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Tata Ordered to Return Land for Nano Factory to Farmers
Tata Motors Ltd. has been ordered by India’s top court to return 100 acres of land acquired in Singur, West Bengal, eight years ago on which to build a factory to make its ultra-low-cost Nano car.
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Tata Motors Ltd. has been ordered by India’s top court to return 1,000 acres of land acquired in Singur, West Bengal, eight years ago on which to build a factory to make its ultra-low-cost Nano car.
The company abandoned the nearly completed plant on the site in 2008 after violent protests by displaced farmers. The state of West Bengal passed a law ordering Tata to return the land, but it was rejected as unconstitutional in 2011 by a court in Calcutta. The issue has been mired in legal debate since then.
Tata lost 14 billion rupees ($209 million) when it wrote off the factory and relocated operations cross country to a $380 million facility in Sanand in 2010.
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