A CHIMUL director demanded Rs 40/litre for milk producers hit by drought at the Appegowdanahalli cooperative's AGM, urging farmers to join a September 22 Bengaluru protest; the meeting itself descended into chaos over invitation disputes and allegations against the society secretary.
B. Virupakshappa, Sidlaghatta's first Municipal Council President, turned his home into a school for four years and donated 13 acres of land plus Rs 30,000 to build the town's first permanent high school, which later educated Prema Karanth and generations of students.
Kisan Silk Industries, the Melur silk-reeling factory inaugurated by Sir M. Visvesvaraya in 1952, gave hundreds of rural women their first regular paid employment and economic independence in Sidlaghatta taluk, Chikkaballapura district.
