Singur panel seeks more time for report

  • 12/09/2008

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)

Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 12, 2008, 0:09 IST A committee constituted under the aegis of the governor of West Bengal, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, may seek more time to submit its final report on land to be provided to the agitating farmers. After a three-hour meeting, Rabindranath Bhattacharjee, Trinamool Congress MLA and chairman of the committee, said that the committee could submit an interim report and then seek more time for its final report. The report was to be submitted within seven days of the agreement forged between the West Bengal government and the agitating farmers side represented by the Trinamool Congress. The possibility of stretching the deadline stemmed from the stalemate over the quantum of land to be provided to the agitating farmers. Bhattacharjee said that 300 acres could be given from the project site. He also added that the government was not agreeable to it though discussions were held in a congenial atmosphere. However, he added that the state government side, represented by West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation