PRR project: Angry farmers slam govt for changing compensation terms

Rejecting the Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) project, farmers on Wednesday dubbed the public hearing for the project a mockery of democracy and an insult to those who waited 16 years for compensation.

Many among the 70 people who attended the hearing at Yelahanka’s Ambedkar Bhavan, where police personnel had outnumbered the gathered public, complained that the BDA did not publicise details of the hearing, and they learnt about it at the last minute. The hearing had been organised by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB).

Speakers at the meeting accused the BDA and the state government of committing atrocities against farmers.