Nitin Gadkari invites Tata Group to invest in Nagpur

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has invited Tata Group to invest in his hometown Nagpur and surrounding areas, saying that the city has facilities like infrastructure, land availability and connectivity. Gadkari has said in a letter to Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran on October 7 that Tata group companies in the steel, auto, consumer products, IT services and aviation sectors can choose Nagpur for their investment.

Chandrasekaran had recently said at an event that the Tata group is exploring investment opportunities in electronics, renewable energy, electric vehicles and other advanced sectors and is in talks with the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government.

This letter, shared with the media on Saturday, has been written at a time when many big projects are moving out of Maharashtra's hands to Gujarat. Foxconn-Vedanta alliance's Rs 1.5 lakh crore semiconductor plant moved from Maharashtra to Gujarat. After this, an aircraft manufacturing project of Rs 22,000 crore investment of Tata Group and Airbus has also been announced from Maharashtra to Gujarat.

In this letter, Nitin Gadkari has said that 'Multi-Modal International Hub Airport at Nagpur (Mihan) has more than 3,000 acres of land in SEZ and non-SEZ area. He said that many companies have made their base in this area.

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