Ten years after Tata Motors exit, Singur in West Bengal still a wasteland

Curtains came down on Tata Motor's Nano project in West Bengal on October 3, 2008

Thirty-four-old Samit Ghosh works at a pharmacy of Swasthya Nivas Nursing Home in Singur. It’s not the kind of job he had dreamt of 10 years back while training at the Tata Motors’ plant before it decided to pull out. But on October 3, 2008, Tata Motors pulled the plug on manufacturing the Nano out of Bengal, leaving behind a rubble of dashed hopes. 

Ghosh was one of the 267 local residents selected by Tata Motors for training. He did his practical training, first at the Singur plant, and later in Pune. In the last 10 years, Ghosh has made peace