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In a last-ditch effort to salvage the Nano car project in the West Bengal, Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata would meet West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee in Kolkata on Friday.
Government sources said the meeting would take place at the Writers’ Buildings in the afternoon.
The meeting, sources said, would try to find a solution to the impasse which has led to suspension of work at the Nano project at Singur due to political reasons since 29th August.
While the state government has assured Tata that all help would be extended for resumption of work at Singur, Tatas have said it is not possible to work under police protection.
Tata has also said that they would be forced to shift the Nano project from Singur if normalcy was not restored at the project area.
Trinamool Congress, which has for the last two years waged an agitation opposition farmland acquisition for the project, demanded return of 400 acres from the 1,000-acre project site to “unwilling” farmers.
West Bengal government, however, is ready to concede only 70 acres and it agrees with the Tatas that the integrated land pattern of the project should not be disturbed.
With the prospects of Nano rolling out from Singur now becoming bleak, Bhattacharjee had written to Tata asking him not to pull out and expressed his desire for a meeting on the issue.
