Ford Motor ceasing production in India leaves its workers high and dry

Company in talks with automakers to sell Chennai plant, says TN govt official

A few months from now Maraimalai Nagar, a sleepy satellite town located 45 kilometres from Chennai and home to the manufacturing facilities of Ford India and BMW India, will lose an important landmark — the Ford India factory.

A similar fate awaits the Ford factory in Sanand, 21 km from Ahmedabad. An uneasy calm surrounds the two units after the sudden announcement by the Michigan-based automaker on Thursday to discontinue vehicle manufacturing in India.

Amid the gloom and doom, the Tamil Nadu government has provided workers at the Chennai factory a glimmer of hope as it has said it is