| With almost every Indian state pitching in to offer land for the world's cheapest car project, now its turn for the for the Karnataka government to stick out a helping hand to Tata Motors for producing the Nano. Karnataka's chief minister B S Yeddyurappa made the offer during a meeting with Tata Motors managing director G Ravi Kant and senior company officials at the state secretariat in Bangalore. The state government has offered 1,000 acres (400 hectares) "with all facilities" to manufacture the Nano. A spokesman from Tata Motor's said. "We are obviously happy," but added no decision had been made on whether the auto giant would abandon its nearly-completed plant in Singur, West Bengal. The Karnataka offer is the latest in the list of offers being fed to Tata Motors ever since the situation in Singur brought the Tata factory to come to a standstill. According to Tata official 13 other Indian states have offered land in order to set up a new Tata Nano plant; these states include Haryana, Rajsthan, Maharastra, Punjab, and Andhra Pradesh. Even neighbouring country Sri Lanka has recently offered the Tata Motors all the facilities and the land, to help relocate its Singur car project to their country! Tata has poured 350 million dollars into the West Bengal plant, but it cannot complete the project and begin production due to violent protests by the state opposition party and farmers who say their land was stolen. Efforts to resolve the stand-off have so far failed, with protesters rejecting a government rehabilitation package and an offer to return some of the land. Tata Motors had said it hoped to launch the Nano in October this year. Though there haven’t been any talks of a delay on this front, the Singur issue is bound to impact the eventual rollout of the much awaited Tata Nano small car. 
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