Nearly half of the people served notice have filed their submissions before the Special Land Acquisition Officer (SLAO) of KIADB at Dharwad. Of the 232 notices served, 144 persons have replied and nearly 97 land owners had outrightly opposed the land acquisition and categorically declared before the land acquisition officer that they would not give their lands. Forty-seven land owners have given ‘conditional consent’ for giving their lands. According to the Assistant...
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Poor farmers lose out due to unending protests by Arpit Parashar
Farmers are caught between Mayawati’s promises, Rahul Gandhi’s idealism and mounting debts Land acquisition policy in Uttar Pradesh has been changed at least five times in the past five years to benefit the farmers. Amidst the raging controversies over what should be the land compensation rate and debates and protests over the various clauses of the land acquisition policy, most farmers have lost more than they could gain from Mayawati’s new...
More »Left to protest attacks on farmers in Haroa
-The Hindu A joint committee of krishak sabhas (farmers' organisations) of four Left parties have given a call to their units across the State to observe “Haroa Diwas” on July 14. It would be in protest against the police firing and attacks by armed Trinamool Congress activists on Saturday on farmers and sharecroppers who had returned to their land in the Haroa area of West Bengal's North Paraganas district after having...
More »Cong to toe Rahul line on Posco
-The Deccan Herald The State Congress is all set to toe the line taken by its national leader Rahul Gandhi against ''forceful farm land acquisition'' by extending its support to the agitation against the proposed Posco steel plant at Halligudi village in Gadag district. AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi recently held a march in Uttar Pradesh lending his support to the Farmers Protesting against land acquisition there. The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee...
More »BSY will persuade farmers to give up land for Posco by Anil Kumar M
Batting for a Posco steel plant in Gadag, chief minister B S Yeddyurappa says the government will try to persuade farmers to part with their land. The situation does not warrant the South Korean steelmaker to relocate from Halligudi in Gadag district to anywhere rlse in the state. "The government is trying to convince the farmers; the company stays in Gadag. We hope that everything will go well,'' he told...
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