Singur

Singur's industrial promise was undone by flawed land acquisition and a costly return to agriculture. Reviving it through farmer-led industrial parks could restore value and growth

Tata Motors secured an arbitral award of Rs 766 crore, with 11 per cent interest in the Singur plant case against the West Bengal government

Arbitral Tribunal also allows it to recover Rs 1 cr towards the cost of proceedings

On a sunny afternoon just two days before Durga Puja in 2008, then Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata had announced to pull out the ambitious Nano small car project from Singur in West Bengal's

BJP National Secretary Anupam Hazra asked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to remove former Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee's name from the pages of history books of the Madhya Shiksha Parshad.

Industry and IT Minister Partha Chatterjee has said talks are on with the Tatas for big-ticket investments in the state.

In Singur, everyone is riding the industry plank in varying degrees. Banerjee, however, has her welfare schemes to rely on, and there are beneficiaries galore

Lockdown has brought lives of a large section to a standstill, with shops shut and people hesitant to go out

Tata Motors has filed a statement of claims amounting to nearly Rs 934 plus interest

Singur, in Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency, rose to national fame in 2006-2007 amid an anti-land acquisition movement against the Left Front government

Curtains came down on Tata Motor's Nano project in West Bengal on October 3, 2008

The West Bengal government is planning to auction the metal scrap and car sheds of Tata Motors lying at the stackyard in Singur, Hooghly

Earlier, the court had cancelled the deal through which the former Left government in Bengal had given land in Singur to Tata Motors

The Bench also ruled that the land acquisition process in Singur for the car project was faulty and was not for public purpose

Govt officials working overtime to dismantle the Tata plant and return land to farmers

The ranks of farmers wanting their land back in other parts of West Bengal have been growing

The acquisition process was bad in law but the reconversion of land for agriculture may be another mistake. Is there a way out?

The apex court had told the West Bengal Government to hand the land back to the farmers in the next 12 weeks

Supreme Court recently struck down the acquisition of 997.11 acres of land by the then CPI-M-led Left Front government in Bengal's Singur

States with high population density must re-imagine industrialisation