how to destroy your state's economy
A tragedy in three parts:
I) The Communist(!) ruling government in West Bengal seizes land near Singur, 30mi from Calcutta, for Tata’s new low-cost Nano car. The proletariat rebels, egged on by opposition parties and Marxist leaders.
II) Tata threatens to leave West Bengal altogether. Farmers don’t actually want Tata to leave West Bengal, but would like to not be robbed by Communists. Industry still tires of constant land grab fiascos.
III) Western India offers a site where factory openings won’t be marred by near-civil-war conditions. The deindustrialization of Eastern India continues.
And so continues the downward spiral of what was once India’s most-industrialized region. All this could’ve been solved if Eastern India had an efficient (or at least functional) legal system allowing for voluntary transfers of property. But that would hurt the one industry that is thriving in West Bengal: mass pissing and moaning.