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| Tata Motors vs Mamata Govt in court |
| Tata Motors vs Mamata Govt in court over Singur
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| INDIA
, 22-June-2011
2:18:28 AM |
| Tata Motors has taken Mamata Banerjee's government to court over her decision to reclaim the land at Singur allotted to the company in 2007. The Calcutta High Court will hear the case later this afternoon.
Late last evening, a government notice was pasted at the gate of the Tata's Singur factory, asking it to vacate the premises. Police then arrived to help local administration officials, who locked the factory gate at 1 am.
The government's action is based on the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Bill, 2011 which was passed on June 14 by the West Bengal Assembly; the Opposition walked out in protest. The bill allows the government to revoke a 99-year lease signed by the Left when it was in power for 997 acres of land. Tata Motors says it's challenging the entire bill in the Calcutta High Court.
The land at Singur was meant to host a huge manufacturing plant for the Tata Nano car. After repeated protests - some of them violent - by farmers supported by Ms Banerjee's party, the Trinmaool Congress (TMC), Tata abandoned its plant in October, 2008. By this time, it says, it had invested 1800 crores in the Singur factory and had spent another 440 crores on constructing buildings and adding infrastructure
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