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Singur is under siege. The Tata small car factory is coming up at Singur, and the car is scheduled to roll out in a couple of months from this factory. Mamata Banerjee is leading an indefinite 'dharna' at Singur. The arterial road of the state, Durgapur expressway, a part of the NH 2, remains under siege since the dharna started yesterday. Several districts in West Bengal are cut off.

The Trinamool Congress is at it again. It has re-embarked in its familiar roll of creating chaos over the small car factory project of Tata Motors in Singur. A so-called movement to save land is crossing democratic boundaries and fomenting violence. A technician working on the project was roughed up with iron rods recently. He had to be hospitalized in a serious condition. A few days ago, another worker was attacked on his way home from the project site.

Kolkata, January 9 Even as Tata Motors is ready to unveil its much-hyped small car at the auto-expo in Delhi on Thursday, the state government has quietly started rehabilitating the residents of Singur, including those who lost their land to the company’s small car manufacturing unit there.

On January 7, the government distributed about 14 acres of land (out of a total of 53 acres earmarked for the purpose) among 100 people, a majority of whom were unrecorded bargadars who lost their livelihood as the land they tilled came under the project.

Sourced from a two part article in The Telegraph newspaper.