kolkata the controversial west bengal land acquisition rehabilitation and resettlement bill 2011 may not be placed in the current assembly session work for presenting the bill should have begun in the department concerned already but nothing has been done so far a draft of the state land bill was mistakenly circulated among the mlas present in the assembly on december 22 even before it got the official signature of governor m k narayanan now a draft will have to be prepared all over again probably with certain amendments once the land department is ready to send it to the assembly the bill was supposed to be placed in the house in the last winter session the next possibility of the bill being tabled was the budget session but the mamata banerjee government gave this one a pass too and now the bill will probably give the ongoing monsoon session which began on june 15 a miss as well only two days ago land department officials had hinted at a possible goahead from the chief minister who is also the land and land reforms minister since there was enough time to complete the required preparatory work the monsoon session is likely to go on till the third week of july however after calcutta high court struck down the singur land rehabilitation and development act 2011 officials at writers felt the cm would not be in a hurry to introduce the bill and give the opposition an opportunity to point out the lacunae in it last year mamata was ready to pass the bill ahead of the central legislation which is awaiting the parliaments nod changing the existing land acquisition policy has been one of her major political commitments along with returning land to unwilling farmers of singur the singur antiland acquisition movement catapulted the trinamool congress supremo to power even as it forced the tatas to shift the nano project to gujarat after the singur order officials felt the cm would prefer to be patient regarding her own baby the land bill which leaves no room for acquisition for private purpose till now there are no signals for the preparatory work ahead of presenting the bill after fridays setback the cm may wish to wait for the central land acquisition rehabilitation and resettlement bill 2011 to be cleared by parliament first said a source the cm is aware that despite rural development minister jairam rameshs enthusiasm the central bill had run into major roadblocks in the parliamentary standing committee also state advocate general anindya mitra had asserted it would be advisable to table the state bill only after the central legislation is enacted because a section in the proposed central bill allows states to have their own legislation without the central enactment the bill after being passed in the state assembly would have to be sent for presidential assent and then the president may not wish to pass the state bill till its own legislation was passed mamata it seems