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Singur plant: Tata justifies decision

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"Reflects company's faith in State"

KOLKATA: The Tata Motors management's decision to select Singur in West Bengal's Hooghly district as site for its proposed Rs. 1,000-crore car manufacturing plant "is a reflection" of its "faith in the State and our desire to play a role, however, small in the growth and development of skills and consequential job creation," according to a letter from its Managing Director Ravi Kant to senior Congress leader and local MLA, Sudip Bandhopadhyay.

The Congress and the Trinamool Congress are opposing the project. Leaders from both parties have urged Tata Motors to set up the plant at an alternative site.

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has maintained that the plant would be set up at Singur in accordance with earlier plans and land for the project would be handed over to the company to keep to its schedule of rolling out the first small car from the factory in 2008.

The Government is working on a "policy statement" on the project and its future plans for acquisition of land for the setting up of industry.

This is aimed at removing misgivings of most Opposition parties as well as some constituents in the ruling Left Front on the issue.

The process of land acquisition by the Government for the project was completed recently.

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