Dunlop to resume production in Sahaganj factory soon

September 3rd, 2009 KOLKATA - Kolkata-based tyre manufacturer Dunlop India will resume production at its Sahaganj factory in West Bengal around the Durga Puja festival in late September after remaining closed for 10 months, a top company official said Thursday. "The Sahaganj plant will resume production either just before the Puja, or right after the Puja.

August 21st, 2009 KOLKATA - Two industrialists - Pawan Kumar Ruia and cricket czar Jagmohan Dalmiya - were Friday pulled up by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for failing to execute projects. Banerjee, participating in an interaction with industrial chambers here, criticised the Ruia Group chairman for not delivering orders for railway rakes on time and asked him about the status of his closed Dunlop factory at Shahgunj in West Bengal.

July 25th, 2009 KOLKATA - Tyre maker Dunlop India may suspend operations at its Sahaganj factory in West Bengal if electricity connection is not restored within 15 days, a top official said here Saturday. "Electricity problem is holding back production.

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March 10th, 2009 KOLKATA - Tyre maker Dunlop India, which reopened its Sahaganj plant in West Bengal March 6 after remaining shut for more than three months, Monday said it will retain all its workers and start production within two months. 'We expect the production to be on in the next couple of months' time.

March 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - Tyre maker Dunlop India's Sahaganj unit in West Bengal reopened Friday after remaining shut for over three months, with the company saying production could start in 30 days. The Dunlop management informed employees Tuesday through a notice at the factory gate about the resumption of operation, and said production will commence once the repairing and refurbishing of the plant was completed.

March 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - Tyre maker Dunlop India's Sahaganj unit in West Bengal re-opened Friday after remaining shut for over three months but did not resume production. The Dunlop management had informed employees Tuesday through a notice at the factory gate about the resumption of operation, and said production will commence once the repairing and refurbishing of the plant is completed.

March 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - After remaining shut for over three months, tyre maker Dunlop India Tuesday said it will reopen its Sahaganj unit in West Bengal March 6. 'Through a notice at the entrance of the Sahaganj plant, the management of Dunlop India Ltd has informed its employees today (Tuesday) that the operations at the plant will resume on and from Friday, March 6, 2009,' the company said in a statement.

March 3rd, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Birla Tyres, a unit of the BK Birla Group company Kesoram Industries, resumed production at its Orissa plant Monday, a company official said. The factory at Balasore town, some 200 km from here, was closed down temporarily Feb 16 for the third time on account of poor market conditions.

February 6th, 2009 SINGUR - Giving the West Bengal government seven days to return the land it acquired allegedly by force for Tata Motors' project here, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Saturday said farmers should divide the land among themselves if the state failed to keep to the deadline. Adopting a tough posture at a rally close to the plot where stands the abandoned factory that was once slated to roll out the world's cheapest Nano car, Banerjee said the Trinamool-run village bodies would back the peasants if they forcibly took hold of the 400 acres.

January 13th, 2009 PATNA - Work at the Nalanda ordnance factory in Bihar has got underway after a four-year delay, an official said here. The original plan to start the factory to make propellants for heavy calibre artillery to be used in Bofors guns, was scuppered as its partner firm got embroiled in corruption charges.

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December 26th, 2008 KOLKATA - West Bengal's principal opposition party Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Saturday met Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi and discussed a range of issues with him. During the meeting at the Raj Bhavan here, Banerjee discussed the reopening of the Dunlop tyre factory in Sahaganj, handover of the unused Singur land to the farmers and the Primary Teachers' Training Institutes (PTTI) controversies with the governor and sought his intervention into the vexed issues.