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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court's stay order on the 2006 land acquisition for setting up industry in Singur. "I am very happy that the Supreme Court gave this order. I am giving two thousand rupees per month to Singur agricultural labourers, landless labourers and farmers," she said. "We are also giving two kilos of rice at the rate of Rs. two per kilo. They are happy. I want them to get their land back. The landless labourers must also get their compensation," she added. In a relief to the West Bengal Government, the apex court today stayed the Calcutta High Court's order on the 2006 land acquisition for setting up an industry in Singur. A bench of Justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad, said that the Calcutta High Court's interim order which had stated that the state need not part with the land for two months to allow it file its appeal, would continue. "In respect of the Singur matter, the judgment of the Calcutta High Court, whereby the Calcutta High Court held that the Singur Act was ultra-virus, that judgement has been stayed by the Supreme Court today," said the counsel of West Bengal government, Kalyan Banerjee. "Tata has been asked only to file the additional documents. The matter is expected to be taken up after four weeks. Stay has been granted and notice has been issued," added Banerjee. The West Bengal government had moved the apex court against the high court order, which had struck down the Singur Land Acquisition Act that allowed the state government to reclaim 400 acres of land given to Tata Motors.

Mamata welcomes Supreme Court's stay order in Singur land case