Kolkata: The West Bengal government today said the issue of compensation which the Tatas had demanded for returning the land at Singur did not figure in the agreement signed by the two parties.

"The issue of compensation does not figure in the pact between the Tatas and the West Bengal government," Chief Secretary A M Chakrabarti said.

He said the state government, like the Tatas, had also spent substantial money in developing the land in Singur where the Nano plant of the Tata Motors was to come up, but was abandoned due to political reasons.

As the Railway ministry had sought the land, measuring 1000 acre, for setting up of a rail coach factory there, the state government was gearing up to seek return of the land from the Tatas. Chakrabarti said that although no formal communication was sent to the Tatas in this regard.