Special Economic Zones?
This is something that happens in the rest of the country. The last time Bengal heard something like this is when the then CM of the then ruling left front government went against his party line to establish an SEZ at Nandigram. A lot of multinational conglomerates (including an Indonesian multinational) were about to commit billions in it and that is when a mad lady started doing some drama opposing land acquisition. Now all over India such protests are quietly dealt with by involving local political leadership. Even in the recent farm law protests I heard the ruling BJP governments are slowly killing the protests by involving local leaders. This is the norm in Bengal as well. However, since the CM himself went against the party line to promote CaPitaLISm the party leadership did not help either and the Singur and Nandigram protests marked the end of the left rule. CM Budhdhadeb Bhattacharya despite belonging to the left front coalition became extremely open to industry led development towards the later half and payed its price dearly. Now if we talk about the current CM then LOL. All she says is no need to acquire land. Directly buy it. Or else take land from the land bank ( the truth is the land bank in WB does not have big chunks of lands only very small chunks are there). She even told the AAI to directly buy land for Bagdogra airport expansion project to which AAI replied that never did they buy land in their entireanshistory; that is not their job.
The IT giants requested for an SEZ in the Newtown - Rajarhat area to scale up their operations to which the CM , as expected, denied. There were talks of a greenfield international airport in Kalyani and adjoining industrial belt which was again dropped because the CM refused to acquire land. Today she claims credit for eastern dedicated freight corridor. Do you know why? Because apparently despite so much hardship she provided with LaNd.
