Land for Pantnagar plant has come from govt: Tata Motors

New Delhi, Sep 27 (PTI) Country's leading car maker Tata
Motors Saturday said the Uttarakhand government had given its
own 1,000 acre land to the company, on which it has already
set up manufacturing facilities along with that of vendors.

Reacting to reports that a group of farmers was planning
agitation if more land is given to the company in case it sets
up Nano car project, which is facing uncertainty in West
Bengal, a Tata Motors spokesperson said, "All our land has
come from the government and the plant exist on the government
land."
A group of farmers in Uttarakhand's Pantnagar area, under
the banner of 'Kisan Kisani Abhiyan', had taken up cudgels
against the state government's purported plan to allot more
land to the company with its leader Hanif Gandhi threatening
an agitation.
The government had agreed to offer 1,100 acre of land in
the area, of which the company has already set up a mother
plant and vendor park on 1,000 acres. The government is yet to
give the rest 100 acre for setting up residential colonies,
the spokesperson said.
He said that since no part of the land for the existing
facilities, from where its rolling out commercial vehicle Ace,
has come from the farmers and hence there is no ground for any
agitation.
On whether the company had decided to shift the Nano
project from West Bengal to Uttarakhand, he said that the
company had earlier said in a statement that it could explore
options at other existing facilities.