This refers to ‘Singur renews its date with land protests’ (November 16). Those who thought the problem in Singur was the Tatas not willing to pay the market price for land being acquired for their Nano plant will have to relook their positions. The same story is being revisited, this time over the land to be allotted to the public sector BHEL for its power plant.
If even a public sector company is facing a problem, it is not a matter of compensation but is an issue of how those being displaced are to be relocated and the employment they need to be given. The government needs to come up with a strategy to get land to allot to industry. If a strategy that works is not in place quickly, India’s tryst with rapid growth is not going to happen. The sooner the authorities wake up to this reality, the better.
Sanjeev Prakash, New Delhi
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