By Special Correspondent
KOLKATA: The Tata Motors authorities have supported the initiatives announced by the West Bengal government for the residents of the Singur area, where it has acquired land for its small car-manufacturing project.
The State government on Sunday, through advertisements in newspapers, made an “Offer of Rehabilitation Package for Project Affected Persons in Singur” to provide a sustainable economic alternative and additional monetary compensation to farmers whose land was acquired for the Nano project site that spans 997.11 acres.
This comes in the wake of discord between the government and the Trinamool Congress and its allies who have been demanding that 300 acres, allegedly acquired without consent from farmers who have not accepted compensation, be returned to the farmers.
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, at a meeting with Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee here on September 12, expressed his government’s inability to provide more than 70 acres from the site as it did not want to disturb the integrated nature of the auto-cluster comprising the mother plant and the vendor park.
Besides the 70 acres, Mr. Bhattacharjee proposed a slew of measures incorporated in a package aimed at providing sustainable economic rehabilitation and attractive monetary compensation to all farmers whose land had been acquired. The meeting fell through.
At a public meeting in Burdwan on Sunday, he renewed his appeal to the Trinamool Congress and its allies to accept the package and sit for talks. “We do not want war. We want industry,” he said.
Tata Motors, in a statement, hoped that the government initiative “would evoke a positive response from the residents of Singur and that all stakeholders will contribute to create a congenial environment...” (END) Source : The Hindu
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