PTI cited ruling out any possibility of manufacturing Jaguar and Land Rover in India in the near future, Mr Ratan Tata CEO of TATA group as saying that some silly taxes make even their assembly here costlier than the imports.
TATAs are building a plant in China which will export these cars to different parts of the world and have been invited by Saudi Arabia as well.
Mr Ratan said that "India is still making it somewhat difficult for us to offer it."
He said that "They are being assembled now (in India). Unfortunately, today if we were to manufacture here, it would cost more than the assembled one."
Asked about the difficulties in manufacturing these cars in India, he added that "Because we do not have scale of manufacturing here, we are selling about a 1,000 Jaguars a year and you would need to be at least four to 5 times that in order to justify the investment that you would make."
He said that "So unfortunately, the assembly here is turning out to be more costly than importing the cars because of some silly taxes that they have been imposed on companies."
He added that "Government should really look at doing things to incentivize people to bring more investment to India so that it becomes a base of exports, which unfortunately is not happening and China is doing that."
He further added that "We are building a plant in China which will export to different parts of the world. Even Saudi Arabia is asking us to come there and India is still making it somewhat difficult for us to offer it."