-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,...

-The Telegraph   The flow of farmers to fill up forms for land return in singur thinned to a trickle today, the “lack of hurry” attributed to yesterday’s Supreme Court stay on distribution of plots. Pulak Sarkar, the block development officer (BDO) of singur, said only 106 forms were submitted between 10 am and 7pm today. “Yesterday, we had received 250 forms. Altogether, 1,590 forms have been submitted since Sunday,” he said. The 15...

-The Business Standard   By staying the state government’s hand on the return of the land acquired by the Tatas for their automobile project in singur, the Supreme Court has injected some sense into the handling of the matter. The Mamata Banerjee government created an avoidable mess with its hasty decision to find a legislative way out of a difficult political situation. Even as the Calcutta High Court was hearing the...

West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee moves closer to keeping her promise to return to ‘unwilling' farmers the land given to Tata Motors. WITH the passage of the singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Bill, 2011, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee got one step closer to keeping the promise made to the people of singur that she would reclaim the land allocated to Tata Motors and return it to “unwilling” farmers (that...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday halted Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government's programme of redistribution of the land to farmers which acquired by the previous government for Tata Motors' Nano car project at singur in the state. The apex court asked the Calcutta High Court to decide within one month the legality of singur Land Rehabilitation and Development (SLRD) Act which enables the state government to take back the land and...