Update: Tata closes down Singur facility, to build a new one in Gujrat

[beetle]

WB deserves it !The people also, in a way deserve it for electing these guys ...... As for Ratan Tata...like he said ...it's just 19 days profit for them.Nano is too big a project and in the long run they will win. What a guy! Ratan Tata's first job with theTata Group involved working with the Tata Steel division where he worked with the blue-collar employees shoveling stone and working with the furnaces. says Tata Steel Managing Director B. Muthuraman. He's also not afraid of a fight. During a strike at Tata Motors' Pune plant, militant unionists assaulted Tata managers and occupied a section of the city. "If you put a gun to my head," Tata declared, "you had better take the gun away or pull the trigger, because I'm not moving." Tata signed a deal with a rival union and broke the strike after a confrontation between police and the militants. "While he doesn't look it," says Muthuraman, "he's one of the toughest people I've ever known." Mamata banerjee took on a wrong man. She will live to regret it for the rest of her pathetic life.

[beetle]

Somehow' date=' all the self-made women politicians in India seem like total *****es to me. Is it requirement of the trade ? Mamta, Jayalalitha and especially Mayawati.[/quote'] You forgot Uma Bharti, Renuka Chaudhary ..........:haha:

[CC1981]

The people also, in a way deserve it for electing these guys ......

When did the Bengali public elect Mamata and any of the Trinamool congress retards ?? its THEY who are blocking the NANO construction, not the communists...if the communists were against Nano factory, how the eff would TATA even be able to acquire land and build the factory on it, given that the government of WB has been commie for the last 30+ years "?!? It is frustrating to see people ignorantly saying this lafraa with the NANO is because WB is commie and commies always create this type of lafraa...the lafraa is comming SOLELY from the congress/BJP alliance aka Trinamool congress....it effectively makes my main overarching point about Indian politics : the BJP, Congress, Commies are all scumbags who are total vote-bank politicians and totally anti-government ( their idea of being the opposition is to vote againt ANYTHING the ruling party brings to the table- even if its benificial to the masses) and to potray one party as greater/bigger desh-bhakt than others is not only ignorant, its dangerous.

[beetle]

She is only doing what the commies have been doing and encouraging for years.Now they are just getting a dose of their own medicine.... The fact that the CM of Bengal cannot say a word against the "bandh" culture without getting danda in his backside from his own party mates speaks volumes of their gunda polital culture. Just because Buddha thinks differently doesn't change the character of the party.

[CC1981]

Now they are just getting a dose of their own medicine....

This is the mentality that keeps India a third world cesspool of fundamentalism and ignorance. So giving a doze of their own medicine is better than looking at the collective good and the bigger picture eh ? When you have a mature political system like the US/UK/Canada, where parties do not vote on partisan lines regarding matters of national importance, only then you will have a civilized nation, till then, India will remain a barbaric cesspool that was once upon a time civilized. Regardless, you cannot dispute the fact that blaming the nandigraam-NANO crisis on the communists is as basic an error as it gets, because the whole crisis is perpetrated by the congress-bjp alliance simply to play the antagonist.

[beetle]

