{"id":5073,"date":"2011-07-19T15:57:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T19:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2011-07-19T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T19:59:08","slug":"tatas-will-be-half-forgiven-by-odisha-if-they-really-set-up-an-auto-unit-in-the-gopalpur-sez-as-reported-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/5073","title":{"rendered":"Tatas will be half forgiven by Odisha if they really set up an auto-unit in the Gopalpur SEZ as reported below."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 I wrote <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/chitta\/openlettertothetatas\">a letter to the Tata&#8217; on their 100+ years of exploitation of Odisha in terms of taking minerals at throw away prices from Odisha and doing major CSR and development outside Odisha<\/a> and contributing very little to Odisha per say, but a lot to India though. Following is are excerpts from <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/news\/Tata-Steel-plans-to-rope-in-Tata-Motors-at-Orissa-SEZ\/819620\/\">a news item in Financial Express<\/a>. If what is mentioned there really happens Odisha will half forgive the Tatas.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tata Motors is likely to set up an automobile unit at the Gopalpur SEZ Industrial Park, which has been developed by Tata Steel.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Talks are going on with Tata Motors to set up an automobile  unit at the Gopalpur SEZ in Orissa,&rdquo; said a senior executive of Tata  Steel.<\/p>\n<p>He said Tata Steel&nbsp; &#8230; plans to manufacture finished products for the automobile  industry.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Obviously we would like to have Tata Motors set up its unit at  the Gopalpur SEZ Industrial Park,&rdquo; the chief resident executive of Tata  Steel in Orissa, Rajesh Chintak, told FE. He said that the proposed  industrial park will have a separate zone for the automobile and the  auto-component industry, adding that the park is now generating a lot of  interest among investors.<\/p>\n<p>Chintak also said that the company is now concentrating on developing  the park. Once the infrastructure is ready a clear picture of the  possible investments will emerge, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Orissa government, in fact, is lobbying with the Tatas to set  up an automobile unit in the Gopalpur SEZ. Even when Tata Motors  withdrew the Nano project from Singur, the Orissa government tried to  convince the automobile company to relocate the unit in Gopalpur.<\/p>\n<p>Tata Steel, which  is developing the SEZ Industrial Park over an  area of 3,700 acres is proposing to set up a ferro-alloys plant with a  capacity of 50,000 tonnes and a 4-lakh tonne cold roll re-bar mill with  an investment of R10,000 crore to R15,000 crore as anchor tenant.<\/p>\n<p>The managing director of Tata Steel HM Nerurkar &#8230; said the Gopalpur Park has  received SEZ status. He said that the construction work for the project  would be started once the statutory clearances like the environmental  clearance are obtained.<\/p>\n<p>The managing director said the first phase of the Kalinga Nagar steel plant will be operational by January or February 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 I wrote a letter to the Tata&#8217; on their 100+ years of exploitation of Odisha in terms of taking minerals at throw away prices from Odisha and doing major CSR and development outside Odisha and contributing very little to Odisha per say, but a lot to India though. Following is are excerpts from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,55,95,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto","category-berhampur-gopalpur-chhatrapur","category-sezs","category-tatas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}