Flood-hit tribal family stays in cave for 6 months

TNN | Apr 24, 2020, 04:21 IST

Chikkamagaluru: After chief minister B S Yediyurappa’s intervention, a tribal family living in a cave in Mudigere forest for the past six months after losing its house during the previous monsoon in Kallaki village, Chikkamagaluru district, will be given shelter at a refugee camp.
Mudigere tahsildar H M Ramesh said the family will be accommodated in a camp on Thursday and moved to a new house soon.
The government help to Ananth, his wife Annapurna and their five-year-old son Avinash came after an NGO alerted the media about their plight. Ananth’s daughter is a class 5 student in a residential school for tribals in Menasinahadya.
The chief minister took note of the media coverage and directed DC Bagadi Goutham to help the poor family. Yediyurappa has also asked officials to offer Rs 1 lakh to the family to build a house.
His family was depending on forest by-products and struggled to collect food after the Covid-19 lockdown. Ananth said that he had approached the taluk administration for help of losing his house, but moved to the cave after realising that help was not forthcoming.