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Ashok Leyland, and a Forty-Six-Year Fight Over a Gearbox Plant

Ashok Leyland's decades-long dispute over a small parcel of forest-classified land at its Bhandara gearbox plant highlights the complexities of industrial land acquisition, regulatory approvals, and infrastructure expansion in India's automotive manufacturing sector.

14 Jul 2026 | 374 Views | By Shahkar Abidi

 

On June 25, a general manager named Rajendra Chandrashekhar Thakare signed his name beneath a company seal in Gadegaon, a village in Maharashtra's Bhandara district, and sent a filing to India's forest bureaucracy.

Ashok Leyland Limited, the country's second-largest maker of commercial vehicles, formally asked the government's ...

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