The West Bengal government has promised Indian railways support if it builds a coach factory on the aborted Tata Motors’ Nano project land in Singur.
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Violent protests over compensation by farmers evicted from the land forced Tata to abandon a 95% complete factory for the new Nano cheap city car last year.
The Hindustan times said the state would now help transfer the land leased earlier to the Tatas to the railway.
The state had leased 997 acres to the Tatas for 90 years after acquiring land from farmers in Singur in Hooghly district, about 40km north of Kolkata.
But the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, now the Union railway minister, began an agitation against the manner of land acquisition.
Finally, in October 2008, Tata group chairman Ratan Tata announced that the company was being forced to shift the Nano project to Sanand in Gujarat.
Launch Nano stock is built in an existing Tata factory while the Sanand plant is completed.
