Bs Reporter / Kolkata August 27, 2008, 0:35 IST

Sajjan Jindal, vice-chairman and managing director of JSW Steel and one of West Bengal's most valued investors, said that he would have compensated unwilling farmers with double the land

"Singur is an exceptional case and not a general feature of the State'

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said land at the Singur Tata Motors project site could not be returned without scrapping the project. Many industrialists present at a meeting here, however, urged the government to try and resolve the matter by talking directly with the farmers who are said to be demanding their land back.

Ready to discuss "anything' with her to solve problem: Buddhadeb
You cannot buy us and our struggle, Mamata tells Tatas

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday said discussions on the Singur crisis could be held only on condition that the land allegedly acquired forcibly for the Tata Motors project be handed back to farmers.

JAIPUR: Not to be left behind in what could now be termed the "Nano car race' among the States, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has offered land and all "necessary logistic support' to the Tata group to wheel in the small car project to this desert State after the company's threat to pull out of Singur in West Bengal.

Rajasthan is the fourth State to invite the Tatas for setting up the car unit after Maharashtra, Punjab and Orissa.

Mosquito repellents used by policemen on night patrol along the expressway. (Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya)

New Delhi, Aug. 25: If the Bengal government wants to return some of the Singur land to the original owners, it can bypass the legal difficulties by enacting a law in the Assembly, legal experts say.

One reason the state has cited to reject Mamata Banerjee's demand to hand back 400 acres to unwilling landlosers is that the law doesn't allow return of acquired land.

Bs Reporter / Kolkata August 26, 2008, 0:37 IST

Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee today rejected a fresh invitation from West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for talks to break the deadlock at the upcoming Tata Motors' Nano plant at Singur near here.

Banerjee started an indefinite dharna at Singur on Sunday, demanding that the 400 acres taken from "unwilling farmers' for the project should be returned to them. The company can instead be given 500 acres of land nearby, she has said.

Jayati Ghosh

Nandini Sen Gupta NEW DELHI

THE Tata Motors top management has reportedly indicated internally that the company will pull the plug on Singur if the situation does not improve in the next fortnight. Sources said even though the company can dismantle its Singur plant and install it somewhere else, it will lose Rs 100-200 crore on account of expenses incurred in laying the foundation, besides the inevitable delay in fullscale production of the Nano.

Business Standard / New Delhi August 25, 2008, 0:57 IST

Shishir Prashant / Dehra Dun August 25, 2008, 5:58 IST

Tata Motors may be facing an uncertain future over its Nano project in West Bengal.

But in Uttarakhand, the auto major is seeking concession on lease rent as well as some more land from the state government in the Pantnagar industrial estate, where it has a manufacturing facility for Ace trucks.

Official sources today said the company has demanded that the lease rent for its 1,000-acre industrial plot should be lowered to Re 1 per sq metre from the present rate of Rs 5.