After scouting many sites in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, the Tatas has decided to set up the project at Sanand, the outskirts of Ahmedabad, where the State government will give around 1,000 acres land from the Anand Agricultural University (AAU).

During the worst famine in 1899-1900, Jamshedji Nasarwanji Tata, founder of Tata empire, had donated Rs 1,000 to save the Kankrej cows in the animal pound on the same land.

The pound is no more but a tombstone bearing the name of Jamshedji Tata with the amount of donation is intact along with the names of other donors.

“Jamshedji Tata had donated Rs 1,000 which was a large sum of money in 1900 AD, for the Gau Savardan Kendra to save the dying cows of Kankrej which were brought to animal pound on the same land which is being offered to the Tata,” Ravubha Vaghela, a farmer-turned-industrialist of the area said.