One day after the landmark Supreme Court ruling on Singur in Hooghly district, the Burdwan district administration today decided returning back 10.5 acres of land, acquired for setting up a 'misti hub' (traditional sweet hub), to unwilling farmers at Alisa mouza in the district.
A senior district official said after farmers dissented the setting up of boundary wall along the land, the SDPO, ADM and other officials came to the spot today and held talks with the farmers, even as personnel of RAF and police force were deployed at a distance.
The land had been acquired by the previous Left Front government in 2007 for some project and the TMC government recently decided to set up a 'misti hub' here.
As the farmers refused to budge from their stand, the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) was contacted in Kolkata and after parleys the administration was asked by the CMO to communicate to the farmers their lands will be given back, the official said.
"We are happy with the government's decision. This Mamata Banerjee government thinks about the common man and farmers," a farmer Sanatan Kar said.
The district official said while the plots of land will be given back in due process following the norms, the administration will be scouting for new vacant spaces for the proposed misti hub including improving wastelands.
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