Nano sets date with Durga

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 2334 hrs This year, Goddess Durga could very well come in the Nano, the prized Tata Motors project steered through turmoil by West Bengal’s Left Front government. Trial production of the Nano will happen in June-July, followed by regular production and then commercial production in October, around Durga Puja, Tata Motors managing director Ravi Kant said after a visit to the plant site at Singur near Kolkata.

That is, if the factory construction schedule is not upset by any unforeseen events or heavy rains, Kant hastened to add. Incidentally, the Bengali almanac has Durga coming this year on the elephant, not a boat (which signifies heavy rain) or a ‘dola’ (palanquin), which implies earthquakes.

“It (trial production) will happen in the month of June-July. Equipment will be tested. And then may be a month or two later, we will start regular production. Commercial production… the real thing will come sometime in October – around Durga Puja time,” said Kant.

Kant said: “We have maintained the time line and today also we are maintaining the same.”

Citing events like Wednesday’s unscheduled rain, he said: “We do hope that things go on barring very unforeseen circumstances… like the rains we had… suppose we have next six days of rains --- then it does hamper, it puts us back.”