Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has sought investments from the Tata Group in and around Nagpur, citing strengths like infrastructure, land availability and connectivity in his home city.
Gadkari had written to Tata Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran hard selling MIHAN (Multi-modal International Hub Airport at Nagpur) for expansion of the Tata group's various businesses.
In a letter to Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekhar on October 7, Gadkari, who handles the road shipping and highways portfolio, stated institution agencies engaged in companies like steel, vehicle, patron merchandise, IT services and aviation can pick to put money into Nagpur.
The ruling BJP has come under a sharp attack from Opposition parties after Gujarat — facing Assembly elections within the next few months — walked away with at least two mega projects in as many months: Vedanta-Foxconn on September 13, and now, Tata-Airbus.
On Thursday, Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar had announced that Tata Advanced Systems and Airbus Defence and Space will manufacture C- 295 transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force in Vadodara in Gujarat. The Union Cabinet had approved the project entailing an investment of Rs 21,935 crore on September 8, 2021.
Earlier, on September 15, Maharashtra Industries Minister Uday Samant had told a television channel that the state would try to get the Tata-Airbus project at MIHAN. His statement came just two days after Vedanta-Foxconn had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Gujarat to set up a Rs 1,50,000 crore semiconductor facility, drawing flak from the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance.
The letter shared with the media on Saturday comes amid Maharashtra dropping several huge-price tag projects to neighbouring Gujarat, just like the over Rs 1.5 lakh crore investment from Foxconn-Vedanta on chip manufacturing and the Rs 22,000 crore plane manufacturing mission wherein the Tata Group has tied up with Airbus.
At a recent occasion, Chandrasekhar had said the Tata Group is exploring investments in electronics, renewable power, electric powered vehicles and different modern sectors, and is engaged with the newly formed state authorities beneath Chief Minister Eknath Shinde for the equal.
In the letter, Gadkari stated there are over 3,000 acres of land inside the Multi-modal international Hub Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN) SEZ and non-SEZ vicinity, and delivered that already quite a few organizations have set base in the area.
"All Tata Group organizations like Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consumer Products, Voltas, Titan Industries, Big Basket may enjoy the strengths of Nagpur like overnight connectivity with 350 districts of six states, lower quotes of land, manpower and warehousing," the minister stated inside the letter.
Underlining that the organization businesses have already been found in valuable India's Nagpur for over a century, Gadkari informed Chandrasekhar that the Tata Group's airline ventures Air India, Vistara and AirAsia India can cut fees by making Nagpur as a hub of their operations and choosing to park plane at nighttime.
Air India already has a preservation, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility at MIHAN, Gadkari stated, stressing that thinking about the enlargement plans of the group within the quarter, greater MROs may be considered.
Separately, the institution also can observe large warehousing for aviation spares for its own use and additionally for other airliners, he stated.
He said the institution also can study coming into box manufacturing, pronouncing deliver from Tata Steel is feasible within the Nagpur vicinity, which augurs nicely for the enterprise.
TCS can increase its presence inside the MIHAN location courtesy the quality training institutes in the area, Gadkari wrote.
The letter turned into written following a briefing from the Vidarbha Economic Development Council, Gadkari said, soliciting for Chandrasekhar to have an assembly with the think-tank's delegation at the intent for creating a hub in Nagpur for the Tata Group. Such a wager would assist the faster development of the Vidarbha region and gas boom for the Tata Group.
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