Protest against proposed stadium at KSIC filature factory at T. Narsipura near Mysuru intensifies, weaving staff stay away from work

The protestation against the proposed operation of a stadium wrong the KSIC filature factory premises astatine T. Narsipura, successful Mysuru territory of Karnataka, intensified connected February 25 with employees of KSIC’s weaving units successful Mysuru and Channapatna joining the agitation.

Around 700 workers of the Mysuru weaving unit, 150 from Channapatna and astir 190 from the filature mill stayed distant from duty, disrupting operations, and raising concerns implicit the imaginable interaction connected the accumulation of GI-tagged Mysuru silk sarees.

The striking weaving portion employees joined their counterparts astatine T. Narsipura successful a amusement of solidarity. “Without earthy silk from the filature factory, the weaving units successful Mysuru and Channapatna cannot function,” a KSIC root said.

Officials indicated that continued disruption could impact the proviso of Mysuru silk sarees, which are successful precocious demand.

KSIC, being a large purchaser astatine cocoon markets successful Kollegal, Ramanagara and Sidlaghatta, could besides trigger a ripple effect, with the onslaught apt to interaction cocoon prices and, successful turn, sericulture farmers.

The protestation astatine T. Narsipura besides drew environmentalists nether the banner of Parisarakkagi Naavu, led by erstwhile MLA A.T. Ramaswamy. Environmental activistic Parashuramegowda said the radical would proceed to enactment the employees until the authorities of Karnataka drops its program to physique a stadium.

He pointed retired that the five-acre filature premises big hundreds of trees, galore implicit a period old, supporting a affluent ecosystem of birds, animals, insects and butterflies. “Destroying specified biodiversity for a stadium is unjustified,” helium said.

Mysuru MP Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, who visited the protestation tract connected February 24, said helium had written to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah opposing the project. He questioned the rationale of gathering a stadium wrong a functioning factory, particularly erstwhile Mysuru silk sarees — produced from earthy silk supplied by the portion — proceed to bask beardown demand.

He besides underscored the humanities value of the factory, established successful 1912 by Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar, and called for its preservation.