all basic facilities there. “There is a lot of migration of people from the villages to towns and cities. This can be stopped only when better facilities are provided in the villages. When better facilities are provided, it automatically improves the standard of living of the people in the villages,” he said.
While the Trust had provided many facilities for the benefit of people in the village in the last seven years, there had been some failures also. It had not been possible to get a list of persons without sites.
The efforts to get drinking water through Multi Village Scheme had drawn a blank. The attempts to install solar street lamps throughout the village had not succeeded.
There were 1,600 houses in the village, but 50 houses were yet to have a toilet. The efforts to maintain cleanliness in the village had not yielded the desired results due to lack of cooperation of the people. “Yet we will continue with our efforts,” Mr. Kodgi said.
Dugge Gowda, director of district unit of SKDRDP, said the SKDRDP had constructed 180 toilets and installed 80 bio-gas plants in the village.
A Backward Classes girls’ hostel, bus stand, drinking water facility, among the projects
The trust alone has spent Rs. 91.64 lakh on the work since 2008
Published - April 08, 2015 12:00 am IST
