Karnataka gram panchayat elections: Ballari contestants vow to work for development

BALLARI: Yuva Shakti Sena Samskritika Kreeda Hagoo Graminabhivruddhi Sangha, a youth association at Hire Hadagali in Huvin Hadagali taluk of Ballari district, has made it a point to take an undertaking from the contestants of gram panchayat election to address 37 problems dogging their village.
Sangha president Vinayaka Harapanahalli and secretary Siddesh K L M said that they thought of the idea going by their bad experiences from the past elections.

“Every time, they get elected by merely making promises. There is no mechanism available to check their performance. So we have prepared a list of 37 problems faced by the villagers. As the village elders were particular about development, we approached the 47 candidates contesting for 21 GP seats. They all signed on that, thereby taking an undertaking to solve those problems with some elders as guarantors and witnesses,” they said.

Nandihalli Veeresh and Charanraj Jyoti, who are witnesses to the undertaking, said Hire Hadagali is a hobli-like village, but lacks basic amenities. “Despite having over 16,000 population, the village does not have a proper drainage system. To fix the accountability on GP members, we have signed the must-do list as witnesses. If they fail to keep their word, we will remind them. If they still ignore, we will launch an agitation against them,” they warned.

Gundi Charanraj, Angadi Shivayogappa, Shantayya, Shigli Halesh and other witnesses said that they have distributed pamphlets of the undertaking to all houses in the village.
A youth association at Hire Hadagali has taken undertaking from contestants of GP polls to address 37 problems dogging their village.