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The Tata Nano Singur controversy was a controversy generated by land acquisition of a proposed Tata Motors automobile factory at Singur in Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. The factory would have been used to build the compact car Tata Nano .
Tata Motors announced in 2006 that the Nano would be manufactured in Singur, West Bengal. [22] Local farmers soon began protesting the 'supposed' forced acquisition of their land the new factory entailed. [22] Tata first delayed the Nano launch and later decided to build the car in a different state, Gujarat, instead. [23]
Singur gained international media attention since Tata Motors started constructing a factory to manufacture their $2,500 car, the Tata Nano, at Singur. The small car was scheduled to roll out of the factory by 2008. [7] In October 2008 Tatas announced its withdrawal from the project. [8]
The Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government wanted to set up a Tata Nano factory in Singur, Hooghly. Tata Motors started constructing a factory to manufacture a car, Tata Nano which was estimated to cost $2,500. The small cars were scheduled to roll out of the factory by 2008. Singur was chosen by the Tata Motors among six sites offered by the West ...
Singur gained international media attention since Tata Motors started constructing a factory to manufacture their $2,500 car, the Tata Nano at Singur. The small car was scheduled to roll out of the factory by 2008. [18] In October 2008 Tatas announced withdrawal from the project. [19]
The Singur controversy [54] in West Bengal was a series of protests by locals and political parties over the forced acquisition, eviction, and inadequate compensation to those farmers displaced for the Tata Nano plant, during which Mamata Banerjee's party was widely criticised as acting for political gain.
Tata Motors started constructing a factory to manufacture their $2,500 car, the Tata Nano at Singur. [21] She protested against the setting up of the plant at Singur, West Bengal. Patkar's convoy was assaulted, allegedly by CPI(M) activists, at Kapaseberia in East Midnapore district while on her way to strife-torn Nandigram. [22]
After being arrested by police earlier in that day "for violating prohibitory orders" near Singur, she alleged that the administration had acted "unconstitutionally" by preventing her from entering Singur where the Tata motors proposed to set up a small car factory. She was intercepted at Hooghly and sent back. [82]