Karnataka - Udupi   

Amasebail to be made model gram panchayat

Udupi: A.G. Kodgi, chairman of the Third Karnataka State Finance Commission, has said that Karnataka Bank will adopt the Amasebail Gram Panchayat to make it a model gram panchayat.

Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, he said that an Amasebail Charitable Trust had been formed for the purpose of initiating development works and welfare projects in Amasebail. Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa will inaugurate the Trust and also the programme to be held for adoption of the gram panchayat on October 10.

The Trust had drawn up a plan that envisages an expenditure of Rs. 50 crore to be spent over a period of five years to realise the goal of making Amasebail a model panchayat.

The funds for the project will include finances made available by the Karnataka Bank, the Amasebail Gram Panchayat, the Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP), the Navodaya Charitable Trust, the Kodgi Trust, local cooperative societies, philanthropists, and also funds from local area development funds of MLAs, MLCs, and MPs.

The Amasebail Gram Panchayat includes the villages of Amasebail, Machathu and Rattadi that were included in the model village scheme. There are 1,600 families with a population of about 7,500 in the panchayat.

There are 181 “very poor: families in Amasebail, 88 in Machathu and 86 in Rattadi, according to a preliminary survey conducted by the Trust.

Under the model village project, all the families would be provided with “pucca” houses. Toilets, electricity and drinking water facility will be provided to all the houses, and all the families will be given insurance cover. Efforts will be made to provide primary and high school education to all children and employment to all the beneficiaries.

The Amasebail Gram Panchayat is a backward area in Udupi district. The Trust’s other plans include making provision for irrigation and dairy farming; construction of rural roads; providing loans for agriculture, dairy farming and self-employment; market facilities for selling agricultural produce and dairy products; introducing welfare schemes for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe families; and providing ambulance facilities.

D. Veerendra Heggade of Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala is the honorary president of the Amasebail Charitable Trust, and A.G. Kodgi is the president; a representative of Karnataka Bank is the treasurer, and a representative of the Kodgi Trust is the secretary.

The other members of the Trust include Udupi district in-charge Minister; Udupi MP; MLAs of Kundapur and Byndoor, representatives of Navodaya Charitable Trust and Kodgi Trust, and SKDRDP; zilla panchayat and taluk panchayat members representing Amasebail Gram Panchayat, president of the Amasebail Vyavasaya Seva Sahakari Bank, and president of the Amasebail Gram Panchayat.

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