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Medini youth are all single, but none lucky enough to mingle!

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Karwar: This village is tucked like a secret in the womb of Uttara Kannada district. Deprived of roads and lights and all the facilities that are no more a luxury, Medini in Kumta taluk is sulking in isolation and solitude! Neglect and isolation are taking a toll on the village youth and it is no more a surprise why the young men from the village are not getting married.

The village has to its credit the fame of producing a very famous variety of rice called ‘Medini rice’. The speciality of this rice variety is that it makes a perfect ‘payasam’ that is served during all auspicious occasions. Unfortunately, the natives of Medini have not been able to stir up sweet Medini rice payasam to celebrate wedding in the village!

All in all, there are 53 houses in the village and the population is 400 but there are scores of young men of marriageable age, who have failed to find a suitable match. The reason is the pathetic state in which the village has been left to languish.

If one reaches Siddapura main road, then he will have no option but to walk amidst dense forest, covering about eight kms of the unsurfaced road to reach Medini. Though electricity had once reached the village, the electric lines are damaged on a regular basis due to the dense forest around and now, the bulbs in the houses are hogging dust. Only a few houses are brightened by solar power, while others battle darkness even today.

The village has no pukka roads. The narrow, uneven mud roads are back-breakers. Due to non-connectivity, the locals rarely venture out. The situation is worse during the rainy season when the landslides and murky roads literally cut off the village from the outside world. The villagers bank mainly on agri produces and forest produces, but lack of road connectivity prevents the farmers from getting a scientific price for their produce.

All the factors have prevented the local youth, specifically the men from getting married. “I have had many proposals for marriage over the last few years and each time I was turned down by the girls’ family because the girls’ parents never wanted their daughter to settle in a place like Medini, which has not got even basic facilities,” said a local youth adding that it feels like they have been living in stone-age.

The villagers say that the issue was brought to the notice of Chief Minister Kumaraswamy when he had come to Gokarna as part of his village stay. He had promised to pay a visit to the village, but that never happened.

However, the villagers are still hopeful that one day all their problems will be solved and one day the Medini youth will shed their ‘single’ status.

 

Medini youth are all single, but none lucky enough to mingle!

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