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Yele Mallappa Settaru/ "Yale Mallappa chetty" was a philanthropist who lived around the early 1900s in Bangalore. Some of his contributions are:


 * Yele Mallappa Shetty Kere
 * Yele Mallappa Shetty's Maternity Hospital (1879)
 * The temple structure around Kadu Malleswara temple(1900)

He was a betel leaf merchant (needs to be vetted) and belonged to the lingayat community.

There is a street in Bangarpet - Yele Mallappa Road.

"In the early part of the 1900s there was a great drought in the city. A betel leaf merchant by the name Yele Mallappa Chetty devoted a large part of his earnings and wealth to the construction of a tank so as to harvest rainwater and provide succour to the people for drinking water as well as for farming needs. Yele Mallappa Chetty kere is on Old Madras Road and its vast water-spread a joy to behold. Yele Mallappa was a water philanthropist, and a grateful city must remember him even now." - march 22nd 2013 The Hindu