Yeddyurappa offer adds to West Bengal pressure
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19/09/2008
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Hindu (New Delhi)
Marcus Dam
Mamata intransigent despite government offering package for sustained economic rehabilitation of farmers
Kolkata: With Karnataka offering Tata Motors required land and incentives if the company relocates its Nano car project from Singur, pressure mounts on the West Bengal government to find a way out of the gridlock on the land acquisition issue.
With Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee not budging from her stand that 300 acres from within the 997.11-acre project area be handed back to around 2,200 farmers who have not accepted compensation (for their plots acquired), the question now is whether the government is headed for a dead-end in its efforts at ending the impasse.
Appeal falls on deaf ears
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee