Statesman News Service
KOLKATA, Sept. 11: The state government is prepared to provide to the unwilling farmers of Singur 100 acres of land ~ 40 acres from within the project area and the rest from outside. But the Trinamul Congress wants all the 100 acres within the project area, an official of the state industries department said today. “In order to save the project we are willing to buy around 50-60 acres outside the project area. We are ready to part with the 40 acres within the project site still with the WBIDC. But the Opposition members are seeking 100 acres within the project site,” the official said. However, the Trinamul Congress representatives on the committee set up for locating land within Tatas small car project area and outside claimed they could identify 300 acres within the project area that could be returned to the unwilling farmers. The two other members of the committee ~ Mr Subrata Gupta, managing director, WBIDC and Ms Neelam Meena, district magistrate, Hooghly, weren't convinced by the Trinamul's position. After a three-hour long meeting, the Trinamul MLA, Mr Rabindranath Bhattacharjee, said: ”We visited the project area yesterday and have identified about 300 acres of land from the project area that could be returned to the unwilling farmers. Today we showed to the DM and MD these areas with the help of a map. ‘’ Later in the evening, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Partha Chatterjee, met the Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi to apprise him of the progress of the committee's work in locating land. Mr Chatterjee complained to the Governor that the industries minister had adopted an inflexible attitude since the accord between the state government and the Trinamul-led Opposition was reached at Raj Bhavan. “Such an attitude is becoming a stumbling block in resolving the dispute,” he said. The Trinamul MLA, however, said the committee’s session during the day was held in a cordial atmosphere. If necessary, time would be extended and an interim report would be submitted to the Governor, he said. The Trinamul representatives gave some proposals to the state government, he added.The CPI-M Politburo member, Mr Sitaram Yechury, who visited Mr Jyoti Basu at a city nursing home, said a way out of the Singur impasse would definitely be found after the committee set up for determining the modalities for locating land from within the project site and adjacent areas completed its work. He hoped the committee would reach a satisfactory conclusion. Another Politburo member, Mrs Brinda Karat, said the Trinamul’s insistence that 300 acres would have to be given from within the project area to the unwilling farmers was “not in keeping with the spirit of the discussion at Raj Bhavan.” (END) Source: The Statesman
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