Singur Saga and RatanTata
Posted : December 27, 2006 at 10:07 pm [IST]
I was shocked to hear Ratan Tata saying the same for the business rivals, what the media reported against Tatas, when Posco was trying to get into steel business in Orissa.
I never expected him to bring in business competitors in the present controversy. Ratan Tata has told NDTV that it’s not just politics but also his business competitors who are encouraging the trouble in West Bengal. Ratan Tata further said that there was absolutely no question of the Tatas pulling out of West Bengal and taking the project to another state.
Who are the business competitors who are competing with Tata Motors? It can be only Maruti and Hyundai, as they only produce the entry-level cars that may get affected by Tata’s Rs 1-lakh-car. I don’t believe that any of them will try to go this extent to delay Tata’s project.
Secondly, no one asks Tata Motors to go out of West Bengal. People will love to have the project in West Bengal. If Tatas are happy with West Bengal leadership, why should any one else bother? But many or most sane persons will like Tata to set up the plant in some other locations on nonagricultural land that is available and was offered. And as it was clear from Buddha Babu’s statement, the West Bengal government offered Tatas land near Kharagpur. Perhaps Kharagpur would have been a better location for many reasons such as the proximity with Jamshedpur where the parent plant of Tata Motors is located. Even the proximity of IIT, Kharagpur should be an added advantage. The proximity of Jamshedpur will further provide the advantage of being nearer to number of vendors that may be located in Adityappur complex.
I fail to understand how Singur can be a better location than Kharagpur.
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Many people have been asking “why Singur” and “why 1000 acres”. Some thinking is that Tata wants to replicate its success story in Pimpri, Maharashtra at Singur. Note that the CPM itself reports that the number of landholders across 635 acres in Singur to be 9,020. Highly fragmented.
At Pimpri, Tata basically transformed the character of 22 villages in this district via a unique cooperative movement between employees and locals. Employees were encouraged to let their family members form societies and manufacture everything from cables for Tata vehicles to chapattis for the canteen. It began in 1973 with six women and now has over 1,200 members. Even before the Singur land is handed over to Tata, it has begun to identify stakeholders
Posted by: Sanjay at December 28, 2006 @ 3:29 am
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