This was reiterated by Transport and Sports Minister Subhas Chakrabarty, who had revealed this information to a private TV channel on Sunday.

“The MoU will be signed between the company and the state government before October 30. The decision has been taken both at the political and administrative level. And the company which is coming to Singur is aware of all the developments there,” the minister told the media on Monday at his office at Writers’ Buildings.

He, however, did not reveal the name of the company that was coming to Singur to replace the Tatas.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, meanwhile, on Monday flew to Delhi to put forward her demand of returning land to those Singur farmers who did not receive compensation for their land. Banerjee is scheduled to meet President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

On Monday, a 12-member delegation of the Save Nano Committee, that was formed in Singur to bring the project back home, met Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi and handed over a memorandum containing their demands.

The willing farmers and those associated with the Nano factory demanded that the Governor intervene and coax the Tatas to come back to Singur. “We pleaded that thousands would lose their livelihood if the Tatas did not return,” said Udayan Das, president of the committee.

Das claimed the Governor had promised to talk with the state government as well as the opposition party to sort out the problem.

Earlier, members of the committee held a rally at Rani Rashmoni road at Chowringhee. They came in 52 buses and demanded that the state government take steps to start the Nano factory soon. They came to Writers’ Buildings and met the CA of the chief minister.