Kolkata: The assembly and rollout of Tata Motors' small car would be from the Singur plant in the state and not from Pune or Uttarakhand as speculated, a West Bengal government official claimed on Thursday.
A high-level official of West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) told PTI that the rollout would be made from the Singur assembly plant, whose civil construction was nearing completion.
"It would be silly if the company rolled out the small car from a different plant," the official said.
However, a Tata Motors' official, when asked on the company's decision on location of the roll-out of the low-cost car, said: "We expect to start commercial production in the middle of next financial year as stated in earlier occasions."
The WBIDC official said that although the company planned to showcase the car at the upcoming Auto Expo at New Delhi in November, it would be a prototype from the Pune plant.
He said the company had not changed the deadline of rolling out the car during the middle of the current year.
"The car would roll out during the middle of 2008." Test run of the car would take place during April this year, he said.
The mother plant would require 640 acre and the vendor park 290 acre. Already, nearly 55 vendors have agreed to come to Singur, with a promised investment of Rs 2,200 crore.
This was in addition to the Rs 1500-crore investment to be made by Tata Motors at the plant.
To speed up construction work, Tata Motors would switch from two-shift to three-shift operations, he said.
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