Singur committee to miss deadline

Fri, Sep 12 02:32 AM
The four-member committee set up to settle the Singur crisis will not be able to meet its seven-day deadline which ends on September 14.

Emerging from the meeting on Thursday, committee head Rabindranath Bhattcharya, the Trinamul Congress MLA from Singur, said: "We will ask for more time from the state Government. We will need a few more sessions. The committee is expected to submit an interim report after seven days," he said.

Meanwhile, Justice Chittatosh Mookherjee, the legal advisor to the West Bengal Governor during the recent talks, said the crisis would become more complex if things are dragged on and a firm decision is not taken immediately. "The issue needs to be settled at the earliest," he said. Though Bhattcharya claimed both sides exchanged their views cordially during the meeting on Thursday, sources in the West Bengal Industrial development Corporation (WBIDC) said they were actually split over the quantum of land to be given from within and outside the project area. Read