Click to play videoKolkata/ Mumbai: Civil unrest in Nandigram and Singur has put the West Bengal government on the back foot on promising land to companies that want to set up shop here.
The attitude is getting to corporates, which can't wait indefinitely to roll out their plans. A case in point - the West Bengal government had invited Infosys to start a development centre in Kolkata. Two years have gone by and Infosys says:
“We are still waiting for the government to come back,” said TV Mohandas Pai, Director of HR, Infosys.
Even Kolkata-based FMCG and cigarette maker ITC finds it tough to get land in its home state to set up a food processing unit here. And ITC is dropping hints about alternative sites.
“The problem is, we could do it here. We could do it next door in Orissa. And Orissa is already giving options of take this land, that land. But I have made a commitment to West Bengal's chief minister that we would do it here. Now, we are waiting for land. So, that we can do it,” says Y C Deveshwar, ITC Chairman.
Tata Motors has grabbed the headlines on land acquisition problems, but others may not find it easy either.
Violence and unrest seem to have halted Bengal's corporate development plans at least for the time being.
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