Farmers whose lands have been notified for the Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) are an angry lot, because, though their lands have been locked for the project for around 12 years now, they have still not received any compensation.
Raghu, a landloser, told The Hindu that it was high time the government made a final decision on the project.
Farmer leader Kodihalli Chandrashekhar said that the BDA had proposed many innovative methods of compensation, all of which involved acquiring more land to be developed into commercial real estate. “Our demand is that either the land losers receive monetary compensation as per the new Land Acquisition Act, 2013 or the PPR project is dropped,” he said. The farmers have now given the government a month’s time to make a final decision. The next meeting with farmers is scheduled to be held on June 21, 2016.
