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Donors have raised more than Rs 7 lakh for a daily wage labourer the day after it was reported that his public library in Karnataka’s Mysuru city was burnt down by miscreants on Friday, crowdfunding platform Ketto said. The goal is to collect Rs 10 lakh in 46 days.
Syed Issaq had set up the library in Rajiv Nagar Second Stage near Ammar Masjid in the city,
The New Indian Express reported on Frday. Residents of the area were given free access to the library, which had a collection of 11,000 books.
Isaaq said that he was informed about the fire at 4 am by a man who lived next to the library. “When I rushed to the library which is just a stone’s throw away distance, I could only see them being reduced to ashes,” the 62-year-old labourer told