Tata Nano and Bajaj to clash in India
April 15th 2009 02:42
Soon Tata Nano and Bajaj will clashin a war for Delhi's roads. The Nano is poised to become more by necessity than choice the cab of 21st Centurey Dlehi and Mumbai. The day and age of Rahul Bajaj is over it seems.
Western environmentalists are in a tizzy, the Nano they say is a threat to the environment and they are pushing for all kinds of curbs against it. It is easy under any international trade agreement to impose a ban on a product on health and environmental grounds, so wny not try and make a health issue out of it. But what is Tata trying to do? Is he trying to kill western car and bus companies with his product as western and western funded environmentalists will have us believe or is he trying to replace dangerous and unsafe modes of transport with a safe mode of transport and those treatened by the advent of such a car are most concerned by this development as this treatens their business and not the environment. The Nano will replace first and foremost the scooter and the motor cycle and those who are crying themselves hoarse saying this will add to air pollution will admit at other forums that a car any car is less polluting per capita than a motorcycle.
Now Esty sahab allow me to have my piece of Indian say. The Nano is going to drive out several other forms of transport and one of them will be the pollution belching Three wheelers of Delhi for try and prevent it as much as you may the Nano will end up being a commercial vehicle and with its phenomenal fuel average and size advantage become a taxi too. Its size and price will make it all the more lucrative and ask any working girl in Delhi or Lucknow or Bangalore whether she would like to be driven around in a Bajaj Scooter with three wheels or a Tata Nano with its weather protection I am sure her answer would be the Nano. Since Bajaj and Bus companies stand to lose a substantial share of their market they are bound to be incensed but the Nano as a public transport vehicle will provide more security, more comfort and more speed than the present crap we have today operating in the name of public transport. It will also save tax payers money. The big cabs shall continue to exist but it is high time that environmentalists shut up about air pollution and talk about the real problem they face, in this recession Tatas is the only company willing to battle it out against European giants and their funded environmentalists for a space for Indians under the sky and on the road.
Just because when everyone said no and Tata said Nano, there is no need to fret. It is the best thing that is about to happen to India and especially Delhi. Fuel guzzling and oversized monsters have grabbed too much of read space there, In the name of controlling air pollution lakhs of vehicles were forced off the streets and thousands of families rendered homeless, the lines for CNG refilling forced several suicides in Delhi and today these lines still exist in Lucknow but the only difference made to air pollution was that it got worse. The real difference that came was actually unleaded petrol because of which the black soot vanished from the air, otherwise the invisible pollutants still remain and Nano can help reduce it. I am sure if asked Tata will be willing to provide battery and CNG taxis too.
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