With the Nano’s fate in doldrums, the Tatas are ready to move from West Bengal. Now we wait to see where the Tatas will head next. As of now, plan B to launch the car manufacturing from Pantnagar is mostly likely. The company will take a final decision on the location of the Nano project by September 15.
Enough on Tata’s for today.
Looks like West Bengal is going to loose one more investment. India’s fourth largest software exporter Satyam Computer Services, has decided to quit the proposed software development centre at Salt Lake's Sector V, Kolkata's IT hub.
Satyam feels that the piece of land allocated to it in Salt Lake is low-lying and amenable to water logging, especially during monsoons.
However, the West Bengal IT minister Debesh Das while talking to the media said that
"We have no reason to believe that the company wants to back out of the city because it has always appeared genuinely interested in setting up a presence in Kolkata during the frequent interactions we have had with them. We are even offering Satyam land near Vedic Village at Rajarhat (where Infosys and Wipro are each being given 90 acre) for setting up an IT SEZ which it is keen to establish.”
Though Satyam had announced that it proposed to create a facility at Salt Lake that will be able to employ 2000 associates, the plans never got off. But, periodically, the company has been assuring the West Bengal government that it was "serious" about Kolkata.
Is the location really not feasible to set up a centre, or the recent controversy surrounding the Tata plant , the real cause for Satyam’s dilly dallying of the plans ? Only time will tell
Source : Times Of India
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