Tata targets prompt Nano launch

05 Sep, 2008

India's giant Tata Group said Thursday it aimed to launch the world's cheapest car as fast as possible despite fierce demonstrations against the plant being built to manufacture the vehicle. The statement by Tata chief Ratan Tata came as last-ditch talks were underway in the eastern city of Kolkata to end protests at the factory, which is 90 percent complete.
"We are a company that wants to launch as we have planned and we would do everything possible to try to come as close to the planned launch as we possibly can," Ratan Tata told an industry meeting in New Delhi. "But everything depends on that 'Sing' thing," he said, referring to the protests against the plant in Singur on the outskirts of Kolkata, the capital of Marxist-ruled West Bengal.

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