Gujarat Govt. to Allot 400 Acre Plot in Sanand to Ford Motors

The government of Gujarat will allocate a 400 acre plot to the leading US auto company Ford Motors for setting up their second manufacturing facility in India. The INR 5,000 crore plant will be located near the main facility of Tata Nano in Sanand, about 40kms from Ahmedabad.

The government will also set aside an additional 100 acres for a vendor park. The government will be making a formal announcement today. Meanwhile, the head of Ford’s Africa and Asia Pacific division, Joe Hinrichs, and the MD and head of Ford India, Michael Boneham will sign a memorandum of understanding with the government of Gujarat for sealing the deal. Ford India already has a manufacturing facility in Chennai.

According to Ford, keeping with their long term commitment in India, the company plans on pursuing an aggressive strategy of growth for bringing international standard vehicles in India. As part of this plan, the company will launch 8 new models by 2015. For this, the company is making a significant expansion of its production capacities in their existing plant in Tamil Nadu, and also exploring different options for meeting the increasing demand in India, and from export markets worldwide.

This move by the company comes at a time when another major auto company, Maruti Suzuki also expressed their interest in opening a facility in the state of Gujarat. Other companies, which plan to open plants in Gujarat, include PSA Peugeot Citroen, and two wheeler manufacturers Bajaj Auto and Hero Honda.

Officials of French car manufacturer, Peugeot Citroen already visited Gujarat and are in the middle of finalising this project, which would also be located close to the Tata Nano facility. The company is likely to make a formal announcement in a month. Another auto major, Bajaj Auto is also planning on opening their largest and fourth manufacturing facility in Gujarat near Mundra port. This plant is also to manufacture a passenger car, for which Bajaj has tied up with Nissan Renault.

3 thoughts on “Gujarat Govt. to Allot 400 Acre Plot in Sanand to Ford Motors

  1. good maruti & now FORD want to come in gujrat….but here i want to know that in gujrat goverments is only have red carpet for large scale industries. today there is more than fifty industries still in way for clearance from revenue department of gujrat. accoding to tenanacy act 63aa industries can buy a land for bonafied industrial purpose.in all over gujrat and district collector issue 63 aa certificate to industries on this land but. land which falls in within the five km of peraphry of urban development authority or local area development authority which required such clearance from revenuedepartment of state goverment today date 2/06/2011 there are more than fifty industries is waiting for their clearance from state goverment. due to delay in clearance they facing major problem like banking finance,electricity, construction work revenue departments taking long time more tahn six month for clearance….so i ahve an request to mr narendra bhai modi sir, plz give an attention on this issue of revenue department.

    1. TO : VIJAYKAMANI

      YOU ARE RIGHT MAN BUT WHO LISTEN’S TO OUR COMMENTS HERE.. MR. MODI WILL NOT READ HERE.. LOL

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