Mumbai: Tata Motors wants the controversy over its proposed small car plant in Singur, West Bengal, to end soon and it wants to start production by 2008, a senior company official said on Tuesday.
"We have no Plan B and we want to start production at Singur on schedule and we are working towards it," Tata Motors' Managing Director Ravi Kant said. Kant’s statement came as Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee continued her hunger strike against land allotment to the company.
"We are getting proposals for setting up the small car project from elsewhere but we want that it be set up at Singur, which will be the mainstay for production of our small car," said Kant.
The Orissa Government has reportedly offered the Tatas land for the project. The company has got 1,000 acres in Uttaranchal for manufacturing trucks, but the small car project cannot be carried out from there.
The company was surprised at the agitation, as the project would help Singur which was a Trinamool Congress stronghold, said Kant.
Some rescheduling would have to be done in Singur as the agitation against the project had delayed work.
A mini-auto city is being created at Singur and the state government has already secured consent for 927-acres of the 997-acres allotted for setting up the Rs 1,000-crore plant.
Tata Motors has sent feelers to Banerjee but has not got a reply.
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