Singur: Mamata asks Centre to intervene Kolkata, Sept 29: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will meet UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday seeking Central intervention for the implementation of the September 7 agreement between her party and the West Bengal government on the Singur land issue. Banerjee told reporters she would submit all papers to the UPA chairperson on the agreement that provides for return of maximum land from within the Tata Motors car project site at Singur to "unwilling" land-losers, signed in the presence of Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi at Raj Bhavan on September 7. "We have been demanding implementation of the agreement, but the government is not doing it. The government has lost credibility," she said. Banerjee said that she would also meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after he returned from abroad and the President on the Singur issue. "We will also meet leaders of other political parties in the country," she said. She also ruled out attending an all-party meeting as suggested by WBPCC president P R Dasmunsi and said nothing short of the implementation of the agreement would be acceptable to her party. Banerjee said that some "agents of the CPI-M" were trying to mislead the people by speaking about an all party meeting on Singur issue. "We will identify those agents," she said. "The agreement has to be implemented in toto, there is nothing in between," she asserted. She, however, said her party would attend such a meeting if it was convened to discuss the technicalities of the agreement and not to discuss any package. "We are not for any package," she said. Not much hope for the Tata's small car plant in WB: Karat As the impasse over land acquisition in Singur continued, the CPI(M) on Monday said there was "not much hope" that the Tata's small car would roll out from West Bengal. "The Tatas are not willing to resume work if the situation continues," CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said during an interaction with journalists at the Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC) here. He said that West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had spoken to the company a few days back. "There is not much hope in Singur, the way it is going," he said. He warned that if the Tata Motors project does not come up in West Bengal then people in the state would "react against the forces which did not let this happen." "The Trinamool Congress and other parties including the Central Government are going to be answerable to the people of the state," the CPI(M) General Secretary said. He claimed that the Trinamool Congress was even opposing the setting up of power and irrigation projects for which land needs to be acquired. The Left leader, however, said that as far as Nandigram was concerned, the CPI(M)-led Government in West Bengal had "made a mistake". There were administrative as well as political mistakes in Nandigram. The administrative mistakes included the fact that though there was no land acquired, the Haldia Development Authority had issued notices to that effect. "Therefore we had to face defeat in the Panchayat elections," he said but claimed that these issues would have no effect on the ensuing Parliament elections. "We know we have to cover some ground, but my party is confident". WB Govt convenes all-party meet The West Bengal government has convened an all-party meeting tomorrow in yet another bid to resolve the impasse at Singur over return of land to 'unwilling' land-losers for the Tata Motors project. "Yes, an all-party meeting has been convened tomorrow," Home Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty told newsmen here this evening. Asked whether the Trinamool Congress would be invited, he said, "I think they will be invited, since this is an all-party meeting." The Trinamool, however, has already declared that it would not attend the meeting while the Congress said it would send its representatives. http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=472802&sid=nat

[beetle]

It's final: Tata Motors to pull out of Singur NDTV Correspondent Friday, October 03, 2008, (Kolkata) Ratan Tata has finally decided to pull out their Nano car plant from Singur, the controversial site in West Bengal. So, the Rs one-lakh people's car will not be rolling out of West Bengal after all. Ratan Tata met the West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya on Friday afternoon, but that meeting failed to convince Tata to stay on. "The decision to move out is taken with great deal of sadness and the opposing parties were sole reason," said Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata group. "We are moving out now because we have a deadline to meet. We are leaving because of Mamata Banerjee and not the state government," he said. "We do not see any changes on the horizon. We have been caught in political cross-fire," he added. On being asked where Nano is moving now, Tata said that the company has offers from three to four state governments. On meeting the Nano car's deadline, tata said that he will do everything possible to get close. "Buddhadeb was very distressed when I told him," he said. Tata's decision has brought an end to more than a month long agitation, led by the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee. Banerjee wanted 300 acres carved out from the land leased to the Tatas and returned to farmers, who did not willingly give their land. A long struggle The protest against the Nano plant started between May and December 2006, when locals heckled Tata officials to protest land acquisition. Police had to teargas them, following which Mamata went on a hunger strike for 26 days. Then, from August 24, 2008, Mamata began her gherao of the Tata factory. Four days on, her supporters threatened Tata employees and on September 2, Tata Motors declared the suspension of work at Singur. On September 7, West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi oversaw an agreement between the Trinamool and the government but could not get them to agree on what the term maximum in the pact meant. Mamata claimed 300 acres while the government offered 70. Hopes for a resolution rose on September 12 when Buddhadeb offered a revised economic package for Singur's farmers. Mamata rejected the package out of hand. Since then, there has been no work at the factory though the deadline to produce the Nano in the October to December quarter is looming large enough for Ratan Tata that made him take the final call. http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080067550

