Mamata Banerjee to return land to farmers of Singur within 15-20 days

West Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee has indicated that the process of returning the land at Singur to the landowners will be completed in the coming 15-20 days. Singur was the erstwhile site of the Tata Motor's Nano factory which got scrapped midway due to agitation by Mamata Banerjee, who was, at that time, in the opposition.
Her agitation forced Tata Motors to abandon their project in Singur and move out to Sanand in Gujarat in 2008.
This has been reported in business-standard.com dated 17 October 2016.

The chief minister has said that the process of giving physical possession of land in Singur will be completed in 15-20 days and has added that she would be present there personally. She has claimed that 80 per cent of the 997 acres of land at the site have been made "ready for farming".
Incidentally, Tata Motors' had filled up the land with fly-ash and had also constructed concrete-steel buildings to go ahead with their Nano project but, it had to be shelved midway in face of stiff opposition from Mamata Banerjee and her party - the Trinamool Congress.
After relocation to Gujarat, Tata Motors was still in possession of the land and, in August this year, the Supreme Court quashed the Left Front-led West Bengal government's acquisition of 997 acres of agricultural land in 2008 for Tata Motors. The court also directed the present Trinamool Congress government, led by Mamata Banerjee, to re-distribute the land to its owners within 12 weeks.


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