Monday, September 1, 2008

Nano - Is it time to say TATA to Singur?

The most talked about car of the year , may be the decade..the nano was gonna herald a new revolution in the indian auto industry but sadly its heralded in a political revolution in the communist stronghold against the communists rather than the latter.An ambitious project to manufacture a 1 lakh car needs all the backing from all stratas of society.But in India there is one class of people who wil always oppose it- the political class!!!They need a reason to protest and make an issue out of something to gain some electoral votes.The protests at Singur and the blockage of the highway is it making more and more difficult for the TATAs to continue with their factory there.Aprt from that there staff is being threatened too...Most of u who read my blog must be knowing abt the politics of it so i shall nto go into that.Ill bring out a totaly new angle....

Whose funding the protesters??Figures put it at Rs 1 crore a day is being spent on them...its too huge an amount for any party to spend on a daily basis.The CBI and the IT dept should go ahead and look into the accounts of these parties.Goin on with the next question..Who wil suffer the most if the NANO rolls out??The answer is pretty obvious the 2 wheelers companies...
SO my next question..Have they got anything to do with it??YES very well may be true..as Ratan Tata put it in an intervioew a few months back that certain corporates are tryin to sabotage this whole project..I cant give u the names cause i dono who they are..they are rumours abt certain companies and would like to keep them like that and not mention them here..

Now its no more just a political issue..its as much as a corporate battle as a political one..I think the TATAs ,who have been known for there humanity and are undoubtedly the most respected Indian corporate, should get out of that place and say TATA to Singur..monetary loss set aside..Its gonna hit them hard but then once the problems start they wil never end..a temp solution may com eout but peace and stability wil not be long lasting..

1 comment:

Rajan Chopra said...

Did you know that TATA'S spend almost 90 percent of their earnings in Staff Welfare and Charities.