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Mon, 09/22/2008 - 10:06
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Further delay will result in Tatas leaving Bengal: Buddha
Kolkata, Sept 21 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday bluntly said the Tatas would leave the state if there is any further delay in accepting the new rehabilitation package for Singur farmers.
The chief minister, who a day earlier met Governor
Gopalkrishna Gandhi to inform him that he was open for talks
with the Trinamool Congress on the new package, appealed to
the opposition parties to withdraw their agitation.
The new rehabilitation package provides for 70 acres of
land from within the project area and compensation.
"I appeal to the opposition parties to accept the
government's package on the land acquisition at Singur for the
Tata Motors factory and withdraw the agitation. If there is
any further delay this project will leave West Bengal," he
said in a statement.
The Chief Minister's statement came in the backdrop of
a number of states offering land and incentives to Tata Motors
to set up the Nano project.
"The project will go out of West Bengal if there is
further delay, therefore without any more loss of time Tata
Motors and ancillary units should be given the opportunity to
resume work at Singur," he said.
"Let all of us take the initiative to successfully
implement this promising project in the interest of the state,
the entire people of Singur and future generations," he said.
While the government and the opposition locked horns
over the land agreement on September 7 at the Raj Bhavan, the
governor yesterday urged both sides "to persevere with their
discussion in the interest of a solution."
The Chief Minister has not softened his stand on return
of land beyond 70 acres from within the project area, while
the Trinamool Congess has demanded return of 300 acres from
within and 100 acres from outside to "unwilling" land-losers.
Work at the Tata Motors Nano project at Singur stopped
after labourers on their way to an ancillary unit and a
trolley van-puller were assaulted on August 27 allegedly by
Trinamool workers who had laid siege to the small car factory
demanding that 400 acres be returned to landlosers who were
unwilling to part with their land.
On September 2, Tata Motors said that it was
constrained to suspend construction and commissioning work at
Singur in view of the continued confrontation and agitation at
the site.
The 'dharna' was lifted following a meeting between
Bhattacharjee and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in
the presence of governor on September 7. Work at the Tata
Motors factory has, however, not resumed. PTI PKC
The chief minister, who a day earlier met Governor
Gopalkrishna Gandhi to inform him that he was open for talks
with the Trinamool Congress on the new package, appealed to
the opposition parties to withdraw their agitation.
The new rehabilitation package provides for 70 acres of
land from within the project area and compensation.
"I appeal to the opposition parties to accept the
government's package on the land acquisition at Singur for the
Tata Motors factory and withdraw the agitation. If there is
any further delay this project will leave West Bengal," he
said in a statement.
The Chief Minister's statement came in the backdrop of
a number of states offering land and incentives to Tata Motors
to set up the Nano project.
"The project will go out of West Bengal if there is
further delay, therefore without any more loss of time Tata
Motors and ancillary units should be given the opportunity to
resume work at Singur," he said.
"Let all of us take the initiative to successfully
implement this promising project in the interest of the state,
the entire people of Singur and future generations," he said.
While the government and the opposition locked horns
over the land agreement on September 7 at the Raj Bhavan, the
governor yesterday urged both sides "to persevere with their
discussion in the interest of a solution."
The Chief Minister has not softened his stand on return
of land beyond 70 acres from within the project area, while
the Trinamool Congess has demanded return of 300 acres from
within and 100 acres from outside to "unwilling" land-losers.
Work at the Tata Motors Nano project at Singur stopped
after labourers on their way to an ancillary unit and a
trolley van-puller were assaulted on August 27 allegedly by
Trinamool workers who had laid siege to the small car factory
demanding that 400 acres be returned to landlosers who were
unwilling to part with their land.
On September 2, Tata Motors said that it was
constrained to suspend construction and commissioning work at
Singur in view of the continued confrontation and agitation at
the site.
The 'dharna' was lifted following a meeting between
Bhattacharjee and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in
the presence of governor on September 7. Work at the Tata
Motors factory has, however, not resumed. PTI PKC
