Road to Talacauvery restored after a week

Madikeri: The district administration on Kodagu cleared on Thursday road leading up to Talacauvery which was hit by a series of landslides. A team of 20 volunteers have cleaned the temple premises ahead of puja from Friday. Meanwhile, the search operation has continued to locate the missing family members and relatives of the chief priests.
Puja would be performed from Friday onwards at Talacauvery. The Neeleshwara Padmanabha Tanthri will arrive on Friday to perform various rituals. After this the daily puja will commence, confirmed MLA K.G.Bopaiah who is managing the works in the area. DC Anies kanmani Joy, Temple committee president B.S.Thammaiah and executive officer Jagadishkumar also present. The search operation is continued in the calamity and surrounding Cherangala and riverside areas in three groups to locate three remaining bodies.
Meanwhile Mysuru IG Vipulkumr visited the calamity site at Talacauvery with his team and discussed with NDRF,SDRF and Kodagu SP Kshama Mishra regarding the progress in search operation. He assured that till the dead bodies are retrieved, police will fully join hands with the search teams. He regretted the landslides in the famous pilgrim centre and said that natural calamity has to be faced by us. However, he collected the previous history of these landslides in Kodagu and MLA K.G. Bopaiah briefed the story.
The search operation resulted in just obtaining a purse belonging to one of the victims, Archak Shrinivas padilaya. The purse consists of his ID card and PAN cards. The temple committee has arranged lunch for 400 persons at Talacauvery prepared at Bhagamandala for the rescue teams. IG,MLA and officials joined the lunch at Talacauvery.RSS senior pracharak Nirmal Kumar visited the spot and recalled memories of late Narayanachar. The bright weather on Friday in Kodagu gave a sigh of relief for the people with smooth routine activities in the midst of corona 59 positive cases in the district on Friday. Surprisingly the rainfall total average showes a decline of 104 mms this year. Last year 1t was 1818 mms and this year it is 1714 mms.