[beetle]

Not a nano question It is not about Ratan Tata or India’s largest auto company, Tata Motors —which is challenging assumptions of costs the world over. The Rs 1,500 crore that the company is ready to forego for employee safety is as generous a promoter as any worker can aspire for. The amount — 9 per cent of the company’s market capitalisation — has been taken in stride by the 309,530 shareholders. Between Tata’s exit threat and today, its stock has risen almost 5 per cent. It’s not the profits, which Nano would have brought, that the markets worship. When announced in 2004, the company was looking at margins that would be thinner than the industry’s five per cent. In the four years that have passed since, input costs have gone up. And if excise duties on small cars not been halved from 24 per cent to 12 per cent, the surging inflation would have turned the Rs 1 lakh car project into a loss-making venture. (Even now, I suspect company finances would be better off without Nano.) It’s not about Nano, expected to be the world’s cheapest car, which was to help some of the 7.2 million two-wheeler buyers migrate to the four-wheel category at the rate of 250,000 Nanos every year. Riding on this 623 cc change agent is the potential to do to Indian travel what the mobile phone has done to Indian communication. The car will offer safety, dignity and style to millions of consumers, at a price that the world said — and many competitors continue to say off-record — was impossible. Thanks to this promise, the car, the company, Singur and West Bengal as well as the country have been put on the world auto map. It’s not about the Tata Group, which can glide over this speed breaker as effortlessly as the high-end Jaguar it bought on June 2, 2008, can over physical bumps. If this needless controversy is examined from the group’s finances level, the Rs 1,500 crore that Tata Motors might lose would be made up by the group’s profits in 25 days. To put it in perspective, Nano is one product out of hundreds, of one company out of 164, operating in one out of seven sectors — IT, engineering, materials, services, energy, consumer products and chemicals — that the group has focused on. It’s not about the 997 acres at Singur. Or even the 400 acres that Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee wants the company to give up. In the hoodlum-led, violent and disruptive politics that Banerjee and her brigade have unleashed, logic or on-ground rigour has no place. When Ratan Tata says that he will not be able to keep down the price if ancillaries are not on land contiguous to the main car plant, it is an argument of a businessman, not a speculator who wishes to amass any extra square inch to convert the plant into a high-rise, high-end, golf-course facing apartment complex. It’s not about the industrial resurgence of West Bengal. Already reeling under shortage of new investments in the industrial sector, the state is burdened with an anti-business image, something that Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has tried very hard to change. The Nano project needs to be contextualised from the state’s economic point of view, where industrial sickness is reaching epidemic proportions. Officially, there are 35 million unemployed people and 70 per cent of the 1,730 industrial units in the state that have commenced production recently have done so with investments of less than Rs 10 crore. The Nano project could have created and driven on a new road, which other industrial groups would have followed. It’s not about India. While the car company has got invitations from Haryana, Orissa, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, each has its own local politics that is not conducive for Nano. The jingoistic ‘Marathi manoos’ won’t allow parking rights to an ‘Indian’ in Maharashtra. Tata Steel, one of the group companies, has burnt its fingers at Kalinga Nagar in Orissa (another state in dire need of industrial development); there are growing protests in Haryana against Reliance’s Special Economic Zone. Nano can easily do without these. When it was unveiled on January 10, 2008, invitations to set up similar plants came from Africa and South America. Closer home, Vietnam and China are ready to host the plant. All of these are just one Memorandum of Understanding away. So what’s it all about? Answer: Bengali voters in the short-term and Indian voters in the long. At their intellectual addas, the voters in Bengal have to decide whether they will continue to back foolish leaders who are seeking political blood by opposing large industrial projects which can accelerate economic development and ensure a further flight of capital from the state. or whether they seek a leadership that’s more in tune with the state’s flight to prosperity. Zooming out, Nano asks another uncomfortable question in an election year: what is the democratic model we are choosing? Of violence? Of poverty creation? Of changing our economic benchmarks from China, which is slowly getting out of reach, to Brazil? In a globalised age, where neither workers, nor entrepreneurs, material, money, markets and consumers can be geographically classified, is India’s democratic choice going to serve and grow the economies of other nations? http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/FullcoverageStoryPage.aspx?id=7c55014d-9bf6-4e8b-82e6-71bc50ee0957Tata-Singurrow_Special&&Headline=Not+a+nano+question

