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Post Singur verdict, Mamata extends new land deal to Tata group

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Mamata Banerjee government in Bengal has extended a cordial hand to Tata Group post Singur verdict. After spearheading the campaign that led to Tata being ousted, she has put forward a proposal offering land for an industrial hub to the company. State finance minister Amit Mitra said, “We have a land bank and a land map. We can also give 1,000 acres in Goaltore in West Midnapore. In Raghunathpur in Purulia, 2,600 acres of land is ready. We had kept the land for a railway corridor, but we have also kept 600 acres of land for industry separately. If Tata is serious, we can talk about it and the area can be prepared as an industrial hub.”

The government also hinted at other avenues other than Purulia and said that Kharagpur can also be a venue for a future Tata project. “We have kept free 800 acres of land in Kharagpur. In Panagarh area of Bardhaman, 700 acres of land is available. Tata Steel or Tata Metaliks can also set up industry there. It is not obligatory that Tata Motors has to do business there,” Mitra said.

An official of the state government said, is “not in a position to pay the compensation” in cash but is “keen” to give land to the Tatas “along with a slew business-friendly measures”.

The entire issue of compensation comes from a specific clause in the land deal agreement of 2007 between the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation and Tata Motors.  The corporation had indemnified the company against losses that could arise from an imperfect title of the land. Till now Tata Motors has already suffered a loss of ₹309 crore for Singur  and a petition in the Calcutta Court highlighted the side of the company which said that it’s losses were around ₹ 1,400 crore.

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The Singur agitation against The Tata Motors factory is an important event in the political history of Bengal as it marked the last nail in the coffin for the Left Front rule which had been in the state for the past 34 years. The factory was abandoned even before it could be used.

Banerjee will hold a rally in Singur on Wednesday to celebrate the “victory of the farmers” following the Supreme Court ruling against acquisition of land there by the erstwhile Left Front government.

During her trip to Munich last week to attract investment in Bengal, Banerjee reached out to the Tata Group and asked Tata Metaliks managing director Sanjiv Paul and Tata Steel India and South East Asia managing director T V Narendran had accompanied her, urging it to “forget one place” when “so many other places are available”.

“They (Tata) can also set up industry. There are so many places available. If you want land, the state government can give land from the land bank. Our land bank is ready, our land policy is ready, our land map is ready. There is no need to face problems. We will face it. Give us the choice. I think options are all open. Forget one place, so many places are available,” she had said.

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