Friday is an important day for India’s West Bengal state and for the country’s reputation as a place to invest. West Bengal’s Communist government and the main opposition party, the Trinamool Congress, are to try to settle a dispute over a Tata group plan to make the world’s cheapest car, the Nano, in the state. (Watch video here)

The government wants the project to become the flagship of industrial resurgence in the state. But the opposition is demanding that Tata returns some of the land for the project to farmers whom it claims were forcibly evicted. Tata, for its part, has threatened to move the plant to another state. For Tata, moving the plant would be calamitous. (See slideshow here)