WBPCC welcomes Mamata’s offer on Nano land

The West Bengal Pradesh Congress (WBPCC) has welcomed railway minister Mamata Banerjee's offer to compensate the Tatas for the 1000-acre leased out land at Singur to set up a rail coach factory. The party said the Left Front government should respond to her proposal.

The party said it welcomed her offer and any investment for setting up a public sector project in state that would create employment for the jobless youth.

WBPCC working president told PTI that the party had no objection if a rail coach factory were to come up at Singur on the land that had been leased to the Tatas for the aborted Nano factory.

He added that the state government, which had acquired the land for the Tatas in Singur should respond to Mamata's offer adding that the state government should also do its bit towards resolving the land tangle.

Mamata had earlier this week, while responding to Tata Motors' chairman Ratan Tata's recent offer to return the land for adequate compensation, said that the government was ready to pay for the 1,000 acres land acquired by the Tatas.

She said she had held talks with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and a rail coach factory would be set up on 600 acre and the remaining 400 acre would be returned to farmers who had been unwilling to part with it.

She said the railways would lease out land for setting up industries on a joint venture mode to private entrepreneurs.