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Mamata discusses Singur with Governor

Indrani Dutta

— Photo: PTI/ Ashok Bhaumik

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and other leaders come out of the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata on Saturday after meeting Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi.

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday met Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi with a delegation of 41 members and leaders from her party and from that of her ally, the Pragatisheel Indira Congress formed by former Congress leader Somen Mitra.

Briefing reporters after coming out of Raj Bhavan , she said that she had discussed a range of issues. These included the reopening of Dunlop India Ltd, whose mother unit at Sahagunj in West Bengal has been locked for sometime now. She said that she had also highlighted the problem being faced by the workers of closed units in West Bengal.

The meeting, which lasted for half an hour, also discussed the issue of return of 400 acres of land at Singur and giving compensation to the families of the 14 people, who, she said had died of starvation since the acquisition of land for the Tata Motors unit. An industrial unit could be set up on the remaining 600 acres, but only after following a transparent process of global tendering.

She said that she has urged the Governor to take up with the Centre, the issue of the problem being faced by nearly a lakh students trained by the Primary Teachers Training Institute in West Bengal, which is not recognised by the National Council of Technical Education Following a court order the certificates given by these institutes in West Bengal are now invalid placing the students in dire uncertainty.

Raj Bhavan sources said that Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi had received the deputation.

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