Bengaluru: Opposition Leader in Legislative Council Chalavadi Narayanswamy on Wednesday demanded that the Government withdraw the notification allotting a five-acre Civic Amenities (CA) site to the trust headed by the family of AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge.
Addressing a press meet here yesterday, Narayanaswamy said that these sites be allotted through e-auction method. Maintaining that the irregularities in the allotment by Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) seemed to be a bigger scam than the one related to MUDA, he alleged that the exchequer had incurred a loss of Rs. 550 crore to Rs. 600 crore as KIADB failed to auction these sites. Instead, the KIADB allotted the sites by fixing a mere Rs.2.5 crore per acre, instead of fixing the minimum price based on the Scheduled Rate (SR), which presently stands at Rs. 6.5 crore per acre in and around Devanahalli in Bengaluru, where the trust has been allotted the land.
