Singur to Sanand

This is the shifting of a fully-built passenger car plant from Singur to Sanand in Gujarat — a distance of about 2,000 km. That journey — undertaken by over 3,340 trucks using 495 containers over the next seven months — made possible the realisation of a difficult dream. This was the dream to produce Nano, a small car with a price tag of Rs 1 lakh. The dream had turned difficult as just ten days before that meeting at Pant Nagar, Tata Motors had announced that it would shift the Nano car project from Singur to Sanand. Farmers’ agitation, led by Mamata Banerjee, in West Bengal had made the operation of the factory impossible.

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