By IANS,
Kolkata : Officials of Chinese auto major First Automobile Works (FAW) have visited three plots in West Bengal, including Tata Motors’ abandoned land in Singur, for setting up a manufacturing facility, a senior government official said here Wednesday.
“They have seen plots in Singur, Kharagpur and Haldia,” Commerce and Industries Principal Secretary Sabyasachi Sen told reporters on the sidelines of a programme.
FAW has teamed up with Ural India, an Indo-Russian joint venture, and is scouting for 600 acres in any of these places to set up its plant.
Asked if the company was interested in the Singur plot, Sen said: “The land has not yet been vacated by Tata Motors. It will take another year or so to vacate it. It is up to the company whether they are ready to wait till that time.”
Tata last month shifted its small car Nano plant from Singur to Sanand in Gujarat following protests by the opposition Trinamool Congress-led farmers against the projects.
Sen, however, said the state government would be ready with the blue print of the land available at the Tata Motors site so that any willing company whose criteria matches with the land availability can start unit over there.