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Financial Chronicle – 8th July, 2008 As Tata Motors prepares to launch its One-lakh wonder, Nano, in October this year, a group of about 30 women from Singur, the site of the controversial plant, are busy manufacturing important components for the world’s cheapest car. They all have been trained by Tata Yazaki Autocomp (TYA), a joint venture between Tata Motors and Yazaki Corporation of Japan, a leading manufacturer of wiring harnesses for the automotive industry. These women are engaged in producing integrated modular wiring harness (to provide power to the vehicle), high-tension cables (for carrying heavy currents from the battery to other parts of the vehicle, exclusively used for petrol variants), connectors and terminals. The product range includes specially designed double-locking systems, water-proof connectors and terminals), junctions and fuse boxes (for car safety and protection). These women have been trained as part of Tata Motors’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) aimed at ameliorating the lives of the local people and neutralize the opposition to the Nano manufacturing plant at Singur. “It has been the Tatas’ philosophy and guiding principle ever since its inception to change the lives of the people, wherever it goes. And it’s not just by way of recruiting some people locally, but also by drawing up a long-term sustainable programme. This is as important to us as the project itself,” a Tata Motors spokesperson told Financial Chronicle. "The activities undertaken as a part of the company’s CSR focus on enhancing employability of men in the community, creating employability for women and improving health and educational facilities," the spokesperson said. Consider this: The canteen at the manufacturing plant, spread over 645 acre, is now being run by 25 local women, whose training at the Institute of Catering and Hotel Management was sponsored by Tata Motors. There are other groups engaged in tailoring, making garments, gloves, small electronic items, food articles like pickles and condiments. Seed money for these initiatives also came from Tata Motors. The Singur plant, whose construction started in January last year along with the vendors park (spread over 240 acre) adjacent to the mother plant has so far “hired close to 250 boys and girls from various villages in Singur who had earlier registered with the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation. They had undergone training at different it is and a 15 months’ hands-on training at Tata Motors facilities to make them multi-skilled," the spokesman added.         |
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