Railway coach factory to come up at Tata's abandoned Nano car site
Kolkata: West Bengal government agreed to the proposal of railway ministry to set up a railway coach factory at the abandoned site of Tata Motors in Singur. The land
was originally acquired for setting up Tata Motors' Nano small car plant. The
state government has sent a letter to Railway Board Chairman S S Khurana, saying
they were welcome if they wanted to set up industries in Singur. "The railway
minister had told that a railway coach manufacturing factory would be set up in
Singur. I had given a letter to the railway board chairman and informed that the
state government could give Singur land if the railways would want to set up the
railway coach factory. I have asked their suggestion and detailed reports on that,"
said Ashok Mohan Chakraborty, state chief secretary. Railway Minister Mamata
Banerjee
had launched a massive protest against the acquisition of farmers' land at Singur
a year ago. Recently she evinced interest to set up a rail coach factory in collaboration
with the state government or on a public-private-partnership (PPP) model at the
abandoned site.
