Infosys, Wipro turned away from Bengal

After the Tata's Nano, West Bengal is now all set to say goodbye to IT giants Infosys and Wipro. The state government on Monday said it cannot give land, it had promised to the two companies because the land acquired for them may have been done forcibly and illegally.

Bengals IT Minister Debesh Das refusing comment on the huge setback but setback it is. In a press release on the IT Departments website, it is there in print. The Bengal government is constrained to inform Infosys and Wipro about its inability to given them the promised land because the land may have been acquired illegally.

The root of the problem - Vedic Village set on fire three Sundays ago. This fallout of a clash over a football match has now cost the state investments by Infosys and Wipro.

The resorts owner Raj Modi is also director in Webel Akash Nirman IT Link, the joint venture company that was to build the 1600 acre township where the IT giants were to get land.

Modi is suspected to have acquired land for the project illegally. He is now under arrest and the government wants nothing to do with him or land acquired by him.

"We have to see how much violation is made and a thorough investigation is carried out nothing can be done or said. All I can comment is that there is something wrong on the surface level," said Gautam Deb, Housing Minister.

Not just Infosys and Wipro, several other companies like TCS and ICICI had queued up for the land at its IT township and the expected investment was about 10,000 crore rupees.

Unless Buddhadeb Bhattacharya can find some alternative land and acquire it legally, it is goodbye to the investment and the boast of Kolkata being a prized IT destination.