DLF, the Delhi-based real estate major, does not expect land acquisition for its Dankuni Township project 20km from Singur to happen till the controversy over the Tata Motors project is resolved but is keen on the project despite the delay.
The Singur crisis has also left the state government worried.
Urban development minister Ashok Bhattacharya said he sympathised with the concerns of DLF.
?They have not told me they will withdraw,? the minister said. ?But if I can?t give them land, why shouldn?t they? How long can they keep the project hanging??
DLF, which has plans to invest Rs 33,000 crore in the township-cum-industrial park project that will need nearly 5,000 acres, had been prepared for the delay by the Left Front?s electoral debacle in the June panchayat elections.
Fresh from reversals in panchayats across the state as well as in Dankuni, the minister had said the government would be proceeding in consultation with all stakeholders but would not abandon the project.
DLF officials, when contacted on Monday, declined to comment on the issue but said the company is still interested in the project.
?We have no comments to make. One knows the situation in West Bengal, we don’t want to add anything more to the controversy,? he said.
When asked if it is still interested in Dankuni, the official said, ?Of course.?
From the government?s side, the entire Hooghly district administration has been tied up handling Trinamool Congress Mamata Banerjee?s siege of the Nano small-car factory, and the Dankuni project has been put on the backburner.