Tata group Chairman N Chandrasekaran responds to Nitin Gadkari’s letter, says ‘we can be in contact’

Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran has responded to Union Minister of Transport Nitin Gadkari’s letter requesting an appointment for Vidarbha Financial Improvement (VED) Council members to transient him on Tata Group funding alternatives within the Vidarbha area.

“Our groups will certainly be in contact with VED members as we consider new funding throughout the group,” wrote Chandrasekaran in a letter dated October 19. He additionally expressed a want to fulfill Gadkari.

Gadkari, who handles the street transport and highways portfolio, mentioned in a letter to Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran on October 7 that group corporations engaged in companies akin to metal, auto, client merchandise, IT providers, and aviation could make Nagpur a alternative of funding.

Gadkari had earlier said that there have been over 3,000 acres of land within the Multi-modal Worldwide Hub Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN) SEZ and non-SEZ space and that many corporations had already established themselves within the space.

“All Tata Group corporations like Tata Metal, Tata Motors, Tata Shopper Merchandise, Voltas, Titan Industries, Massive Basket might benefit from the strengths of Nagpur like in a single day connectivity with 350 districts of six states, decrease charges of land, manpower and warehousing,” the minister wrote.

The letter written by Gadkari got here at a time when Maharashtra misplaced a number of high-profile initiatives to neighboring state Gujarat, together with a $1.5 billion chip manufacturing funding from Foxconn-Vedanta and a Rs 22,000 crore plane manufacturing challenge with the Tata Group and Airbus. 

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