Tata Motors distressed with Singur deal

Tata Power Buys 11.4% Stake In Australian Firm Mumbai, Sept 8 : Tata Motors on Monday said that it was "distressed" at the limited
clarity on the outcome of talks between the Government of West Bengal
and protesters over the Singur issue.

 

The company said that
the deal on Nano project in Singur lacks clarity and that it would only
review its position in the plant for the low-cost Nano car, where work
was suspended last week, if it was confident that the viability of the
project was not impinged.

 

No employee of Tata
Motors or its contractors entered the factory in Singur today, the day
after an agreement was reached to lift the siege on it.

 

On Sunday, the West
Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi had mediated a pact between the
Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the State Government over the disputed
farmland acquired for the project.

 

The agreement was
reached on Sunday after a series of meetings between West Bengal
Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee. 

 

Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee had called off her 15-day-long siege of the plant last night after the deal.

 

It was agreed that
the State Government would form a committee to look into the affected
farmers'' demands and report in seven days. Till then the construction
of the ancillary units will be on hold.

 

The agreement said
that the Government has taken the decision to respond to the demand of
those farmers who have not received compensation, by means of land to
be provided to the maximum within the project area and the rest in
adjacent areas as early as possible.

 

Last week the Tata
Motors, which is building a factory for the world''s cheapest car
priced at Rs one lakh in Singur, stopped work indefinitely at the
project site following an agitation by farmers led by the TMC. (ANI)

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