Heeding farmers demand, Karnataka authorities drops acquisition of 1,777 acres of agriculture land in Devanahalli taluk for aerospace park

In a big growth, Karnataka authorities has dropped the method of acquisition of 1,777 acres of land in 13 villages of Devanahalli taluk for an aerospace park following resistance by farmers. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who held a gathering with representatives of farmers in Bengaluru on July 15, introduced shelving of the land acquisition course of. 

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah made the announcement because the farmers’ protest entered the 1,198th day on July 15.

However, the Chief Minister has made it clear that the federal government would purchase property of these farmers who’ve volunteered to surrender their land for the undertaking, by providing increased costs and sops, like a part of developed land. 

The Chief Minister stated that there was now a chance of industrialists, who wished to arrange their institutions within the proposed park, going to neighbouring States. Even then, the federal government had determined to shelve the land acquisition course of within the curiosity of farmers who had been eager that their land shouldn’t be acquired, he stated. 

The farmers of Devanahalli taluk had been protesting for the final 1,198 days in Channarayapatna demanding withdrawal of the land acquisition course of. Pointing out that their land is fertile, and they’re incomes remunerative costs for his or her crops resulting from proximity to markets in Bengaluru, they’d questioned the logic of buying fertile land for industrial growth. 

Their protest had develop into a broad-based one with varied progressive organisations lending their assist, and warning the federal government of launching a statewide protest if their calls for had been ignored. In response, the Chief Minister met their representatives within the first week of July and sought a while to look at the authorized points concerned. The remaining assembly (to determine on the problem) occurred on July 15.