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Farmers want Peripheral Ring Road scrapped, say it has wrecked their lives

Even as Bengaluru Development Minister D K Shivakumar announced that the 73-km Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) will be given top priority by the new government, voices of dissent are growing among land losing farmers. With their lands stuck in limbo for the past 18 years since the notification was issued for their acquisition, they are neither able to sell it, nor has the BDA been able to arrive at a consensus with them on the “right” compensation.