Tata Chemicals launched affordable water purifier named “Swach” which is priced less than Rupees 1000/- Swach is manufactured using nanotechnology. Tata Swach is a result of a collaboration between Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Chemicals and Titan Industries.

Tata Swach is developed to solve one of the crucial problems of rural India – access to clean drinking water. Tata Swach water purifier doesn’t require electricity or running water to operate. It can purify up to 3,000 liters of water. When this capacity is reached, the cartridge stops water flow, giving the user enough time to replace the cartridge.

Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Sons spoke at the launch: “Safe drinking water is the most basic of human needs. The social cost of water contamination is already enormous and increases every year. Although today’s announcement is about giving millions more people affordable access to safe water, it is an important step in the long-term strategy to find a solution to provide affordable access to safe water for all.”

The Tata Swach technology combines low-cost ingredients such as rice husk ash with nanotechnology and has been rigorously tested to meet internationally accepted water purification standard.

The cheapest car in the World, Nano by Tata Motors will be launched on March 23rd 2009. The peoples car which will be priced around INR 1,00,000(US$2500) will be having an annual production of about 1,50,000 cars. There will be two other mid and top-end versions are expected to be closer to the Rs 1.6-lakh mark and could account for over 70 per cent of sales. The car was initially planned to be manufactured at the West Bengal, Singur Unit, but due to the problems occurred, it has been shifted to Gujarat.

Ratan Tata had published a letter in West Bengal news paper addressing to the youth of West Bengal. In his letter he quotes

Would you like to support he present government of Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharya to build a prosperous state with rule of law, modern infrastructure and industrial growth or a state consumed by a destructive political environment of confrontation, agitation, violence and lawlessness".

"Do they want education and jobs in the industrial and hi-tech sectors or," the letter goes on to say, "does the future generation see their future prosperity achieved on a ’stay-as-we-are’ basis?"

One of the youth from West Bengal responds

I am very sad to what has happened to the Nano project at WB.We as a youth want development project to come in West Bengal which would provide employment to the youth directly and indirectly . I am totally for a pro industry Buddhadev goverment which is trying hard to change the face of the state . Mamata banerjee with her irresponsible politics has put the state 40 years back and robbed thousands of thier jobs . She along with like minded politicians should be dumped to Bay of Bengal

TATA project at Singur may be moved to a new place if a settlement is not reached soon. This was a very ambitious project nationally and internationally. Mukesh Ambani also spoke supported the TATA’s