Maharashtra minister Uday Samant on Friday claimed that the deal to set up the Tata-Airbus C-295 transport aircraft project in Gujarat was signed by the Center in September last year, when the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government was in power in the state. . ,
The state industries minister also criticized the opposition for creating “confusion” over the project.
Samant said the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for setting up the aircraft unit in Gujarat was signed by the Center in September 2021.
“Be it the Vedanta-Foxconn project or the Tata-Airbus project, the decision regarding setting up these projects was taken before the (Eknath Shinde-led) government came to power in the state at the end of June this year. The opposition is doing nothing but criticizing and creating confusion among the people,” said Samant.
“The central government had signed an MoU on September 2021 and the company decided to take the project to Gujarat,” he said.
The Defense Ministry said on Thursday that a consortium of Airbus and the Tata Group will manufacture the C-295 transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF) in Vadodara, Gujarat. Under this Rs 22,000 crore project, a military aircraft will be produced in India First time by a private company. Prime Minister Narendra Modi On Sunday, the European defense chief and the Indian will lay the foundation stone for the group’s manufacturing facility, which is being billed as a major boost to the domestic aerospace sector.
Following the announcement, Uddhav Thackeray and the Congress-led Shiv Sena faction criticized the Shinde-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state, questioning how the project slipped out of Maharashtra’s hands.
Samant said that he had said in a previous interview that the state government would try to get the project in the state.
“But I have not received any letter (by the MVA government) related to the project after the signing of the MoU,” he said.
Samant said that after the multi-billion-dollar Vedanta-Foxconn project was shifted to Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured the state of a mega project.
“We are confident that a big project will be brought in the state in five-six months,” he said.
Last month, an allegation erupted after the announcement that a joint venture semiconductor project between Indian conglomerate Vedanta and Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn, which was earlier proposed to be set up near the city of Pune, would come up in Gujarat.
The Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray-led faction, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress, all constituents of the MVA, have sought to corner the Shinde-BJP government over the Rs 1.54 lakh crore plant going to the neighboring state.
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