The member-coffee growers of the defunct Mysore Coffee Curing Co-operative Society (MCCCS) Limited in Mysuru, who met at Ammathi here yesterday, have resolved to go to Court seeking its intervention not to allow the auction of 5 acres land belonging to the Society.

The meeting, held at Ammathi Vyavasaya Parivartana Sahakara Sangha Hall yesterday, also unanimously resolved to acquire the MCCCS land and take up restoration work for the benefit of coffee growers.

Sangha President Mookonda Bose Devaiah, addressing the members, said that the Government Liquidator’s decision to auction the MCCCS land was against the law of the land. The 10 acres land for MCCCS building was acquired in 1953 by the coffee growers of Kodagu, Hassan and Chikmagalur districts for coffee storage and marketing facilities, he added.

Devaiah also pointed out that in 1998, the State Government appointed a Liquidator, who sold 3 acres of the 10 acres MCCCS land and paid the salary dues to the employees.

Cheranda Nanda Subbaiah, a member-coffee grower, who also spoke at the meeting, called upon the coffee-growers to unite and strive to protect the MCCCS land from being auctioned.

Another member-coffee grower Hemachandra said that the coffee growers from the respective districts will try to bring a stay order from a Court against the arbitrary decision of the Government Liquidator to auction MCCCS land.

Reacting to this, another coffee grower Kolathanda A. Subramani said that the Government, which had acquired 1.13 acre land of MCCCS to recover the debt, had earmarked the land for construction of an Co-operative Academy.

Now, when the MCCCS is free of debts and has rented out 13 godowns, how can the Liquidator go ahead with the auction of MCCCS land, he questioned.

Presiding over the meeting, Kuttanda K. Appachu said that it was now inevitable for the coffee growers of the three districts to seek legal recourse to save the Society’s land as the said land was purchased from the proceeds received through sale of shares of MCCCS.

He also alleged that the move to auction 5 acres of Society’s land had been initiated under pressure from some vested interests.

District Maha Mandala President Iynanda Jappu Achappa called upon the coffee growers to gear up for a legal battle to protect the land.

The meeting also resolved to send copies of the resolution to all those concerned.

Coffee grower S. P. Prasanna of Somwarpet, Ex-Servicemen Association President Chendrimada Ganesh Nanjappa, Zilla Panchayat member Bond Ganapathy, K.M. Viju Chettiappa Mookonda Aiyappa, Bose Mandanna of Balele, P.M. Nanda of Halugunda, Mookachanda Arun Appanna, Patrapanda Raghu Nanaiah were among the coffee growers present at the meeting.

It may be recalled that the Liquidator of the MCCCS, Mysuru, in an advertisement published in Mysooru Mithra on June 18, 2015, had declared holding of a meeting of MCCCS in Ammathi was in violation of Section 73 of the Karnataka Co-operative Societies Act 1959.

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