Tata Motors has homed down on West Bengal to locate its cherished small car project. The company has targeted to sell these cars at a price tag Rs.1 lakh.

Here are the broad details of the project:

Project: Small passenger cars to be priced at Rs.1 lakh
Cost: Rs.1,000 crore
Location: Singur, Hooghly district, West Bengal
Land: 1,000 acres (700 acres for main plant, 300 acres for vendors and suppliers)
Land possession: By July/August 2006
Commissioning: end-2008
Direct employment: 2,000 persons

Tata Motors is in the midst of a multifarious capacity expansion project, broadly involving:

• doubling of capacity of its mini truck (Ace) to 60,000 units per year, at Pune
• greenfield unit for producing Ace (location not identified, but West Bengal likely)
• greenfield unit for producing trucks (location not identified)

Also See:

West Bengal offers land to Tata Motors (13-Mar-06)

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