Schoolchildren write to PM Modi requesting bridge across Tungabhadra river

HAVERI: It has been 76 years since the country got independence, but even today, some villages do not have proper connectivity. With elected representatives turning a blind eye, schoolchildren of a village have written a letter to PM Narendra Modi requesting the construction of a bridge across a river to improve connectivity.

The state government and local bodies have failed to provide even basic infrastructure to the underdeveloped Hamsi and Shakara villages on the border of Haveri district. There are no proper medical facilities, education or banking facilities in this village.

The villagers, including small children, pregnant women and the elderly, are forced to go to Havanur village after crossing the river using a raft. Medical patients from these village have to depend on boats to get avail treatment. Not only that, school and college students are facing similar problems. On the other hand, the Tungabhadra river is overflowing, and people depend on small village boats.

Therefore, the primary school students have written a letter to Narendra Modi to find a solution to all these problems at the earliest.

The people of Shakara village, who have been living in pitiable condition for the past four decades, have made several appeals to people’s representatives to build a bridge. But the latter’s assurances come only during elections and the problem faced by the villagers has not been resolved so far.

Deciding to take matters into their own hand, the students of the village’s government primary school have written a letter directly to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a solution to the decades-old problem.