SINGUR:  With an industry at the abandoned site of Tata's Nano car project at Singur yet to come up, most of the land-owners who had willingly parted with their fields are now back to what they had been doing cultivation.
   
For a long time the land owners had held back switching to their age old occupation hoping that something positive would turn out after the dramatic October 2, 2008 announcement of Nano's pullout by Tata group chairman Ratan Tata.
    
After the Tatas drove away their Nano to Sanand in Gujarat, the government tried to keep back the ancillary units that had come up adjacent to the project site. But once they realised that they would be starved of orders, they left.
    
Then came the state government's aborted initiative to set up a unit of the BHEL either a power equipment manufacturing unit or a 1600 MW power generation unit jointly with the West Bengal Power Development Corporation.
    
On November 12, 2008, BHEL officials had undertaken a survey of the area. However, land was found unfit for the purpose.
    
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee then broached a proposal to set up a rail coach factory in the 'undisputed' 600 acres of the total 997 acres, provided the Tatas returned the land leased out to them. She, however, insisted the land had to be dispute free.