The abandoned factory evolved a big question gradually, what would be the future of the acquired land.
Because of this huge event a massive turmoil started in the political environment of Bengal and this event became one of the main causes of the end of the ruling government, who ruled the state for more than 30 years. The opposition party owned the state assembly election and new government took the first cabinet decision to return the land to the unwilling farmers.
In 2016 the Supreme Court asked the state government to return the land to the original owners within 12 weeks. A new chapter opened when government started dismantling the shades, pillars, walls, machineries, constructed roads everything to wipe out the conflicted project. The objective was to bring back the same agricultural land with all its productive capability, quite a challenging task indeed. Huge amount of money has been spent to execute this entire process. Government has done a mammoth job to identify the correct demarcation of lands for all the owner and distributing the same to them accordingly.
At present, agriculture has been started in some less impacted areas, while the process of “making the land cultivable” is still in progress in major impacted areas. Farmers are still hopping. Questions still remain. Is the land cultivable yet? What is the socio economic impact of this on the farmers?
About the author:
Gourab Guha was born in 1980. He lives in Kolkata, India. He graduated from University of Calcutta. His work has been published by many national and international forums and magazines including Amateur Photographer – UK, Social Documentary Network etc. His work has been exhibited in different countries including Egalitarian Album Gallery – London, Bartselona Gallery – Belgrade Serbia, Blank Wall Gallery – Athens, Greece etc.
