Union Minister of State for Urban Development and Congress leader Deepa Dasmunshi has said that the West Bengal Government’s vague land acquisition policy was hampering the State’s infrastructure and industrial development.
According to Dasmunshi, the Government should “take a clear stand on land acquisition policy”.
“Neither industries nor infrastructure projects are getting land in the State. The State could not acquire land for the proposed AIIMS-like hospital”, she said.
For industry, land was available in some places where the industry does not want to go in the absence of infrastructure, Dasmunshi said. She pointed out that the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill has been stalled in Parliament following the Trinamool Congress’s opposition. “Because of the Trinamool Congress, the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill has been lying in Parliament. I will request the party to take a clear stand on the issue,” she said.
Meanwhile, commenting on the clash between police and villagers at Loba village in Birbhum district, State Congress President Pradip Bhattacharya asserted “police firing” indeed took place there and the party was planning to take legal action against the Mamata Banerjee led-Government.