Directions have been issued to the Mysore Urban Development Authority to declare the house as a monument under the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act and immediately take up restoration work.
“It is a matter of pride that such a well-known writer was from Karnataka. Restoring the house will be a tribute to him,” he said at a meeting convened to review the functioning of Urban Development department.
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