mandya when the karnataka chief minister krishna completed two years in office recently it was celebration time for the people of maddur sources say progress in the cms constituency has been steady over the last two years sm shankar brother of the itsavvy chief minister and member of karnataka pradesh congress committee kpcc said here recently the constituency received rs 7612 crore during the last two years and over rs 100 crore would be released in three years he said despite the chief minister being busy with affairs of the state he was specially concerned about development of maddur neglected over the years the president of maddur block congress committee kadaluru ramakrishna said the work implemented over two years in maddur had not even been conceived in the last 50 years a masterplan has been chalked out for the development of maddur town at an estimated cost of rs 50 crore including a drinking water project to provide cauvery water to the residents of maddur the project has been planned to serve the residents for at least 15 years a sum of rs 34 crore has already been released and the works are in progress he added also on the anvil are a ksrtc depot that is coming up at an estimated cost of rs 1 crore a sum of rs 4 crore has been earmarked for the extension of five government buildings in the town under nabard rs 3 crore for five bridges and rs 35 crore for nine roads has been released a sum of rs 225 crore has been sanctioned under nonplan expenditure and rs 1 crore has been given as additional grant the irrigation sector has also got sufficient funds for strengthening canals desilting lift irrigation tanks and feeder canal development the education sector is being looked into new schools have been sanctioned and they have better infrastructure hostels have come up and over 100 schools have got good sanitation drinking water and compounds with unicef aid the rest of the 157 schools will get all necessary resources by june as far as the industrial sector is concerned three major industries are in the offing these are the sugar factory at koppa the food processing park and the gas filling unit in gejjalagere so far residents of maddur are satisfied with the developments some of the people said they were happy about projects such as mahithi sindu and computerisation of land records in maddur