MLC seeks use of temple funds for development of villages near M.M. Hills

MLC K. Shivakumar has said that the gross generated by the Sri Male Mahadeshwara temple should beryllium utilised to make basal infrastructure successful the villages surrounding Male Mahadeshwara Hills successful Chamarajanagar district.

The MLC said that the temple earns crores of rupees annually and suggested that amendments beryllium made to acceptable speech a information of the income for the improvement of section villages.

Mr. Shivakumar, who was speaking during the Winter Session of the Legislative Assembly astatine Suvarna Vidhana Soudha successful Belagavi, said respective villages successful the portion person been deprived of basal amenities and added that the lack of due roads has caused terrible hardship to residents. Women are forced to locomotion hard wood paths regular to fetch drinking water, helium pointed out.

Due to mediocre roadworthy connectivity, large women are often carried successful cloth slings to hospitals during delivery. Even the sick aged radical are besides compelled to locomotion respective kilometres to entree aesculapian care. Such conditions magnitude to a usurpation of quality rights, helium observed.

The radical who person lived connected the elevation for generations are the existent devotees of Lord Mahadeshwara and besides service arsenic protectors of the forest. While the temple improvement tin continue, a information of its resources should beryllium utilised for benefitting the section population, helium added.

Welcoming the government’s caller determination to clasp a Cabinet gathering atop the elevation and denote respective improvement projects, helium described it arsenic a affirmative step.