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Singur is a census town in Hooghly district of West Bengal. Singur railway station is 34 km from Howrah Station Singur gained international media attention since Tata Motors started constructing a factory to manufacture their Rs. 100000 car, the
The small car was scheduled to roll out of the factory by 2008. The choice of Singur was made by the company among six
Tata Motors is a large publicly traded firm. Its decision to locate the flagship Nano project in West Bengal provides an opportunity for West Bengal to make a return to industrial growth. The experience of China, South Korea and even Tamil Nadu in this decade shows that industries create well-paying jobs at a rate agriculture cannot match[. If the Nano project is
Most of the land acquired for the project was smooth and their landholders were satisfied with the compensation they compensation paid in received. Singur was higher Rs.9 to 12 lakhs/acre against Es.8 to 11 lakhs paid for Tata -Telcon project near Land acquired in Singur was lesser than the other Kaharagpur. project. Singur was 967 acres against 1251 acres for the other project. The land was acquired around the same time in 2006 and work started around same time There were 2251 unwilling farmers in Singur while
A small number of absentee landlords, illiterate farmers and Trinamul Congress supporters refused to accept the compensation offered. Another point to bear in mind is that most of the land-holders never bought the land in the first place; there is no rule of law in rural West Bengal in the normal sense. Agricultural land is doled out to party supporters by local hoodlums aligned with major parties in the name of "land reform". The opposition's assertion that the land is extremely fertile is debatable; the land-holders have not experienced anywhere near Punjab-level agricultural output efficiency or prosperity
Trinamool Congress who were reduced to 30 seats in Assembly and just one MP their one and only "Netri" - Mamata Banerjee,obviously was looking for opportunities to establish their political relevance. There were many - who were looking for relevance - Left Partners, Congress and some aggrieved intellectuals. Also marginalized activists like Medha Patkar.It also gave in opportunity to political groups like SUC and Maoists trying to get a larger foot hold.
So, the famous principle - " Enemy's enemy is friend ". So, people with diverse ideologies and value to No Ideology and No value bunched together with their own Agenda- for Trinamool Congress it was getting back political relevance and fighting the main enemy CPI(M).
There is bunch of Intellectuals who are aggrieved for different reasons - from Buddha Babu's refusal to fund movies to throwing out friend like Taslima Nasreen to ideological differences joined and came out to support the "cause of farmers" in the name of democratic principles. The gullible and emotional Bengalis were moved Mahashweta Devi's symbolic kick ( Lathi in Bengali ) to one of the postsat boundary of land allotted Nano project.
Mamata's Trinamul has created a road-block on NH2 and has virtually stalled all construction activities in Tata's Nano plant. Nandi gram being still fresh in their mind, the ruling party and government in West Bengal is showing utmost patience and restraints. UPA government at center has washed off their hand stating through their spokesperson Priya Dasmunshi that the problem is creation of CM of West Bengal and he alone will have to find a solution. People of West Bengal and more particularly the unemployed youth are watching the Political circus in despair.
On 23rd SEP,Tatas have decided to leave Singur in West Bengal, the decision is reported to have been made by the Tata management and the Bengal government has been informed. On 3 October it has become official that TATA will leave Singur (WB) when Ratan Tata announced it in a press conference in Kolkata.
While the ruling party has gone all out for acquisition of 997 acres (404 ha) of multi-crop land required for the car factory, questions have been raised about the partly allegedly forcible acquisition which was made under the colonial Land Acquisition Act of 1894. Even the provisions by the Kolkata High Court. of this act have allegedly not been met. The law has provisions for state taking over privately held land for public purposes but not for The Tata Motors site is the most fertile one in the whole of the Singur, and the Singur block, in turn, is among the most highly fertile in West Bengal. Consequently, almost the entire local population depends on agriculture with approximately 15000 making their livelihood directly from. With the number of direct jobs to be created no more than about 1,000, many of which are expected to go to outsiders, the local populace feel understandably threatened for their livelihood Environmental degradation is also feared.
I do not know who achieved what, all that I know that people of Singur ,surrounding areas and people of West Bengal missed an opportunity to grow and prosper. They have been back stabbed by their own people and so called
The entire scam, which stinks of rot and corruption in our political system and rot in our Society especially a large section of intellectuals who have either been very selfish and perverse or have been reckless and lacked wisdom.
