• Payment of a solatium of 30 per cent of the land value to affected farmers.

• Payment of additional 10 per cent of the land cost (described as “agreed amount” if one does not go in for litigation).

• Land losers, if in the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category, will get shelters under the Indira Awas Yojna or Balmiki-Ambedkar Awas Yojna.

• Land losers, if in the category of marginal farmers, will get one job per family.

• Landless farmers will get one time compensation of Rs 10,000, if evicted.

The state government is aware it has to make the rehabilitation package attractive. Because up ahead are a slew of projects which will require agricultural land acquisition. Some of them are:

• Salim Group: 2,500 acres for knowledge city, health city and industrial township.

• Tata Group: 1,000 acres in Singur for auto plant, another 1,000 acres in Kharagpur for Tata Metaliks.

• Infosys: 1000 acres.

• Haldia chemical hub: 25,000 acres

• Airport to Raichawk Expressway: 500 acres.

• Kulpi Mini Port: 3,000 acres

• Uluberia two-wheeler factory: 400 acres