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Kolkata, September 26 The Tata Motors officials have agreed to talk to the Bengal government on September 28 following Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s personal letter to Ratan Tata, urging him to restart work in Singur. But Pune is still emerging as the most favoured destination for the Nano launch.

The biggest hint of this came from the vendors who have been asked by Tata Motors to meet in Pune on October 16. The meeting — described as a “national level” one — will have the Singur impasse on agenda.

A vendors’ meeting on such a scale had not been held in the recent past. Sources in the vendor companies said in the meeting, the Tatas will take a final call on the site from where the Nano ancillaries will be delivered.

Confirming the meeting, the Tata Motors, however, said it had nothing to do with the Singur impasse.

A spokesperson said: “We will have the annual vendors’ convention on October 16. This is not at all related to the Singur issue. It is a routine yearly meet.” He, however, was not able to give the date or the venue of the last year’s meet.

The vendors, however, are hoping for a decision on the impasse. “The Tata Motors has informed us about the meeting and we will attend it. We are hoping that there will be a decision on Singur as we have been in the dark for over a month now,” said a senior executive of Endurance Group, which is to supply the aluminium die cast components for Nano, mainly gear housing, engine castings and bracket.

“There needs to be a solution to this. Our imported equipment is gathering dust in Singur. We have decided to shift all our machinery to our other plants on Monday,” said a senior executive of Endurance Technologies, which was supposed to supply exhaust, converters, and suspensions. The company, he said, had received a schedule for order from October 1 for supply to the Pune plant. “We will be supplying the components from our plant in Nashik,” he added.
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