A day after Mamata Banerjee offered 1,000 acre land for setting up of a factory either by Tata/BMW or any other car manufacturing company at Goaltore in West Midnapore, the district authorities have started chalking out places on war footing to develop the area.

Upbeat with the CM’s announcement, as many as 100 labourers working in the Goaltore state seed farm started clearing the shrubs in the area. Garbeta-II BDO went to visit the spot. “We are in the process of preparing the land,” the BDO said.

The Midnapore zilla parishad has already taken up a proposal to give a blacktop to the road leading to the project site. A proposal for setting up a 132 kV power substation has also been submitted.