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| Mamata moots railway factory on 600 acre at Singur
Last Updated: 2009-09-08 21:48:21
Kolkata: Railway minister Mamata Banerjee today said that if required there could be a railway factory on 600 acre land, where the Tatas were setting up its small-car Nano project, but later they withdrew.
Last October, the Tatas decided to withdraw its small car Nano project from Singur following protests against land acquisition.
"If required, we can set up a Railway factory on 600 acre of land," Banerjee said at a party rally at Sikarpur in North 24-Parganas district.
Banerjee, who had made agitation against farm land acquisition her main poll plank in last Lok Sabha elections, reiterated her demand for return of 400 acre at the abandoned Singur project site to farmers.
Reacting to Tata group Chairman Ratan Tata's statement that he was ready to return the land at Singur if compensated by the state government, Banerjee said: "Now I find they (Left Front government) have been trying to rope in a Chinese company (FAW) there."
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