Karnataka's Nandigram A proposed SEZ, 20 km from Bangalore's new international airport, comes under sustained fire from farmers' lobbies and the opposition, but the government and developer refute any underhand deals.
Business Today, July, 2007 by Rahul Sachitanand
JULY 4, 2007, 11 A.M.
Nandagudi, South Karnataka
From the blood-letting in Nandigram, SEZ protests head south to the similar-sounding Nandagudi, a collection of 36 villages in southern Karnataka, where villagers hold up traffic and burn effigies to protest against a proposed SEZ, which, they say, will wreck their livelihood and take away their fertile farmland. Farmers have walked, cycled and hitched rides from the surrounding 36 villages that comprise Nandagudi Hobli, the new epicentre of the country's anti- SEZ movement. Two days after a long line of politicians, mostly from the opposition Congress, berate the ruling JD (S)-BJP combine for surrendering to "greedy private developers", farmers take matters into their own hands and demonstrate against this Rs...
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