Will Singur-type problems hit investment growth?
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17/09/2008
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Business Standard (New Delhi)
DEBATE
Business Standard / New Delhi September 17, 2008, 3:31 IST
Since most projects can be shifted to other states, the problem will be minimal, especially if industry can find ways to make farmers partners in their profits.
RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHARRAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR,
Member of Parliament and President, FICCI
For every Singur, there is an example of fairly successful land acquisition somewhere else in the country
The Indian economy over the last decade is a more diversified economy that ever before. Therefore, any claims of slowdown (as true as that possible slowdown may be) being linked to land acquisition issues is laughable. Admittedly, with economy on its growth drive, the appetite for land for use by business is clearly on the rise