While international consultants working in the plant have returned home, Tata Motors sources said that Singur employees will be absorbed elsewhere.
"To minimise the impact it may have on the recently recruited and trained people from West Bengal, the company is exploring the possibility of absorbing them at its other plant locations," a company statement said.
Tatas' threat comes at a time when a number of states including Maharashtra, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Uttarakhand are wooing them to set up the facility.
Tata Motors had evacuated its entire workforce from the Singur facility on Thursday in the face of numerous
instances of intimidation from protesters at the site.
A section of scientists, engineers and professionals on Tuesday expressed concern at the happenings at the Tata Motors Nano plant at Singur, and said that it had come at a time when West Bengal was fast becoming a favourable spot for setting up new industries and was attracting considerable investments.
"We feel people of West Bengal will express themselves in favour of industrialisation," they said.
"This new spate of industrialisation and associated infrastructural growth is the dream for each and every citizen and are all poised to welcome this positive change," a representative of the group said.
Image: Mamata Banerjee at the dharna site | Photograph: Dipak Chakraborty
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