Ishwar Khandre Appeals For More Compensation To Karanja Project Affected Farmers

Belagavi

Those who lost land in Karanja project have been given only meager compensation, but those who have been questioned in court have been given additional compensation. Thus Bidar district in-charge Minister Ishwara Khandre has requested that a one-time package should be announced and justice should be provided to the food donors who have suffered injustice.

He made a request to Deputy Chief Minister and Water Resources Minister DK Shivakumar in a meeting presided over by him.  He said that people who lost their land and houses in 1970s due to Karanja Reservoir have been fighting for justice for 50 years. Farmers who have lost the most valuable and priceless land and house inherited from their ancestors have been given compensation ranging from Rs 1265 to Rs 4186 per acre. However, when the court raised that some financially empowered people did not get adequate compensation, the court fixed the market value at Rs 15,000. He explained that those who went to the court were given a compensation of Rs.

Even though the land of indigent farmers who could not go to court is next to those who went to court, the compensation received is negligible. Thus, compensation is unfair to them. Under natural justice it is fair to give more compensation to these helpless farmers too. He announced a one-time special package in the same way as the maximum compensation was given as per the court order and requested to give appropriate compensation to those who lost land and houses for Karanja project.

Responding to this, Water Resources Minister DK Shivakumar promised to look into the case sympathetically.