CHIKKAMAGALURU: When she wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his assistance to tackle some pressing problems in her village, A G Namana never expected to become a local saviour. Thanks to her, officials and elected representatives are now addressing the concerns she had raised.Since Monday, officials have been visiting Alekhan Horatti, a tiny village in the Western Ghats in Mudigere taluk of Chikkamagaluru district, following a directive from the Prime Minister’s Office to attend to issues raised by her. Local MLA B B Ningaiah decided to approach the Centre seeking funds to build or improve infrastructure for villagers who don’t even have basic facilities.Earlier this year, Namana, 16, thought of writing to the PM as she was upset about the plight of villagers and her teachers encouraged her to dash off a letter. The village with 35 families and 300 people doesn’t even have a motorable road. Power plays truant while health facilities are lax. After hearing about the PM’s response to kids’ concerns, Namana, a student of the Moorarji Desai Residential School in Mudigere’s Bidarahalli, wrote a letter in English to the PM on October 6 outlining the lack of basic facilities at her home towm which is 45kms from Chikkamagaluru.After two months went by without a response, she had lost hope. But Namana and her family were in for a surprise when they were informed about the PMO’s directive to the Chikkamagaluru district administration. The PMO asked officials to look into their request early December.Earlier this week, officials visited the village and have assured villagers their problems would be looked into. Though Namana does not stay at the village, her parents and younger brother live there. She’s happy that officials are looking into the problems,Mudigere MLA Ningaiah of the JDS, who visited the village on Tuesday and met Namana and her family, said he would seek central funds to develop the village. The PMO has instructed the state government to look into the request, he added.He said he got Rs 80 lakh-worth projects to improve the village. He blamed the weather for the poor condition of the 4.5km road leading to the village. “I’ll ask Chikkamagaluru-Udupi MP Shobha Karandlaje to prevail upon the Centre and get Rs 9.5 crore to relay the road,” he told TOI. There are concrete roads in the village, which gets piped water supply. The village has electricity but power plays truant as trees and its branches fall on power lines, he said.