Tata Motors Ltd will start moving its engineers out of Kolkata in about a week's time.
The company had started test runs for engines at its Pune facility in September after it work was
stopped indefinitely at its Singur plant from August 29, leading to the abandoning of the Singur project site on October 3.
Another TML team was working at the Pantnagar plant in Uttarakhand on the outer shell of the car. These combined efforts were expected to make up for the workdays lost in Singur.
Engineers, so long working at Singur, were expected start leaving in batches for either Pune or Pantnagar starting from mid-October.
A core team would remain at the TML Kolkata offices to supervise the movement of equipment out of Singur, according to sources in the company.
The Kolkata team was likely to coordinate with vendors and work on the timeline for launch from anew locations with the learnings from the Singur project site.
The company could manufacture engines at its Pune facility while the rest of the car could be assembled at Pantnagar till a new mother plant was set up.
TML was expected to decide on the alternate location for the new mother plant.
Since September, a team of engineers had been