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Trust will now repair damage caused while ferrying statue

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BENGALURU: THE repair works of the infrastructure damaged during the transportation of the 62-feet tall, 750-tonne Hanuman statue to Kacharakanahalli here is set to begin on Thursday. On Tuesday, multiple stretches of he Hennur Main Road near Geddalahalli were damaged, medians were broken, electric poles uprooted and a stormwater drain was blocked to accommodate the passage the statue, which arrived from Kolar.

On Wednesday, president of the Srirama Chaithanya Vardhini Trust M N Reddy told The New Indian Express that the Trust had taken up complete responsibility of the repairs and had spoken to 2-3 contractors who would start work from Thursday. “If we had not broken the median, we would have been forced to chop branches of over 20 trees,” he said.

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