Bengaluru: Even as the government sought to ease the long-standing dispute over compensation for landowners along the 74-km Bengaluru Business Corridor (BBC), farmers stuck to their demand for payments under the 2013 Land Acquisition Act.

They opposed the five types of compensation offered, questioning why the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) was reluctant to follow the law.

"This project is designed to profit at the cost of farmers,” said Mavallipura Srinivas, leading the union of landowners. “We do not oppose the road. We want fair compensation for our losses, not just for the land, but also for the 20 years of land rights we have lost,” he added.

The project, notified in 2005–06, has stalled over compensation, leaving landowners unable to develop, build houses, or mortgage their

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