On the night of June 21, around 10 p.m., the police of West Bengal’s Hooghly district descended on Tata Motors’ half-built Singur plant and threw out the private guards there. In about half an hour, the new government in West Bengal, under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee, took over the 997 acres that had proved to be the Waterloo of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and its allies. Earlier,...
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Tatas recount first ‘attacks’
-The Telegraph The Tata Motors counsel today told Calcutta High Court that the “first attacks” on the company came in the form of public interest litigations that had questioned the process of land acquisition for the Nano factory in Singur. “In 2007, several PILs were filed in Calcutta High Court challenging the validity of the process of land acquisition in Singur. The government and the company were made respondents (in the PILs)....
More »1,807 farmers in Singur want their land back
-Press Trust of India Altogether 1,807 farmers have submitted applications for return of their land acquired for the Tata Motors Nano project here. The plea for return of land has been made under the new Singur land Rehabilitation and Development Act enacted by the West Bengal government. "Among them, 76 submitted application forms today and three yesterday," sources in the Block Land and Land Revenue office said. On the discrepancy in the notices...
More »Tata plea to amend suit
-The Telegraph Tata Motors today sought Calcutta High Court’s permission to move an ex-parte petition to make amendments to its earlier plea as it had been filed in “great hurry”. The original petition of the Tatas had challenged the constitutional validity of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, through which the government has taken back the land acquired for the Nano project in Singur. A Tata Motors spokesperson said in...
More »Singur survey, day and night
-The Telegraph Industries minister Partha Chatterjee today asked the Hooghly administration to hurry up and complete the Singur land survey in three days, working through the nights if necessary. Sources said the Bengal government was keen to wrap up all the paperwork so that the plots could be immediately handed over to farmers if Calcutta High Court ruled in the state’s favour. “I want the survey completed within three days. If necessary,...
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