Contractors to stage protest in Bengaluru on March 5 seeking clearance of pending bills

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Karnataka Contractors Association president   R. Manjunath addressing a property   league  successful  Shivamogga connected  Saturday.

Karnataka Contractors Association president R. Manjunath addressing a property league successful Shivamogga connected Saturday. | Photo Credit: S.K. Dinesh

The Karnataka State Contractors Association has decided to signifier a protestation astatine Freedom Park successful Bengaluru connected March 5, demanding the merchandise of implicit ₹37,000 crore successful pending bills, said R. Manjunath, president of the relation successful Shivamogga connected Saturday.

Mr. Manjunath, successful a property conference, stated that the State authorities had not cleared the bills from 2022-23. The relation had appealed to the Chief Minister and respective furniture ministers, arsenic good arsenic different officers, aggregate times to resoluteness the issue. However, the authorities had neither fulfilled the request nor convened a gathering with the acrophobic officers.

The contractors, helium said, had borrowed loans from assorted sources, mortgaging their properties and jewellery to implicit the work. However, helium alleged that the authorities had not responded to the contractors’ problems.

Shivamogga PWD Contractors Association president S. Dhanashekhar, wide caput K. Manjunath and others were contiguous astatine the property conference.

Published - February 14, 2026 07:00 p.m. IST

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