West Bengal's land bogey.

Byline: Ranabir Ray Choudhury

Perhaps it is still too early to say anything definite about the final shape that the Mamata Banerjee Government's policy on the vexed land question will take. But it is clear that the noises being made by certain State Ministers on the subject are not at all conducive to making industry feel generally happy about the future of their activities in the State. The most recent example of this was provided by the West Bengal Industries Minister, Partha Chatterjee, who, at a July 2 conclave in Kolkata attended by more than a hundred CEOs, made it abundantly clear that industry would have to fight its own battle vis-a-vis land acquisition with no …