Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday said he was withdrawing a notification to acquire land in a village in East Midnapur district and his government had made a “mistake”.
"I have asked the East Midnapore district administration to tear up the notification about land acquisition issued by the Haldia Development Authority (HDA) as it was the root cause of trouble that led to total confusion and cost several lives at Nandigram (village)," he said at Writers' Buildings.
Six persons died in violent protests against the HAD notification which marked areas for a chemical hub to be built by Indonesia’s Salim Group. "It is our mistake. The HDA notification was absolutely wrong and it led to confusion," PTI quoted Bhattacharjee as saying.
About total 25,000 acre was needed for the chemical hub at Nandigram, but land acquisition has not begun for this. Bhattacharjee said that he would visit Nandigram and talk to people.
The Chief Minister said from now only collectors or district magistrates would issue notifications on land acquisition.
The violence in Nandigram followed protests in Singur against the Tata Motors' small car project.
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