The Tatas may have driven Nano out of Singur, but the site is soon going to be taken over by another car-manufacturing company, West Bengal Transport Minister Subhas Chakraborty claimed here today.
"Just wait for six months. You will find that another car-manufacturing factory is coming up there for which we have already started preparation. It will take one to two months for us to sort out the legal complications and administrative matters," he told a private Bengali TV channel here.
The minister made the statement when asked how the land would be used after the Nano project was shifted to Sanand in Gujarat. Chakraborty, also CPI(M) state secretariat member, said, "the preparatory work for the factory has already started by us. It will take one or two months to sort out the legal complications and take administrative measures."
The minister said that the factory that will come up there would create no less job opportunities than the Nano project. Chakraborty said it was wrong to say that the Tatas had left Singur because of the soft handling of the agitation by the Trinamool Congress-led Opposition. "It has happened due to the agitation and not because of the soft attitude of the government," he said.