This story is from December 11, 2014

Jindals in nexus with Centre: TMC leader

Trinamool Congress state president and MP Subrata Bakshi on Wednesday came down heavily on Sajjan Jindal Group for declaring the Salboni project on hold. He alleged that the Jindals are hand-in-glove with the Centre and are trying to malign the state government.
Jindals in nexus with Centre: TMC leader
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress state president and MP Subrata Bakshi on Wednesday came down heavily on Sajjan Jindal Group for declaring the Salboni project on hold. He alleged that the Jindals are hand-in-glove with the Centre and are trying to malign the state government.
Bakshi was addressing a dharna organized by the local Trinamool functionaries in front of the JSW Bengal Steel factory.
“I came here on the instructions of the chief minister.
We could solve the problem in 12 hours if we had all the power. But the Centre has a role here and has a nexus with the Jindals,” he said. However, Bakshi made it clear that his party is not against industry or any industrialist. “We want industry here,” he added.
JSW Bengal has 4,334 acres for the project. The company had bought 294 acres and WBIDC acquired 189 acres. The total number of land losers for the project is around 480, out of which only 70 got jobs. Around 1,500 people, including over 150 land losers, participated in the dharna.
“We want our land back,” said Pariskar Mahato, secretary of Land Losers Welfare Association.
JSW chairman Sajjan Jindal on Sunday said that the Rs 35,000-crore integrated steel, power and cement project of JSW Group in Bengal, the biggest investment ever proposed in the state, is now officially on hold.
The hope for the power project is fizzling out following the Supreme Court verdict on coal blocks though the group has so far invested Rs 700 crore in Salboni.
JSW Bengal, a subsidiary of JSW Steel, had acquired three coal blocks in the Raniganj area for the project. It got coal blocks in Kulti, Sitarampur and Ichapur, with a combined reserve of 755 million tonne, through the state dispensation route.
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