<p class="bodytext">This elderly woman doesn’t have a house to live in and has no guarantee of dailywage work or next meal. The woman in question is not even eligible for housing schemes for she is a Sindagi Town Municipal Council (TMC) member. And there’s too much talk about women’s empowerment and reservation in local bodies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mahadevi Bhimshya Naikodi (80), a member of ward 23 of Sindagi TMC in Vijayapura district, lives in a thatched hut on a newly formed residential layout.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mahadevi may be left to fend for herself on streets soon as she is being pressured by the concerned persons to vacate the place.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her son Mahantesh made her contest the local body polls and ensured her victory in ward 23, which has a high number of illiterates.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He, however, migrated to Maharashtra for work soon after.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Two more sons of Mahadevi have abandoned her.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She eked out a living on the honorarium for attending the general meetings of TMC and an old age pension. But she’s stopped receiving honorarium and pension for the past one year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">These days, Mahadevi is surviving from the food offered by Good Samaritans or temple prasada.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Mahadevi is living in a thatched hut on layout road. She is getting pressure from the people concerned to leave the place. There are several housing schemes for the homeless, the TMC <br />should allot a house to Mahadevi from one such scheme,” Eranna Metri, a resident of ward 23, said.</p>
<p class="bodytext">This elderly woman doesn’t have a house to live in and has no guarantee of dailywage work or next meal. The woman in question is not even eligible for housing schemes for she is a Sindagi Town Municipal Council (TMC) member. And there’s too much talk about women’s empowerment and reservation in local bodies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mahadevi Bhimshya Naikodi (80), a member of ward 23 of Sindagi TMC in Vijayapura district, lives in a thatched hut on a newly formed residential layout.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mahadevi may be left to fend for herself on streets soon as she is being pressured by the concerned persons to vacate the place.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her son Mahantesh made her contest the local body polls and ensured her victory in ward 23, which has a high number of illiterates.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He, however, migrated to Maharashtra for work soon after.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Two more sons of Mahadevi have abandoned her.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She eked out a living on the honorarium for attending the general meetings of TMC and an old age pension. But she’s stopped receiving honorarium and pension for the past one year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">These days, Mahadevi is surviving from the food offered by Good Samaritans or temple prasada.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Mahadevi is living in a thatched hut on layout road. She is getting pressure from the people concerned to leave the place. There are several housing schemes for the homeless, the TMC <br />should allot a house to Mahadevi from one such scheme,” Eranna Metri, a resident of ward 23, said.</p>
