[5][6] Built in a record time of 14 months starting November 2008, the integrated facility comprises Tata Motors’ own plant, spread over 725 acres, and an adjacent vendor park, spread over 375 acres, to house key component manufacturers for the Tata Nano.
Luring the plant "to Gujarat had been a coup for [then-Chief Minister Narendra] Modi," that according to Robert D. Kaplan in his book Monsoon (p. 110) Tata Motors’ plant for the Tata Nano at Sanand, located in the Ahmedabad district of Gujarat.
It was awarded the CII’s GreenCo Platinum Certification for being a zero discharge plant with systematic hazardous waste disposal process.
[8] The 1100 acres of land[9] which was allotted to Tata Motors falls in the villages of Khoda and Bol in Sanand Taluka.
Tata Motors paid Rs 900/sqm (US$81,000 per acre) to the Gujarat Government for the land in Sanand.