Footbridge to Pavoor-Uliya Kudru dismantled
The Hindu
It remained submerged in the backwaters from the coffer bund at Adyar-Harekala for over a week
The footbridge that people got erected soon after every monsoon to connect Pavoor-Uliya Kudru (river island) in the Netravathi with the mainland at Adyar on National Highway 75 was submerged for a larger public cause — construction of the Adyar-Harekala vented dam-cum-bridge to provide drinking water to areas in Mangaluru Assembly Constituency. With the footbridge remaining under the backwater of the coffer bund built for constructing the dam about a kilometre downstream from the Kudru for over a week, the residents, under the leadership of Infant Jesus Church Parish Priest Fr. Jerald Lobo, dismantled the footbridge on Thursday. Shivappa, who was seen rowing a boat from the Kudru to the mainland on Friday, told The Hindu that it was back to square one for the residents of the island as the footbridge was found to be no longer sustainable. A percussion artist rendering service during Daivaaradhane, Mr. Shivappa’s is the lone Hindu family on the Kudru while the remaining 30 are Catholic Christians.More Related News
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