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| Nano vendors want Bengal govt to come clean |
| BS Reporter / Kolkata Sep 11, 2008, 00:47 IST |
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After Tata Motors’ warning to the West Bengal government against taking steps that would disturb its commitment on the integrated nature of the Nano car factory at Singur, a group of vendors attached to the factory has asked the state government to brief them on any such steps planned by the state government.
In a letter to the state commerce and industries department, the vendors reportedly complained that they were being kept in the dark while being instructed to stop work at the project site under the terms of the agreement hammered out between the government and the Trinamool Congress-led Opposition under the guidance of West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi on September 7.
The vendors indicated that they would like the government to come clean and brief them on the actual situation, as they apprehended that the government could be taking decisions or making commitments which could impact their projects or the viability of their investments.
Some vendors have almost completed their projects, like the Caparo Group, which was part of the core operations of the plant as it was making the structural panels for the Nano.
Commenting on an issue that was being handled by state ministers and Mamata Banerjee of TC, West Bengal industry secretary Sabyasachi Sen admitted today that some vendors had expressed dissatisfaction over the decision to stop work at ancillary units for seven days.
A four-member committee would submit its report within a week on the quantum of land in the factory complex that could be returned to farmers.
The committee, comprising West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) managing director Subrata Gupta and Hugli District Magistrate Neelam Meena from the government side and Rabindranath Bhattacharya and Becharam Manna from the Trinamool Congress, today examined the Singur site and would meet at the WBIDC office on September 11 to discuss their findings.
While TC chief Mamata Banerjee had said the team’s task was to locate 300 acres within the Tata Motors project area and 100 acres outside, the Tatas and the state government had ruled out changing the landholding pattern of the 660- acre car plant and 290 acre ancillary zone in the 997-acre complex.
Sources in the Trinamool Congress admitted that the differences had arisen because the TC and Singur locals had no idea of the status of the project work inside the walled-off 997-acre factory premises, and believed that up to 300 acres inside (including part of the vendor park) was still lying untouched and therefore could be returned to the “unwilling farmers” for their use. In contrast, TML and the government, which enjoyed a free-hand inside the factory site, insisted that the factory and vendor park were 85 per cent complete and the two zones could no longer be “touched”.
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