Deve Gowda targets CM for violating clauses on BMIC project
Monday December 22 2003 00:00 IST
PTI
BANGALORE: Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Sunday charged the Karnataka government for violating the agreement clauses on entering in to the Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise (NICE) on the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) project and of converting it into a `Real Estate project.'
Addressing a press conference here, he alleged that Chief Minister S M Krishna and his Chief secretary B S Patil had colluded in granting permission to sell 30 acres to a Gurgaon based private sector firm, Nandi Infrastructure Economic Services Ltd, which is a partner of NICE.
Gowda claimed that the land sold to this firm did not come under the purview of the land earmarked for BMIC project.
He said that NICE was now engaged in setting up residential sites on this land and sell it to public.
The government, Gowda said, was also trying to hand over 1,930 acres to NICE and had been pressurising officials to transfer the land.
However, some officials have informed the government of their difficulty in handing over the land, as it has already been granted to farmers who were cultivating it, he said. |
