The world’s cheapest car, the TATA Nano, may still roll out from Singur with Tata Motors on Monday expressing hope that the West Bengal government’s new rehabilitation package will evoke a positive response from unwilling land-losers who had refused compensation.

If all goes well, the company could even look at resuming work at the factory site. Sources linked to contractors working at the site said they had been alerted to start work in a “few days”.

WHAT THE NEW REHAB SCHEME OFFERS
* 70 acres offered from the Tata Motors project site

* An additional 50% cash assistance to land-losers and bargadars so that they can buy agricultural land of their choice

* Unrecorded bargadars to receive 300 days wages at National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme rates

* Special 10% incentive for unwilling land-losers if they receive compensation befores September 22, 2008

* Government will train and endeavour to provide direct or indirect employment for one person per project-affected family with no regular employment or income

* Community development schemes will be taken up in project- affected villages