The government of Narendra Modi has always maintained that Gujarat epitomises good governance. But transparency, a prominent feature of good governance, is missing when it comes to information about the Nano project agreement with the Tatas.
Miss Mamata Banerjee today announced that the farmers who had been dispossessed of their land measuring about 400 acres for the small car project in Singur could start cultivation on their lands any time now.
Since Tata Motors has shifted the Nano project from Singur, the company will have to meet the cost of land acquisition, development and the police protection that was provided for two years. The state government should issue a global expression of interest to set up an automobile plant in the area
Singur: Four persons were injured when members of the Nano Bachao Committee, a pressure group formed by erst-while contractors of the abandoned project, and Trinamool Congress supporters clashed on Sunday. Agitators intercepted TMC leader Partho Chattopadhyay
Tata Motors will return the land leased out for the Nano project, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told his allies at a Left Front meeting today.
Kolkata: Even as the West Bengal government is planning to set up another industry on the land in Singur from where Tata Motors pulled out its Nano project, the Trinamool Congress is set to intensify its stir for the return of plots acquired for the project to farmers who had not taken compensation.
Procession planned
The idea behind the car factory in Singur was one of using market principles of growth to transform a predominantly agrarian society. This idea, envisaged by the state government, failed because it did not take into account the important aspect of the value of land to peasants and the dignity it accorded to them.
