Auto plant grows plants in Haldia

March 14, 2016 18:17

The economics textbook has been rewritten in a Bengal factory whose sorry state of affairs has brought to fruition a "dream" Mamata Banerjee could not fulfil in Singur till now.

Fruits and vegetables are being grown on the premises of Ural India's bus and truck unit in Haldia after lack of orders 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, staff at the plant said.

Around 130 km away lie the Singur plots taken over for the aborted Nano plant, which are yet to be returned to farmers in spite of an overdrive by the chief minister as the issue is pending in the Supreme Court.
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