Farmers in Mysore protest land acquisition

Chennai/Mysore: While the Yeddyurappa-led BJP government in Karnataka is embroiled in a land scam, farmers are up in arms against the acquisition of their lands for industrial use in Mysore district. They have alleged that the government was acquiring 25,000 acres of land.
Dismissing their allegation, authorities have come out with a statement saying that they were acquiring 8,520 acres in the district as a mutual consent of farmers.
The clarification has come in the wake of protests by farmers that the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) was acquiring huge stretches of land, including fertile lands, in the taluks to create a ‘land bank’.
Farmers and pro-farmers’ organisations which are vehemently opposing the acquisition moves, have been voicing their protest. The Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, the Raitha Krishikara Sanghatane and the All India Democratic Students’ Organisations are among those opposing the move.
The Association of Concerned and Informed Citizens of Mysore (ACICM), the latest to join the issue, has strongly criticised the Government’s decision and submitted a memorandum to the governor questioning the need to acquire 25,000 acres when ‘a large number of industries were either shut or sick in Mysore’.
The Development Officer and Special Land Acquisition Officer of the KIADB and the District Industries Centre Joint Director maintained in a joint statement on Thursday that only 991.11 had been acquired so far since 2006. These lands had been handed over to various industrial units. Another 7,007.21 acres of land were being acquired in the four taluks of Nanjangud, Hunsur, Mysore and H D Kote.
20/11/11 Business Standard

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