Indo-Russia joint venture company in Bengal grows and sells bananas instead of automobiles

in Industry and West Bengal are absolutely incompatible. A factory meant for automobiles and situated close to Singur where TATA wanted to build the Nano factory, is now producing bananas instead of accessories. It is Ural India's bus and truck unit in Haldia. Fruits and vegetables grown on the premises following lack of orders that brought production to a halt last November. The Ural management has engaged the workers in cultivation to keep them busy and reduce the burden of monthly wages.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 14 March 2016.

Singur was the poll plank of Mamata Banerjee to wrench power from the ruing Left Front but, in spite of her pre-poll promises of returning land taken over for the Nano factory by the TATAs, no land has been returned because the issue is pending in the Supreme Court.
Hence, the Ural experience is a unique one. Economies are expected to develop from a primarily rural agricultural society to an industrialized urban economy. But, in Bengal, everything is topsy-turvy. The factory employees 11 permanent employees and 35 temporary hands. They stay in the premises and grow vegetables to survive.
Ural is a joint venture between UralAZ of Russia and Motijug Agencies of Calcutta and there was no formal arrangement with the workers to grow crops. But, they grow bananas, spinach etcetera and sell them in the local market. They have a system to maintain record of what they sell date-wise and, at the end of the month, the total money they earn is calculated and deducted from the salary payable.


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