TATA Motors said that the upcoming Gujarat factory for the Nano will start trial production in the fourth quarter of this financial year.

Mr PM Telang India MD for TATA Motors said that work was on at the new factory site for the Nano at Sanand near Ahmedabad where the company decided to move late last year after it had to vacate the Singur land in West Bengal, following protests over land acquisition spearheaded by Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress.

Mr Telang said that full scale production at Sanand could begin in six to eight months. The company plans to set up an initial annual production capacity of around 250000 units at Sanand which can be expanded to 500000 units. Mr Telang said the current makeshift production site for the Nano, at Pantnagar in Uttarakhand, was churning out around 3000 to 4000 units per month.

(Sourced from Economic Times)