[Ram]

Seriously, what a pity! Tata is right. His company shouldnt be bothered to deal with the political ramblings of the two parties. But, surely, they're bound to miss the deadline for the commerical launch of the car by atleast 3/4 months . Privately, they must be livid at all this.

[DomainK]

I saute Tata for not compromising and for having the guts to move out. Only Tata could have done that. How many would be ready to undertake such a loss for the safety of their employee? Mamta's name will remain in Indian history in black letters. She has outdone even the Thackrays in evil politics. She just erased WB's last hopes of development and pushed them a couple of decades behind. If you have not visited WB rural areas, you will never realize how backward they are. And they are going to remain like that for another 20 years while the rest of India marches forward.

[mhr123]

Tata's r not selfish like Ambani's.. where ever they start a plant they make sure they do something really good for the Area , the standard of living would have increased and they could have got rid of electricity ,water supply and Roads problems... But saali kaamini ke waja se yeh saab huaa...

[Ram]

Breaking News! Tata announces new plant for Nano Indian firm Tata Motors is to build the world's cheapest car in the western state of Gujarat. Tata group chairman Ratan Tata said the Gujarat deal offered the best chance of making the car, the Nano, as quickly and cheaply as possible. The move comes after Tata pulled out of its factory in West Bengal state in a row over land acquired from farmers. The Nano is expected to cost about 100,000 rupees ($2,130) and was due to be launched this month. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7657005.stm -------------------------- W.B's loss = Gujrat's gain.

[Lurker]

Good for Gujrat. Would be fascinating to see how West Bengal deals with this issue. It has to show some real thinking to escape out of this conundrum. It is not only a West Bengal loss, in affect it is entire Eastern regions loss. Is it too hard to imagine that not too many investors will now make a beeline for Assam, Orissa, Bihar etc etc? Prosperity breeds prosperity just as poverty breeds poverty too.

[mhr123]

Let see if Mamta can provide 100000 people who lost there jobs , those small scale industries new oppurtunity to gain some money ... 100000 people have been directly effected and abt 200000 people indirectly. Its just because an idiot politician wanted some land for 400 people... app land ke kaar G***D me mamta de daloo...

[vadodaravictor]

:yay: Welcome to Gujarat. This is very good news for Gujarat. I hope Modi can pull in few Tech companies now:two_thumbs_up:

[retterimp]

ahaha..ante to gujarat ma aivo ne! modi knows how to get money flowing in. kudos to him and tata for helping gujarat develop. noone does business like us gujaratis :--D

[mhr123]

Well in our city Jamshedpur , Its the 3rd generation of people who are working at Tatas and getting paid well.. this is a loss for WB people, farmers and there generations to come.

[Lurker]

Well in our city Jamshedpur ' date=' Its the 3rd generation of people who are working at Tatas and getting paid well.. this is a loss for WB people, farmers and there generations to come.[/quote'] Where in Jamshedpur MHR? Me RIT Jamshedpur fella..

[DomainK]

Modi has to be admired for the speed at which he arranged things.

[mhr123]

Where in Jamshedpur MHR? Me RIT Jamshedpur fella..

I was in Telco Colony , My parents still stays there .... Worked at Tata Cummins before 4 yrs... hmm u were in RIT good yaar... i had lot of friends in RIT and even we used to take out ID cards just to get the movie tickets.