Nano

The commissioning of new plants is expected to bring down import dependency to less than half the current levels

This is owing to rising domestic production, nano supplies

It has, however, admitted that in its current form the Nano will not meet the new safety regulations and BS-VI emission norms

Begins/As Sanand continues to make the Tiago, now expected to touch a production of 5,000 units a month, the flagship product of the site, the Nano has almost faded into the background. Amidst rumours that the company is contemplating to discontinue the Nano, numbers tell a story. Sanand produced only 515 Nanos in January, and sold even lesser, around 391 units. Cumulatively, between April 2016 to January 2017 it produced 7,472 units down 62 per cent from 19,686 units in the year before period. A total of 7,105 Nanos were sold during the April-January period in FY17, down 62 per cent. An Ahmedabad-based dealer of Tata cars who did not wish to be identified said that the new launches from the company's stable including the Tiago and now the Hexa have drawn considerable footfalls to the showrooms. In fact, the company saw its sales surge by 44 per cent to 104,395 units for compact segment which as per SIAM includes the Indica, Indigo CS, Zest, Bolt and the Tiago. Considering Indica and .

Tata Motors said it would reduce the number of PV platforms to 2 from 6 by 2018