When TATA said TA - TA

I was one of the person who eagerly followed the proceedings of TATA's small car wonder(NANO) right from the start. I was totally left speechless when Ratan Tata, unveiled the car at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India and announced to the world that India is on the door steps of becoming the super power. Specifically, i liked the way Ratan Tata gave the press conference "A PROMISE IS A PROMISE" - regarding the sale price of NANO. These wordings reached the masses and showed that he is the man of Integrity and honesty.

Then, the land scouting job begun and TATA zeroed in on Singur to put up their Mother Plant. There was lots of noises and government of west bengal jumped in joy. However, right from the start the problem brewing. Mamatadi was looking for some political mileage. She tried vigourously for the last few elections to topple CPI(M) government. But, every time she failed. Ironically, she got this Singur Issue to push her political leverage and to certain extent she attained that by winning all Singur local body election. I personally feel, she got carried away by this and started pushing for the cause of farmers, without knowing or trying to understand what farmers really want.

TATA's responded in a typical business way that "Time is Money" - she failed to understand and carried on with her Singur protest. She was adamant on 300 acres of land and failed to understand or realize that what will happen to the other farmers who willingly handed over the 697 acres of land. She failed to understand that, even if WB Government returned the farm land is it really possible to do the cultivation in the same land? The answer is big NO as most of the land is already dug up for construction purpose.

TATA waited and announced that the are withdrawing from WB, where other states like Uttrakhand, AP, karnataka and Gujarat are eagerly waiting to give them Red carpet reception. This Singur impasse should be a lesson to all governments across India before taking any steps in announcing big projects in their state whether its project or SEZ. They should take farmers opinion and proceed towards a smooth transition of land transfer. The should include those farmers as a shareholders in the project and make them also responsible. This will make things smoother and India can look for bright 21st Century.

The result of NANO pullover is nothing but a ego tussle between Buddha Babu and Mamta Didi. Nothing else. Both of them failed to understand the common farmers of Singur, who were puppets in the hands of politician.

While writing this, still waiting where the next NANO mother plant would be.