MLA: Pharma company must compensate govt

TNN | Apr 27, 2020, 04:20 IST

Mysuru: Even as senior IAS officer Harsh Gupta has started a probe into how the Covid-19 cluster developed at the Jubilant Generics plant at Nanjangud, MLA B Harshavardhan said the government should ask the pharmaceutical unit to compensate the government for expenditure to contain the virus in the temple town. He said at Nanjangud on Sunday that he will not allow the plant to reopen until it compensates the government.
This comes on a day when district minister S T Somashekar said he had asked chief minister B S Yediyurappa to probe the Nanjangud case. Following the request, Gupta was appointed to get to the bottom of the matter. He said the growth rate of the virus has been curbed. Both Mysuru and Nanjangud will come back to normal owing to decrease in the number of cases, he said.