After >Hero MotoCorp dropped Karnataka as its destination for a project, the Government is making an all-out effort to retain the Coca-Cola company investment in the State.
The government, which had been dithering for the last two years over the company’s request for allotment of 250 acres in Yadgir district in north Karnataka to set up a greenfield bottling plant, has now started the process of handing over land to the company.
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She said the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) has started making payment to land owners at Yadgir, which has been notified for industrial development. The KIADB would hand over 250 acres at Kadechur village in Yadgir taluk to the company in a few days.
Compensation
An official of the Yadgir unit of KIADB said that land would be handed over to the company in a week’s time. Compensation of Rs 7.50 lakh per acre was paid to those whose land acquired located near the road. Other farmers had been paid Rs six per acre, the official said.
The previous BJP Government had cleared the Coca-Cola’s investment plan in Yadgir, a district that was carved out of Gulbarga in 2010. Yadgir has only two industrial estates and one industrial area. But due to High Court stay, the government could not allot land immediately. The court has vacated the stay now.
Nearly 3,330 acres at Kadechur and Baliyala have been reserved for industrial purpose. Spread across three talukas — Shahapur, Shorapur and Yadgir — the district is known for cluster of cement industries and a distinct stone popularly know as “Malakheda Stone.”
The district has vast stretch of fertile black cotton soil. It is known for red gram, cotton, jowar and groundnut cultivation.
(This news story was first published in The Hindu online edition)