Tata Motors to roll out over 2 lakh Nano by 2010-11

By ENN,
Ahmedabad: Tata Motors, a Tata Group company hopes to produce around 40,000 Nanos this fiscal though numbers will increase four-fold to over 1.7 lakh units during 2010-11, reports Business Line.

According to sources, the company has been compelled to use the interim plant in Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, for a large part of this year where it is difficult to ramp up volumes.

It is only from December 2009 that monthly production at Pantnagar will be enhanced to 5,000 units (from nearly 4,000 in October and November) and will stay at this level for the whole of 2010-11, sources said.

Sources further added that the new plant at Sanand in Gujarat would start rolling out small numbers of the Nano in February 2010. This is expected to go up to 1,200 units in March.

It is learnt that numbers at Pantnagar will stay steady at 5,000 cars a month through 2010-11, output at Sanand will be gradually ramped up to 5,000 units in May and twice as much from September 2010. November, December and January will see this further increase to 12,000 cars, going up to 15,000 units in February and March 2011.