KOCHI
The HMT Employees’ Union (CITU) has demanded that the State government pay the price of the company land to be acquired for the proposed Kerala High Court building to the HMT unit itself.
The demand was raised on Saturday after a team led by Industries Minister P. Rajeeve visited the site for the proposed High Court building. The union maintained that the government had allotted 100 acres to HMT Machine Tools for its use, while a total of 300 acres were acquired in 1998-99 for establishing the Kinfra Park and the Medical College. However, these assets have not been transferred to the HMT Machine Tools unit as its ownership then rested with the Bengaluru-based HMT Limited. However, HMT Machine Tools was later hived off and is an independent entity now.
