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September 17, 2009 (PTI) - people and we dropped the idea of the IT township project for the time-being," Bhattacharjee said in reference to the violence in Vedic village on August 23 and the alleged land scam that surfaced thereafter.

At a Left Front meeting Wednesday, Bhattacharjee had said that the proposal of Wipro and Infosys had not been rejected.

In April 2008, the state government had inked two MoUs-- one each with Infosys and Wipro--for setting up IT facilities, for which they had sought 90 acre each. While for Infosys it would had been the first project, Wipro was planning a second one. A company had been floated for setting up an IT park near Vedic Village which now stood scrapped.

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