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Moodbidri: Farmers Voice Opposition to Land Acquisition Process

  •   Sat, Nov 20 2010 03:04:30 PM

News: Hemanath Padubidri
Daijiworld Media Network—Moodbidri (RD/CN)

Moodbidri, Nov 20: The farmers’ fraternity opposed the acquisition of their fertile landholdings of about 1,148 acres in the neighbourhood of Badaga Mijar, Tenka Mijar and Niddodi villages by Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB). The farmers residing in these villages urged chief minister B S Yeddyurappa to shelve the proposed land acquisition process.

KIADB special land acquisition officer has issued notices for acquisition of 272.11 acres in Niddodi village, 348.09 acres in Tenka Mijar, and 427.04 acres in Badaga Mijar villages to execute the Suvarna Corridor Project. The government officials have misguided the state authorities by saying that the landholdings that were meant for acquisition were barren land, although it’s fertile land ploughed by farmers since many
generations. The farmlands are inclusive of grazing land for cattle and all the essentials required to sustain farming.

The land marked for the acquisition is inhabited by farmers and farmhands who are dependant on farming-related tasks and lack skills to switch over to other labour. The farmlands are being widely utilized to grow paddy, sugarcane, vegetables, maize, areca, beetle leaves, palm, and plantain farming. Despite every farmer owning cattle the state records state that the landholding is barren land.

The residents of Badaga Mijar, Tenka Mijar, and Niddodi villages urged Yeddyurappa to shelve the land acquisition process, since the farmers were not taken into confidence and the surveying for the project in their farmlands raises doubts about the real motive of the state authorities.

Pidamale Ramanjaneya Yuva Okkoota urged the state authorities in their memorandum to abandon the land acquisition process.

Local farmers Alphonse D’Souza, Kallamundkoor gram panchayat former president Poovappa Gowda, gram panchayat member Rama Gowda, journalist Kiran Manjanabail, Ramanjaneya Yuva Okkota secretary Chandrakant Bhat, Krishnamurti Manjanabail, Arunachala, Madhav Gowda, and Gopal Gowda were present on the occasion.
  

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  • Sriram, Bengaluru

    Sun, Nov 21 2010

    BS Yeddyurappa = "Bigg Scam Yeddyurappa"
    "Bhoo Swadeena Yeddyurappa". There is no point in appealing to Yeddyurappa. Here is a leader with a primitive feudal mindset, who seems hell bent on taking India back to the "Zamindari" system which was abolished after Independence. Cultivable, fertile agricultural land is acquired from farmers by paying a pittance, while the same is transferred to sons, daughters, son-in-law, sister, minsters, BJP MPs, BJP MLAs, MLCs, RSS members at a throwaway price (what has happened at Bengaluru and Shimoga and has been exposed). After this act, and farmers have been dispossessed and deprived of their right to lead a dignified and decent life, they go and distribute "bagyalakshmi" sarees to the women folk. Right thinking people should all unite to throw out this government and this party to avoid feudal tendencies and ensure non-exploitation of a section of the people.

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