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Peugeot-Citroen to Invest 650 Million Euro (4,000 Crore) in Gujarat, Indian Assembly Plant

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French auto maker PSA Peugeot-Citroen said Thursday it plans to invest about €650 million to build a manufacturing facility at Sanand, after TATA Nano and Ford the rapidly developing automotive cluster in the Indian state of Gujarat. The move fits in with Peugeot-Citroen’s goal of reducing its dependence on the mature markets of Europe. The [...]

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After Nano, Now Ford is at Gujarat, Biggest facility of Ford outside America

28 July 2011

#Gujarat is proud to host the biggest facility of #Ford outside America worth $1bn which will provide a total of 36000 jobs

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Modi positions investment meet along Davos lines

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Gujarat’s chief minister Narendra Modi will once again promote the western state as the best investment destination in India when its capital Gandhinagar hosts hundreds of investors at the fifth edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit next month. Japan and Canada are partner countries for the 12-13 January business meet, where participants are [...]

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Now Narendra Modi invites Ferrari to drive into Gujarat

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After getting Tata Motors Ltd to relocate its Nano small-car factory near Ahmedabad, Gujarat has now invited Ferrari SpA to build an assembly unit in the state. Representatives of Italy’s iconic luxury sports car maker met Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday to discuss the possibility of setting up a plant, according to a [...]

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After Nano, Now, Narendra Modi woos Vedanta

17 October 2010

After getting the Tatas to move their Nano project from West Bengal to Gujarat, the western state’s Chief Minister Narendra Modi seems interested in getting UK-based Vedanta Resources Ltd to shift its aluminum refinery from Orissa to his state. A senior Gujarat government official said Vedanta could be persuaded to take up the aluminum project [...]

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Low-cost TATA Nano car rolls out from Gujarat

2 June 2010

Tata Motors had originally chosen Singur in communist-ruled West Bengal as the main plant to produce the Nano, but had to scrap the nearly complete factory in 2008 over a bitter land ownership dispute Tata’s Nano, dubbed the world’s cheapest car, will roll out of its new plant in western India on Wednesday, two years [...]

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Did Modi offer Rs. 30,000 crore in sops to Tata Motors?

13 November 2008

The Narendra Modi government is claimed to have offered over Rs. 30,000 crore in sops to Tata Motors to bring the Nano car project to Gujarat. Not only has the Modi government agreed to provide a soft loan of Rs. 9,570 crore at a negligible interest of 0.1 per cent to set up the project, [...]

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When asked Why Gujarat, Tata’s answer was Modi

31 October 2008

In an interview to Times Now channel, Tata group’s Chairman Shree Ratan Tata praised Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s commitment towards Gujarat’s prosperity. When Times Now’s political editor Navika Kumar asked Ratan Tata “Why Gujarat?” Ratan Tata in his reply said “We have been quoted now by many states. I think Gujarat stands out as a [...]

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Nano could give Modi US visa power

21 October 2008

Chief Minister Narendra Modi met envoys of several countries at a meeting in New Delhi on Friday in order to hardsell Gujarat in the po st-Nano scenario. The meeting was called at the Taj Mansingh and even an envoy from the Pakistan High Commission turned up. This is the first time that anyone from the [...]

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Tata team meets Modi on Nano

5 October 2008

Tata Motors, which suspended work at the Nano plant in West Bengal’s Singur in view of continued confrontation at the site early this month, has held talks with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over relocating the facility to the state.  In a closed-door meeting held at Modi’s official residence on Saturday afternoon, a team of [...]

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Gujarat To Build Nano And GIFT City, Narendra Modi

30 April 2008

Besides building a Nano-city and Gujarat international financial tax city (GIFT) at Gandhinagar, the Gujarat administration would also be connecting all of its villages with broadband facilities in next two months, the Chief Minister of Gujarat Mr. Narendra Modi disclosed here on Saturday.Mr. Modi said that the hundred storied nano city would have ultra modern [...]

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