Overview

• The July 9 meeting at Nabanna brought Mamata Banerjee and Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran together for the first in-person talks since she took office in 2011.
• The session concentrated on strategies to deepen the Tata Group’s presence in West Bengal by fostering public-private partnerships for industrial innovation and growth.
• Chief Secretary Manoj Pant and CII director general Chandrajit Banerjee joined the hour-long discussion at the state secretariat.
• Both sides explored proposals for fresh investments, including a second TCS campus in Rajarhat and new Air India routes linking Kolkata to Europe.
• This engagement marks a turning point nearly 17 years after the Tata Nano plant’s relocation and the absence of major Tata investments in the state since 2008.