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3 Sep 2008

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BBC News

More protests hit Tata Nano plant [India]

Production of the Nano, billed as the world's cheapest car, has been suspended indefinitely amid reports of more disturbances at the factory. Tata Motors has decided to look for alternative manufacturing sites after violent protests by farmers in West Bengal where the plant is located. Farmers want the return of 400 acres of land purchased to build the plant. Tata said the situation at the plant was "hostile and intimidating"…The opposition Trinamul Congress party, which has been leading the protests, said they were not seeking Tata's withdrawal from the area…But they said the land on which the plant in Singur is being built had been forcibly acquired from "unwilling" farmers…