Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Shivaji Chatterjee Vs Himadri Chemical & Others dated 16/01/2018 regarding pollution caused by Himadri Chemicals, Singur, West Bengal. The Applicant Shivaji Chatterjee prays for an interim direction for inspection of the unit by a Committee which …
Pradeep Gooptu / Kolkata/singur February 03, 2009, 0:03 IST The 997-acre plot in Singur handed over by the West Bengal government to Tata Motors is likely to remain in the hands of the company and can be returned only after a year or so. According to sources in the state …
The government of Narendra Modi has always maintained that Gujarat epitomises good governance. But transparency, a prominent feature of good governance, is missing when it comes to information about the Nano project agreement with the Tatas.
Miss Mamata Banerjee today announced that the farmers who had been dispossessed of their land measuring about 400 acres for the small car project in Singur could start cultivation on their lands any time now. She warned that any attempt to bulldoze the farmers will have serious consequences. While observing …
Since Tata Motors has shifted the Nano project from Singur, the company will have to meet the cost of land acquisition, development and the police protection that was provided for two years. The state government should issue a global expression of interest to set up an automobile plant in the …
Singur: Four persons were injured when members of the Nano Bachao Committee, a pressure group formed by erst-while contractors of the abandoned project, and Trinamool Congress supporters clashed on Sunday. Agitators intercepted TMC leader Partho Chattopadhyay
Tata Motors will return the land leased out for the Nano project, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told his allies at a Left Front meeting today. Bhattacharjee clarified that the Tatas had never insisted on retaining the land after shifting the small-car plant out of Singur.
Kolkata: Even as the West Bengal government is planning to set up another industry on the land in Singur from where Tata Motors pulled out its Nano project, the Trinamool Congress is set to intensify its stir for the return of plots acquired for the project to farmers who had …
The idea behind the car factory in Singur was one of using market principles of growth to transform a predominantly agrarian society. This idea, envisaged by the state government, failed because it did not take into account the important aspect of the value of land to peasants and the dignity …
Pran Chopra THIS QUESTION has many possible answers, and all of them have implications, some extending far out of Singur, some even out of West Bengal. The question will become easier to answer when
Gargi Parsai Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee with Samajwadi Party leaders Amar Singh, Jayaprada and others coming out after submitting a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil on the Singur issue, in New Delhi on Tuesday. NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, along with Trinamool Congress president Mamata Banerjee, …
State governments offer incredulous incentives to lure Tata in the last few days Maharashtra and West Bengal witnessed two diametrically opposite developments. In Maharashtra, for the first time in the history of this country, affected farmers voted in a referendum on the upcoming Reliance special economic zone (sez). Initial results …
Press Trust of India KOLKATA, Oct 12: The Tatas may have driven Nano out of Singur, but the site is soon going to be taken over by another car-manufacturing company, West Bengal transport minister Mr Subhas Chakraborty claimed here today.
Pradeep Gooptu / New Delhi October 12, 2008, 0:39 IST The dice appears to be loaded heavily in favour of the Left parties. The departure of Tata Motors from Singur has left two unanswered questions