Mangaluru: Deputy Commissioner A.B. Ibrahim has asked Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL) to settle the issue of non-payment of compensation to nine families that were evicted from their houses by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) in 1992.
He was chairing a meeting of representatives of MRPL, KIADB, Human Rights Protection Foundation, Udupi, and others. Meanwhile, Mr. Ibrahim asked the KIADB, which had acquired land for MRPL, to furnish documents, before end of this Month and stated that the property it had acquired belonged to the displaced families. This is necessary to accord “displaced” status on the families.
At the same time, foundation trustee K. Ashok Bhat said that of the nine originally displaced persons, only two are alive — Subraya Acharya and Thimmu, both aged about 75. They visit the KIADB office in Mangaluru daily inquiring about the payment of compensation, he said.
Later, an MRPL spokesperson said the company had always been willing to settle the issue and pay compensation, but was awaiting completion of certain procedural formalities.
Earlier, Human Rights Protection Foundation, Ravindranath Shanbhag picked up the issue, after MRPL paid no heed to the repeated pleas of displaced familieis. Besides, on February 16, newskarnataka.com had published a detailed article on the same.
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