Dear Mr. Chattopadhyay, I have nothing against you personally. Going through the comments of different people, it seems to me that some people have taken up their stand for and against the land acuisition in Singur and are fabricating stories to justify their stand. True the land in question is fertile. But then the entire gangetic plain in West Bengal is very fertile. Does that mean that there should be no industry in gangetic plane of West Bengal? And how much of land is involved, only 4 square kilometers out of West Bengal's total land mass of about 87,000 square kilometers. For your information, India has very percentage of total geographical area under cultivation (about 57%, which is much higher compared to almost all other countries in the world except Bangladesh 70%). Some politician are trying to protray a picture that we do not have sufficient farmland and if land is taken away for indutrialisation then we could have food secuity problem. This is utterly nonsence. The real problem in India is the farming sector productivity. Giving a tiny percentage of land is not going to create any problem if we concetrate on increasing farmland productivity. I agree that some farmers will need help in relocation. This is where the political patries should help the farmers and not agitate them and then fish in the troubled water. I am sure the Tatas are not setting up factory in Singur just for the sake of uprooting the farmers. They sure must have seen this location from many different angles (logistics, locational advantages, availability of skilled labour etc) and come to the conclusion that Singur is the most suitable location for their small car project. I think the farmers dearer to some politicans can only dream of buying such cheap cars. Lastly do not think the land in Bankura and Purulia are all arid. We bought some so called arid land and invested in irrigation and fertility mangement and I can produdly say that the productity and profitabilty of this so called arid land is at least 5 times more than the land in Singur and we are generating 1 full time employment for every 2.5 acres of land. I would suggest politicians should go and help the farmers in improving their farm productivity and frofitability and not merely agitate them and then fish in the troubled water. The politicians in question seem to be frog in deep tubewell with not so much knowledge about development. So they should do some retrospect and act for the betterment of the society as a whole. Once again do not take any personal offence.
