Tata drives Nano out of Bengal

  • 04/10/2008

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)

BS Reporters / Kolkata/new Delhi October 4, 2008, 0:33 IST Ratan Tata The decision has been prompted today because we do not see any change on the horizon: Ratan Tata. West Bengal will no longer be the home for the mother plant for the iconic Rs-1-lakh Tata Motors Nano car after Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata told Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee that the situation at the factory site at Singur, 40 km from Kolkata, was not suitable for further work, owing to the agitation led by Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee and her allies. The agitation, which began at the end of August, prompted Tata Motors to suspend work at the factory on August 29. Attempts by West Bengal governor Gopal Gandhi to broker an agreement between the government and Trinamool over a fresh land-for-land deal for unwilling land-losers to the project also failed early September.