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Pune July 08 Tata Johnson Controls Automotive, Tata Ficaso plan to shift units in time to meet November deadline

The government has lined up a project to end frequent waterlogging in Singur because the area was about to become "a very important location' on the state's industrial map. "Singur is going to become a very important location... Keeping in view the future of the area

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at the chamber of commerce. Picture by Kishor Roy Chowdhury Calcutta, June 30: The government plans to table the long-awaited rehabilitation and resettlement policy for landlosers in the monsoon session of the Assembly. "I hope to place it in the Assembly as soon as possible,' the chief minister told the Indian Chamber of Commerce annual general meeting today.

Managing Director Ravi Kant meets Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Project cost increases to Rs. 2,000 crore Evokes worldwide interest to set up a plant MAKING THINGS HAPPEN: Ravi Kanth, Managing Director, Tata Motors, addressing the media after a meeting with the West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, at the State Secretariat in Kolkata on Saturday. KOLKATA: The Tata small car Nano is set to start trial runs by August prior to its scheduled roll-out during Durga Puja (in October) Tata Motors Managing Director Ravi Kant said.

The Tatas' small car is likely to roll out of the Singur plant as scheduled in October and vendors are also getting their projects readied, Tata Ryerson Managing Director Sandipan Chakravarty said. Mr. Chakravarty, whose company is slated to supply a substantial portion of the components for the Nano, said that he planned to get his plant ready by August. The issue of the rollout was at the fore again in view of the water-logging caused by the recent spell of heavy rains and flash floods in the State. Portions of the project area were submerged but the core area was not affected. Mr.

Setting aside the speculation, Tata Ryerson MD Sandipan Chakravortty assured on Friday that the Tata small car Nano will be rolled out in October from the Singur factory only. Tata Ryerson is one of the key component manufacturers of Rs 1 lakh car, Nano.

The state government is losing a huge amount of money every day as theft of soil excavated during the dredging of canals around Singur small car project site is going on unhindered due to lack of proper surveillance. Some employees of the district irrigation department officials are suspected to be involved in the theft racket, said an official of the Singur block office.

The Left Front won in Panchayat Elections in May 2008 but it came with a pinch of salt. The polls indicated that the industrialization drive has not gone down well with the rural electorate. The

Pradeep Gooptu & S Kalyana Ramananthan / Singur/ Chennai June Even as Tata Motors is racing against time to get its new Singur plant near Kolkata ready for commercial roll-out of the Nano by October 2008, the company may be needing an out-of-the box solution to overcome some delays in the integrated plant and component park structure proposed for the vehicle. Tata Motors plants in Pune and the new one in Pantnagar (Uttarakhand) might be marked as standby options should the Singur facility not be ready by October.

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