Pradeep Gooptu / New Delhi April 11, 2009, 0:07 IST
Sh Zahir Haq lost his farmland to the Nano factory, but still applied for a car, when bookings for the Tata Motors Rs 1 lakh car opened at Singur on April 9.
And he is not alone: an appreciable number of Singur residents booked the Nano through the bank branches in the area, with the State Bank of India (SBI) branch as the nodal point.
After deciding to withdraw the Nano project from Singur in West Bengal in October last year, Tata Motors had sought 10 months from West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) to remove the equipment.
KOLKATA: There may be a possibility of the Tatas using the Singur facility later, if local objections can be resolved through dialogue, West Bengal Industry Secretary Sabyasachi Sen has said.
"It feels like your father left your mother for another woman and then married her." That's how Bikash Pakira, a 31-year-old in Singur, describes his sense of betrayal at Tata Motors' decision to pull out of West Bengal last year, and roll out its small car Nano from somewhere miles away.
A project larger than the Nano that Bengal lost to Gujarat is going waste because the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government is bungling in Bantala after slipping in Singur.
Pradeep Gooptu / Kolkata/singur February 03, 2009, 0:03 IST
The 997-acre plot in Singur handed over by the West Bengal government to Tata Motors is likely to remain in the hands of the company and can be returned only after a year or so.
