Former MLA Yathindra Siddaramaiah has assured a compensation of ₹5 lakh from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund to the family of a land-loser from Adakanahalli in Nanjangud taluk, who committed suicide allegedly after he was denied employment in the company that had acquired his land.
Identifying the deceased farmer as Siddaraju, Mr. Yathindra told reporters that the farmer’s agricultural land had been acquired by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) for allotment to industries. “As per law, he had to be given employment. But, for various reasons, the factory did not provide him a job,” he alleged.
Though the Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru too had issued instructions to the industries to provide jobs to land-losers, the industries had ignored the government’s directions, he lamented. Shortly, a meeting of industries will be convened and strict instructions will be issued in the regard, said Mr. Yathindra, who is the Chairman of the Ashraya Committee in Varuna assembly constituency represented by his father and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
