Bullock carts and bytes jostle together in the Sanand industrial belt on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. But don’t be misled by the rustic settings. Ever since Tata shifted its massive Nano factory almost overnight from Singur in West Bengal in 2008, the township has flourished as a manufacturing hub. Now with three of the world’s most sophisticated semiconductor chip factories being set up, Sanand is poised to become India’s newest Silicon lodestone.
