India's largest automobile company, Tata Motors on Saturday reported a 34% fall in total vehicle sales to 40,481 units in January.

The company had sold 61,660 vehicles in the same month last year.

Domestic passenger vehicle sales dropped to 10,974 units in January, down from 15,209 units a year earlier.

Tata Motors sold 8,463 units of Nano, Indica and Indigo cars and 2,511 units of Sumo, Safari, Aria and Venture vehicles, the company said in a statement.

In the commercial vehicles segment, domestic sales declined about 40% to 25,683 units from 42,571 units in the corresponding month of the previous year.

Exports were 1.44% lower at 3,824 vehicles. Cumulative sales from exports for the fiscal were 40,068 units,  the company said.