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The Malnad Area Development Board (MADB) has sought a indebtedness from the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to instrumentality up works, including the operation of footbridges, successful the Malnad region, said MADB president R.M. Manjunath Gowda.
In a property league present connected December 31, Mr. Gowda said that the committee had prepared an enactment program requiring implicit ₹200 crore. The works projected see footbridges, hanging bridges and bridges to amended connectivity successful the Malnad region. NABARD has agreed to connection the loan, provided the State authorities is the guarantor. “There are galore places successful Shivamogga, Chikkamagaluru and Kodagu districts, wherever agrarian radical look trouble reaching their places during the rainy season, erstwhile galore streams travel successful spate. Last year, a idiosyncratic died successful Hosanagara taluk of Shivamogga portion crossing the stream. We request astir 300 footbridges. If NABARD grants america a loan, we tin implicit the operation of footbridges astatine 1 go,” the president said.
Similarly, Mr. Gowda said MADB has projected to conception a hanging span adjacent Rameshwara successful Tirthahalli taluk. The hanging span volition link a situation that lacks roadworthy connectivity. Besides that, the operation volition boost the tourism successful the region. “The committee discussed the connection successful its gathering held astatine Belagavi during the legislature session. The MLAs gave their support for the proposal. The State authorities is expected to see our petition to go guarantor for the loan,” helium said.
MADB, which caters to 10 districts dispersed implicit 64 assembly constituencies, has a full of 104 members. In the fiscal twelvemonth 2025-26, the State authorities allocated ₹33 crore for MADB’s activities. Of that, ₹24.95 crore has been spent. Besides that, the committee got peculiar grants of ₹8 crore, which had been spent for assorted works, including the improvement of a century-old authorities schoolhouse successful Tirthahalli taluk, Mr. Gowda noted.
He besides released the board’s diary for the twelvemonth 2026 connected the occasion. Officers of the committee were present.
