Sanand produced only 515 Nanos in January, and sold even less, just around 391 units.
Tata Motors will distribute all Nano cars from Pantnagar through its new subsidiary, Tata Motors Distribution
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Apart from around 40 Japanese companies and five global vendors of MG Motor India, many other biggies are eyeing Gujarat for either greenfield opportunities or brownfield expansion.
Domestic and foreign companies pour in a slew of investments in Gujarat.
Companies are drawn to the parks by the infrastructure and ready-to-occupy land.
Code-named Pelican, bigger hatchback with new petrol and diesel engines may hit the road next year.
Figo Aspire will be the company's first ever sub-4 meter sedan.
Three expert members -- Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Siddiqui -- have resigned from the National Ganga River Basin Authority.
Tata Motors ended the year selling 21,012 Nanos, up from 16,901 in FY15.
Thirteen years after their small car project was forced out of West Bengal following the anti-land acquisition movement in Singur, Industry and IT Minister Partha Chatterjee has said talks are on with the Tatas for big-ticket investments in the state. Underscoring job creation as the TMC government's top priority, Chatterjee also said incentives to companies will depend on ability to generate employment. He said the Mamata Banerjee dispensation wants two large manufacturing units to be set up by any prominent industrial house at the earliest. "We never had any enmity with the Tatas, neither we fought against them. "They are one of the most respected and biggest business houses of this country and also abroad. "You can't blame the Tatas (for the Singur fiasco).
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The hatchback has been priced strategically at a notch above the Nano and way below the Tata Bolt.
Tata Nano will have to improve sales in order to get Gujarat government's support.
It's going to be an 800cc twin cylinder diesel engine with a rated power of 40.2 bhp.
The company did not clarify if the software error affects only domestic sales or exports from the plant as well
Agarwal was admitted to hospital on Wednesday after he even gave up drinking water.
He will address meetings at Sanand in Ahmedabad in central Gujarat and at Jamnagar and Amreli in Saurashtra regions.
Rahul Gandhi attended thee public speeches in Jamnagar, Amreli and Sanand on Tuesday, but his careful attitude made them bland, says Sheela Bhatt.
Except for laws pertaining to the payment of minimum wages, following safety norms and adequate compensation for workers in case of industrial accidents, no other provisions of the labour law would apply to all new companies that wish to operate in the state for at least 1,200 days, and for those that have already been operational for that period.
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One of the Nano vendors lays off 75 workers, others on wait-and-watch mode.
Bosch Rexroth (India) Ltd, part of German automation firm Bosch Group, is expecting completion of its drives and control systems production facility in Sanand, Gujarat, by November or December this year, according to V K Viswanathan, managing director of Bosch Ltd.
'Industry realises we cannot overly depend on imports from anywhere including China.'
While the carmaker still has another 300-odd acres to set up the proposed plant, state government officials said the government might sell the remaining land, too, if the demand came up in future.
Nestle India, the subsidiary of Swiss dairy major Nestle, is all geared to set up its ninth plant in the country. The company had acquired about 50 acres of land at Sanand, nearly 30 kilometres from Ahmedabad, for a manufacturing plant, said Gujarat government officials.
Twenty-four people, including eight children, were killed on Thursday while 15 others injured when their truck overturned on the Sanand-Viramgam Highway in the district.
When set up in 1993 by the Ranka family's Modern Group, this was the first terry towel manufacturing unit in the whole of Asia, to be followed by Welspun and Trident.
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The agreement was signed by Gujarat principal secretary Maheswar Sahu and PSA Peugeot vice-president (emerging market and India) Fredic Fabre in the presence of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad.
Farmers from three talukas of Ahmedabad district on Monday alleged that 'massive corruption' in the construction of the Narmada Irrigation System, built by the government, has lead to faulty construction of minor and sub-minor canals.
If all goes well, Ford India will park its second manufacturing unit right next to Tata Motors' Nano factory at Sanand.
'What did we get out of this agitation? Nothing... Now we feel it was all a mistake. We have no work, and our land has turned infertile. We are living in abject poverty'
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi dreams of making Gujarat an automobile hub.
The model will be assembled at its 4,000-acre facility coming up at Sanand in Gujarat.
The United States carmaker Ford on Thursday said it will invest Rs 4,000 crore (Rs 40 billion) to set up its second manufacturing facility in India with an initial installed capacity of 2.4 lakh (240,000) units annually.
Claiming that the northern state was a safer zone for industries, which did not discriminate in the name of caste or religion, and had, in fact, registered a growth rate of 9.9 per cent during 2009-10, the state chief minister called for greater participation of private players.
After more than two years, Tata Motors has dislodged Korea's Hyundai Motors in India from the second spot in monthly domestic passenger vehicle sales. The spurt in Tata's June numbers has primarily been due to a dramatic increase in sales of the Nano, after the mother plant at Sanand in Gujarat went onstream last month, as well as a surge in that of the Indigo.
Tata Motors, currently produces Nano from its plants at Pantnagar in Uttarakhand and Sanand in Gujarat.
The company had got 100,000 bookings in the first phase.
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