Panel To Fix Land Compensation For Farmers

Manisha Choudhury, Tamal Sengupta & Sutanuka Ghosal
KOLKATA

IN a move aimed to retain and secure mega corporate investments for the state, the West Bengal government announced on Sunday night that it has decided to give maximum land to Singur farmers in order to meet the demands of Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee.

West Bengal Climbs Down On Land-For-Land Plan
Our Bureau KOLKATA

THE crucial governor-mediated talks between the West Bengal government and Trinamool Congress to resolve the Singur impasse on Friday closed unfinished but on a positive note. The Buddhadeb government, climbing down from its earlier resistance to land-for-land proposal, agreed to distribute land to farmers who have declined to accept state compensation. State commerce & industry minister Nirupam Sen said the government will purchase Trinamoolidentified land outside the Nano complex.

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Governor requests Opposition to suspend agitation; traffic resumes near Tata Motors project site

A step forward: West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi with the former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court, Chittatosh Mukerjee (left) at the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata on Friday.

KOLKATA:

The Tatas have sounded the Uttarakhand government on the possibility of shifting the small-car project to Pantnagar if they decide to leave Singur, a top government official said.

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Says they were held in a spirit of understanding and would be resumed today

KOLKATA: The much-anticipated talks between representatives of the West Bengal government and the Trinamool Congress to break the deadlock over the Tata Motors project at Singur were held here on Friday, six hours later than originally planned.

Though the three-hour discussions at the Raj Bhavan were inconclusive, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, who chaired the talks, described the exercise as

Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 6, 2008, 0:33 IST

After a delayed three-hour meeting between the West Bengal government and the opposition in the presence of Governor Gopal Gandhi, a breakthrough in the impasse over compensating land-losers who refused payment for the land acquired for the Tata Motors Nano factory complex appeared more probable with

KOLKATA

The state govern ment has offered

BY SUBRATA CHATTOPADHYAY AND KAUSHIK PRADHAN
KOLKATA

Friday

BY RINA CHANDRAN
NEW DELHI

A colonial-era law for land acquisitions in India has helped trip up several industrial projects, including Tata Motors