Gadkari requests Tata Sons to consider Nashik for investment

On October 7, Union transport and highways minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari wrote a letter to Tata Sons inviting the Indian conglomerate to invest in Nagpur.

In a letter addressed to Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chairman, Tata Sons Limited, Gadkari said that the group’s investment in various sectors could ensure faster growth of the group’s business and support Vidarbha’s development.

Though the letter has no reference of the Tata-Airbus project, Gadkari has said that the group has ample opportunities in various sectors including IT, automobiles, FMCGs among others.

“Group airlines like Air

short span of three to four months? Is it sheer coincidence? I feel that the aim behind setting up the ShindeFadnavis government is to take projects smoothly away from Maharashtra,” former industries minister and Shiv Sena leader Subhash Desai said.

NCP leader and MP Supriya Sule questioned the timing of

India, Vistara and AirAsia can cut costs by making Nagpur Airport a hub for operations and night parking. The group can also consider more MROs (maintenance, repair and overhaul) facilities at the Multi-Modal International Hub Airport at Nagpur-(MIHAN) and plan large warehousing for aviation spares,” the letter stated.

Significantly, the ShindeFadnavis government was also seeking the Centre’s help to set up the Tata-Airbus project at MIHAN.

“The Tata group has the suitable land available to expand their businesses by leveraging the excellent infrastructure of MIHAN and Nagpur,” it stated.

the announcement and said it was related to the upcoming assembly elections in Gujarat.

“It cannot be denied. If it was just one thing then we could have understood but it is going on again and again and a question comes to our mind that there is something fishy,” Sule said.

“It is clear that Shinde-Fadnavis are traitors of Maharashtra as they are working in Gujarat’s interest against Maharashtra,” state Congress president Nana Patole said. Other projects like the International Financial Centre and Diamond Bourse in Mumbai and the Marine Academy in Palghar were also diverted to Gujarat during the tenure of previous Devendra Fadnavis-led government, Patole said.

Samant said that the government will release a white paper on many jobs have been generated and how many people have been made self-reliant after the government completes a year. In a face-saving measure, he also reiterated that a big project equivalent to Rs 1.54 lakh crore Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor facility, also to come up in Gujarat, will come to Maharashtra. “It would be improper to declare its details at this stage and it will come in the next few months,” he added.

In September 2021, the Union defence ministry and M/s Airbus Defence and Space S.A., Spain, signed a contract according to which 56 C-295 aircraft were to be manufactured. A consortium of Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) and Airbus are to manufacture 40 planes in India within 10 years while Airbus will deliver the first 16 aircraft in fly away condition from Spain within two years.