This Article is From Aug 02, 2009

Mamata for rail coach factory at Singur

Mamata for rail coach factory at Singur
Singur:

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday that her ministry was prepared to set up a rail coach factory at Singur, provided 600 acres of the 1000-acre land earlier acquired by the Tatas to set up 'Nano' factory was made available to it.

The announcement of the project came exactly a year after she launched her indefinite agitation in the village that ultimately drove the Tatas to take away their prized small car project to Sanand in Gujarat.

The minister said she wished to set up the project on a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model. Similar projects were also lined up for Allahabad and Aleppy.

The project for Aleppy had already made headway, she noted.

Mamata said the remaining 400 acres could be returned to the farmers who had sold the land to the state government for the Tata project.

Inaugurating the Singur-Howrah Andolan local, which will cover a distance of 34 km, Mamata announced that a project to market vegetables and fruits grown at Ratanpur in Singur would be launched.

She said Singur would be the first place in the country where the project, part of the ambitious Kisan Vision programme envisaged in this year's Railway budget, would be implemented.

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