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Singur is a census town in Hooghly district of West Bengal. Singur railway station is 34 km from Howrah Station Singur gained international media attention since Tata Motors started constructing a factory to manufacture their Rs. 100000 car, the
The small car was scheduled to roll out of the factory by 2008. The choice of Singur was made by the company among six
Tata Motors is a large publicly traded firm. Its decision to locate the flagship Nano project in West Bengal provides an opportunity for West Bengal to make a return to industrial growth. The experience of China, South Korea and even Tamil Nadu in this decade shows that industries create well-paying jobs at a rate agriculture cannot match[. If the Nano project is
Most of the land acquired for the project was smooth and their landholders were satisfied with the compensation they compensation paid in received. Singur was higher Rs.9 to 12 lakhs/acre against Es.8 to 11 lakhs paid for Tata -Telcon project near Land acquired in Singur was lesser than the other Kaharagpur. project. Singur was 967 acres against 1251 acres for the other project. The land was acquired around the same time in 2006 and work started around same time There were 2251 unwilling farmers in Singur while
A small number of absentee landlords, illiterate farmers and Trinamul Congress supporters refused to accept the compensation offered. Another point to bear in mind is that most of the land-holders never bought the land in the first place; there is no rule of law in rural West Bengal in the normal sense. Agricultural land is doled out to party supporters by local hoodlums aligned with major parties in the name of "land reform". The opposition's assertion that the land is extremely fertile is debatable; the land-holders have not experienced anywhere near Punjab-level agricultural output efficiency or prosperity
Trinamool Congress who were reduced to 30 seats in Assembly and just one MP their one and only "Netri" - Mamata Banerjee,obviously was looking for opportunities to establish their political relevance. There were many - who were looking for relevance - Left Partners, Congress and some aggrieved intellectuals. Also marginalized activists like Medha Patkar.It also gave in opportunity to political groups like SUC and Maoists trying to get a larger foot hold.
So, the famous principle - " Enemy's enemy is friend ". So, people with diverse ideologies and value to No Ideology and No value bunched together with their own Agenda- for Trinamool Congress it was getting back political relevance and fighting the main enemy CPI(M).
There is bunch of Intellectuals who are aggrieved for different reasons - from Buddha Babu's refusal to fund movies to throwing out friend like Taslima Nasreen to ideological differences joined and came out to support the "cause of farmers" in the name of democratic principles. The gullible and emotional Bengalis were moved Mahashweta Devi's symbolic kick ( Lathi in Bengali ) to one of the postsat boundary of land allotted Nano project.
Mamata's Trinamul has created a road-block on NH2 and has virtually stalled all construction activities in Tata's Nano plant. Nandi gram being still fresh in their mind, the ruling party and government in West Bengal is showing utmost patience and restraints. UPA government at center has washed off their hand stating through their spokesperson Priya Dasmunshi that the problem is creation of CM of West Bengal and he alone will have to find a solution. People of West Bengal and more particularly the unemployed youth are watching the Political circus in despair.
On 23rd SEP,Tatas have decided to leave Singur in West Bengal, the decision is reported to have been made by the Tata management and the Bengal government has been informed. On 3 October it has become official that TATA will leave Singur (WB) when Ratan Tata announced it in a press conference in Kolkata.
While the ruling party has gone all out for acquisition of 997 acres (404 ha) of multi-crop land required for the car factory, questions have been raised about the partly allegedly forcible acquisition which was made under the colonial Land Acquisition Act of 1894. Even the provisions by the Kolkata High Court. of this act have allegedly not been met. The law has provisions for state taking over privately held land for public purposes but not for The Tata Motors site is the most fertile one in the whole of the Singur, and the Singur block, in turn, is among the most highly fertile in West Bengal. Consequently, almost the entire local population depends on agriculture with approximately 15000 making their livelihood directly from. With the number of direct jobs to be created no more than about 1,000, many of which are expected to go to outsiders, the local populace feel understandably threatened for their livelihood Environmental degradation is also feared.
I do not know who achieved what, all that I know that people of Singur ,surrounding areas and people of West Bengal missed an opportunity to grow and prosper. They have been back stabbed by their own people and so called
The entire scam, which stinks of rot and corruption in our political system and rot in our Society especially a large section of intellectuals who have either been very selfish and perverse or have been reckless and lacked wisdom.
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