Bs Reporters / Kolkata September 17, 2008, 0:50 IST

Mamata Banerjee today hinted that the Trinamool Congress and its allies could resume the agitation for return of 300 acres inside the 997-acre Tata Motors Nano factory at Singur, and another 100 acres around it, because the West Bengal government had violated the agreement reached with the Opposition at a meeting chaired by Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi on September 7.

DEBATE
Business Standard / New Delhi September 17, 2008, 3:31 IST

Since most projects can be shifted to other states, the problem will be minimal, especially if industry can find ways to make farmers partners in their profits.

RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHARRAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR,
Member of Parliament and President, FICCI

For every Singur, there is an example of fairly successful land acquisition somewhere else in the country

M J Antony / New Delhi September 17, 2008, 3:30 IST

The more the Supreme Court writes, the more the land owners seem to lose.

-Nano shell in the making

TAPAS CHAKRABORTY

The Nano: On course
Pantnagar, Sept. 15: Amid efforts to ensure the Nano rollout from Bengal, a Tata Mo- tors team that had been engaged in Singur has been making up for lost time by working on the car

DURGAPUR, Sept. 15: The Trinamul Congress today launched an indefinite blockade at the Damodar Valley Corporation

A K Bhattacharya / New Delhi September 16, 2008, 3:03 IST

The political management of any large industrial project is as important as its economic management.

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee may have succeeded in dissuading Tata Motors from pulling out of Singur, where it had planned to manufacture the much-trumpeted Nano car. But the damage the entire controversy has caused to Bhattacharjee

Bs Reporter / Mumbai September 16, 2008, 0:14 IST

It happens only in India. One Mamata Banerjee, 40,000 furious protesters and a coalition of unnatural allies shut down a highway, hold a state to ransom and drive out an iconic investor like Ratan Tata and investments worth Rs 1,500 crore.

Tata Motors on Sunday came out in support of Chief Minister Buddadeb Bhattacharjee whose offer of a fresh package for farmers whose land was taken has been rejected by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee. In a press statement issued by the company, the Tatas appreciated the package offered by the state Government and said it was hopeful that the initiatives would generate favourable response from the farmers, creating a positive atmosphere in Singur.

GOING by the volume and intensity of India Inc's support for Ratan Tata, West Bengal would be in deep trouble if the Nano doesn't drive out of Singur. A leading industry association head went as far to say that the state could "kiss its industrial dreams goodbye".