Statesman News Service
KOLKATA/SINGUR, Sept.10: While the Opposition members of the committee formed to determine the modalities for locating maximum land within the project area and adjacent claimed today that there are ample vacant, arable land in the vendors' park which could be returned to the unwilling farmers at Singur, the state government maintained that land filling exercises have already been completed in most of these plots by the ancillary units. The four-member committee today inspected the project site at Singur. Following the visit, two Trinamul Congress representatives on the committee ~ Mr Rabindranath Bhattacharjee and Mr Becharam Manna ~ briefed Miss Mamata Banerjee, the Trinamul Congress chief, and discussed their next course of action. Later Mr Manna said: “We have identified about 250 acres of land within the project area of which 80 per cent are still cultivable as the character of the land is yet to be altered. We have identified vast stretches of vacant land in Joymollah, Sahapara and Gopalnagar areas within the project area.” Mr Subrata Gupta, MD, West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation and the government representative on the committee, briefed the chief minister and industries secretary, Mr Sabyasachi Sen, about their progress. Mr Sen categorically denied the presence of such arable plots. “The MD told me that in most plots the ancillary units have begun land filling exercise with fly-ash being dumped to raise the level of the ground as the land is quite low lying, even if they have not started constructing the sheds. There is little land which can be termed as vacant,” said Mr Sen. The government maintains only 40 acre land can be provided while keeping the project intact. The secretary also added once the quantum of land is identified by the committee it would seek legal advice to decide on the modalities for providing this land to the land losing families. The committee would again meet tomorrow. Miss Banerjee is preparing a dossier on Hindustan Motors where the entire unit is thriving on 410 acres. According to Miss Banerjee, Hindustan Motors is a labour intensive unit with a staff strength of 4,500 but Nano, being a more sophisticated car should require much less area than Hindustan Motors. Meanwhile, a section of landlosers who willingly gave their lands for the vendors’ park have opposed the move to give back land to unwilling farmers. “We have given our land solely for the Tata factory. We wouldn’t allow our land to be given to those who opposed the project,” said Sheikh Sohrab Ali, whose family has given up 25 bighas of land.. On the other hand, over a thousand supporters of the CPI (ML-Liberation) took out a rally in Singur demanding compensation for agricultural labourers and unrecorded sharecroppers of the acquired area. (END) Source : The Statesman
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