Trinamool agitation halts work at plant for world's cheapest car

Kolkata: Work at the Tata Motors Nano factory at Singur in West Bengal's Hoogly district remained suspended for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday.

According to The Telegraph newspaper report here, Tata Motors and its vendors are losing about Rs10 million every day on account of work suspension.

There was no work at the factory on Friday, Saturday and Monday due to an indefinite agitation at the plant site by the Trinamool Congress headed by Mamta Banerjee, which is demanding the return of 400 acres taken for the project from farmers who did not want their land to be acquired.

Road closed again

The plant was closed on Sunday, it being a weekly holiday.

In another development, the National Highway-2 (NH2), which was partially opened on Monday night was again closed yesterday morning.

"We have been able to allow 55 trucks to ply towards Kolkata and some others to Bardhaman district till 11am [on] Tuesday," said an official of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

He, however, refused to comment on why the highway was closed on Tuesday.

Meeting

"Senior NHAI officials will have a meeting with the Hoogly district administration on this issue soon," he said.

Tata Motors is slated to roll out the world's cheapest car from its factory in Singur, 40 kilometres from Kolkata, in October.