GULBARGA: Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh on Monday said work on the proposed multi-crore food park on the outskirts of Jewargi town on the Jewargi-Sindagi National Highway has not taken off owing to non-cooperation of the agency which has been entrusted with the responsibility of creating infrastructure for food processing and related industries to set up their units there.

Talking to presspersons here, Mr. Singh said the Union Government has given approval for setting up the food park at Jewargi. The State Government, on its part, has completed all formalities, including the acquisition of 105 acres of land for the proposed food park and paid compensation to farmers whose land has been acquired.

He said the land has also been handed over to the agency, which had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the State Government to provide infrastructure facilities and monitor the functioning of the food park. Incidentally, the agency is headed by leading industrialist S.S. Patil of Gulbarga.

Mr. Singh said he personally spoke to Mr. Patil on several occasions to begin work on the food park.

More land

But citing one reason or the other, work has been postponed by the agency, he said. Now, the agency wants more land to provide infrastructure facilities, he added.

The Government has waited for long for the agency to start work on the food park, he said and added that it will not wait any further. The Government proposes to cancel the contract awarded to the industrialist and hand over the work to another agency, he added.

Court building

Mr. Singh said the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, N.K. Sodhi, has agreed to visit Gulbarga on September 29 to inaugurate the court building in Jewargi town, which was completed a few months ago. He will also participate in the inaugural function along with other judges of the Karnataka High Court, Mr. Singh said.

Mr. Singh, who also held a taluk-level review meeting on Sunday of flood-relief works in Jewargi, which he represents in the Assembly, said instructions have been issued to Revenue Department officials to take up relief measures. Most of the damaged transformers have been replaced by Gulbarga Electricity Supply Company Ltd., he said.

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