Madikeri: With the works on the ambitious Kodava Heritage Centre coming up near Madikeri going on at a snail’s pace, former Minister M.C. Nanaiah has urged the Government to stop spending more money on the Heritage Centre construction works and to transfer the sanctioned funds to Federation of Kodava Samajas (a 31-member body) at Balugodu in Virajpet taluk or to entrust the monitoring works to Madikeri Kodava Samaja.
Speaking to Star of Mysore, Nanaiah said that former IAS Officer Rathi Vinay Jha, a native of Kodagu, who was a top officer with the Union Ministry of Tourism, implemented Kodava Heritage Centre project by sanctioning initial funds. But the works failed to gain pace and had not been completed even after spending crores of rupees, he said.
