Tata Nano ready to roll out of Sanand next month

Tata Nano ready to roll out from the mother plant in Sanand in the coming weeks After operating from a makeshift plant for more than a year, Tata Motors will finally breathe a sigh of relief when the mother plant in Sanand, Gujrat will begin rolling out Nanos next month. Tata will attain the initial capacity of 250,000 units per year in a gradual manner. It can produce up to 500,000 Nanos a year without breaking into a sweat. Presently the Nanos come out of Tata’s Pantnagar plant in the state of Uttarakhand where it also manufactures its Ace mini truck . Due to the lack of infrastructure and the load of meeting heavy demand of the mini truck, only a maximum of 4,000 Nanos could be produced a month. Trial production of the Nano began in December last year in the Sanand plant which costs 2,000 crore rupees to construct. The Sanand plant also comprises of a vendor park and the company says that all the 56 vendors have agreed to shift to Sanand from Singur, where a farmer strike forced Tata to vacate the premises. More than 25,000 Nanos are plying the roads of India, roughly 1/8th the number of bookings registered last year. Tata Motors will finish completing the deliveries by the end of 2010.