The West Bengal Chief Minister, Ms. Mamata Banerjee has begun handing over land to original owners of farm-lands at Singur, which were, as the Supreme Court has decreed, illegally and against public interest, grabbed by the erstwhile Left Front Government in the state. <br/><br/>The administration began handing possession of the plot to its original owners, and the State's Agriculture Department decided that the first crops to be sown in Singur are mustard and pulses apart from Brinjal.<br/><br/>On 31st August, this year, while quashing the Left Front government's acquisition of 997 acres of agricultural land for Tata Motors' Nano Car plant in Hooghly's Singur, the Supreme Court had given the state 12 weeks to return land to the owners. <br/><br/>Fifty days later, the Chief Minister, Ms. Mamata Banerjee started returning the land to the farmers concerned. The seeds that would be sown are being distributed by the State government. Almost the entire plot of land will be cultivable immediately. <br/><br/>There is, though, some uncertainty over a portion of the plot, where Tata Motors had built its factory, raising the plinth with landfill. The fertile top soil too had been destroyed. <br/><br/>Moreover, the government wanted to return the land in cultivable form. <br/>Mamta Banerjee also inaugurated the first of the 66 deep tube-well pumps that the State Government would install for proper irrigation at the 997 acres of farm land.<br/><br/>In her speech after the ceremony, she said that the State Government has handed over 103 acres of land to the farmers for cultivation and that it will complete the handing over of all the land to their respective owners by the 10th of next month.