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Mysore, Dec. 29- Today being the 109th birth anniversary of
Rashtrakavi Kuvempu, a programme was organised jointly by Mysore City
Corporation (MCC) and District Kannada Sahitya Prishat (KSP) at Vishvamanava
Park near Gun House here this morning.
The underway development works at the park was halted to
facilitate the conduct of the programme more as a customary ritual than a
purposeful event.
The then government, under the tenure of S.M. Krishna as
Chief Minister, was said to have funded Rs. 17.8 lakh to give a thorough
facelift to the park. But the process reportedly never took off. MUDA
reportedly commenced the work on March 13 this year with a mission to complete
the work before Oct. 12.
Unfortunately, as of today, more of the assigned work were
incomplete including the construction of an elevated dais, landscaping, laying
of tiles, etc.
As a ritual, District In-charge Minister V. Sreenivasa
Prasad garlanded the statue of the Rashtrakavi at the park.
Expressing Dissatisfaction over the arrangements, Prasad
assumed that the District Administration would organise the ceremony in a
befitting manner from next year onwards.
MUDA AEE Panduranga, speaking to SOM blamed the
non-availability of sand for delay in development work.
DC pulled up: DC C. Shikha, who arrived late at the venue to
invite Sreenivasa Prasad for the Cake Festival being held at Rajendra Kalamandira
today, was pulled up by the Minister for arriving late to the programme. She
then garlanded Kuvempu’s statue.
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