WHERE IS “BHAGYJYOTHI?”

Madikeri Dec. 10 Where is “Bhagyajyothi?”, where is “Kuteera Jyothi?”all these Govt. schemes proved to be flop and false assurances by politicians and officials. The poor families who obtained connections under “Bhagyajyothi” scheme were assured by the then representatives and officials that they will get the electricity supply free of cost.

But, now the Govt. or the Chescom is giving shock treatment! The families are getting heavy bills. It is not a mere hundreds. They have to pay bills of thousands of rupees. The beneficiaries are almost belong to labour calss. They worry about continuation of the electric lights, if the Govt. impose such a heavy tax on them.

Another scheme, the “Kuteera Jyothi” was announced by central Govt. two years back. The Govt. had instructed all the village Panchayath heads to send a report with statistics about the number of poor families in the villages. The village panchayaths have sent the detail reports. The “Kuteera jyothi” scehemes were announced by officials and MP’s. Now no body knows where the scheme has gone?

The poor people who are enlisted under poverty are roaming to Village panchayaths and Chescom offices often to get sanction the “Kuteera” scheme but in vain.

To give an example about the dwindling of money and cheating the people, in Thyagathur tribes colony the tribe families were enjoying the electricity free supply under “Bhagyajyothi” scheme after the implementation. A year after this their house walls were fitted with electricity reading meters. Now, they were taxed with heavy bill amount.

The same problem found in Siddapur, Nanjarayapatna, Abhyathmangala village colonies. Already the electricity supply has been disconnected by Chescom in kallalli, Basaavanahalli, Chotepare and other villages where the poor families could not afford to bear the bill amount . The chescom authoirities recently announced here the entire villages in the district will be provided the electricity supply. In practical, the electricity supplied villages are also got disconnected at present. Further, many poor families are crying after they received bill for more than Rs. 3 thousand to pay including arrears.

WOMEN URGED ACTION AGAINST RAPIST

Madikeri Dec. 10 Women organizations have urged stringent legal action against rapist K.L.Vinod at Heggula village near Shanivarasanthe. The incident was reported on 3rd December. The accused had raped a minor girl. The police had arrested him and produced to court. The judge has provided him bail. The various women orgonisation in the region have organized a protest and surrounded the Shanivarsanthe police station. They alleged that the police have failed in sending the report to the laboratories for suitable report. They doubted the involvement and influence of some politicians to stop the further investigation. The local women folk fear the free movement in the area after the incident -the protestors said. The police officers assured the action against the accused after the medical report is sent to Mysore and after the opinion receives./

Z.P.ex. President H.B.Jayamma, the women orgonisation head N.K.Sumathi, the Z.P. member Rajamma Rudraiah,Thaluk panchayath member Manjula Pooviaih,DSS leader ME Sannaiah were among the agitators.

BLACKMAILER ARRESTED

Madikeri Dec. 10 A blackmailer posing as a journalist was arrested by Madikeri rural police.

Dyani a youth of Hysodlur village, South Kodagu posed as journalist and threatened a physical instructor teacher at Bettageri High School, Madikeri thaluk and tried to blackmail him. The teacher was travelling with the girl students from karvar after attending a sports meet. The girl students belong to Bettageri High school. Dyani also climbed the bus. Meanwhile he grabbed the mobile belong to the teacher. After they reached Kodagu Dyani again went to the teacher and blackmailed him to give Rs. 10 thousand or otherwise he will publish a report about him in the newspaper. Meanwhile he had already sold the grabbed mobile at Gonikoppal.

The teacher had complained to the school management board. The board president Arambur vasanth had complained to the police and nabbed the pseudo journalist . But why he tried to blackmail the teacher who was travelling with the girl students? According to a source there might have been some incident happened inside the bus which had instigated the youth to blackmail the concerned. This is still suspense.