Mysuru: Strongly opposing the proposed Hiriyur-Mysuru 400 KV Power Grid Line passing over their agricultural fields, nearly a hundred farmers under the banner of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) staged a demonstration in front of the Power Grid office near Maidanahalli in Yelwal Hobli of the taluk yesterday.
Claiming that there are plans to draw power lines of the 400 KV power project over the agricultural fields at Kallur Naganahalli, Anandur, Chikkanahalli, Mallegowdanakoppal, Yachegowdanahalli, Doddegowdanakoppal, Hosakote and other villages of Mysuru taluk, the farmers alleged that power lines are being drawn to benefit Real Estate Mafia, builders and developers and the politically influential.
