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Tatas ready to return Singur land if compensated
Kolkata, Sep 1 (PTI) Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata
Tuesday said the group was ready to return the land at Singur
in West Bengal if the state government compensated it for
investments made there.
"We do not want to sit on the land. We will return it if
the state government compensates us for the investments made
there," Tata told reporters on the sidelines of Tata Tea's AGM
here in the capital of eastern state of West Bengal.
Tata Motors had been given around 997 acres of land at
Singur by the state government on lease for setting up its
'Nano' car production plant, now shifted to Sanand in Gujarat.
The company had to abandon the project last October after
Trinamool Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee, organised a
prolonged agitation demanding return of 400 acres of the
allotted land to farmers. The party alleged that the land was
forcibly acquired.
The company had earlier announced that it had made an
investment of around Rs 1,500 crore. Tata said that Tata
Motors did not have any plan for Singur at the moment.
"We are ready to cooperate with the state government if
it had any plans with the land", he said.
Asked whether the state government had given any fresh
proposal regarding the land, he said that there were no
proposals from either side. (MORE) PTI dc
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