Tata and nano

An ambitious project called Shubh Griha, which will offer low-cost homes at under five lakh rupees across India, is underway from Tata Housing Development Company. Nicknamed "Nano Housing,” the first property under this project, an integrated township, is in Boisar (around 100 km from south Bombay), and will be followed by construction across Tier-1 and Tier-2 cities, with Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region) and Bangalore on top of the list, according to a report in The Indian Express of May 7, 2009.

Ratan Tata launches Swach water purifier

After the Nano car and Nano Housing, the Tatas launched in December a water purifier named Swach (which means clean or pure in Hindi) in two variants priced at Rs 749 and 999 each. "Safe drinking water is the most basic of human needs…We are happy that we would be able to provide millions more people an affordable access to safe water,” stated Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata in The Indian Express of December 8, 2009. With a target of a million pieces for the first year of launch, the Tata Swach needs no running water or electricity and is packaged as a 19-liter box. It was created in a TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) laboratory, the silver nanotechnology was added on by Tata Chemicals and Tatas’ watch unit Titan made the precision machine tools to manufacture the filter, as per press reports.