New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India on Tuesday said it expects the Manesar plant to reach to full production within next 2-3 days with the commencement of second shift operations.
The company will also increase the workers strength at the plant by around 700 people to 4,500 employees by December. Besides, 622 permanent workers of the plant have signed the three-year wage settlement agreement.
"Yesterday we started the second shift at Manesar plant. Currently we are assembling about 1,350 cars every day at Manesar and we are ramping up it gradually," Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) Chief Operating Officer (Production) M M Singh told PTI in New Delhi.
The company will reach its full capacity of rolling out 1,600-1,700 units per day in the next 2-3 days, he added. MSI is currently producing its popular premium hatchback Swift and sedan DZiRE at the Manesar plant. Besides, small car A-Star and mid-sized sedan SX4 is also assembled there....
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06:50 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the violence at the Manesar plant of Maruti Suzuki said that the violence was not triggered from outside, the automobile major denied having receiving any such detail or report from the Gurgaon police. When asked about the SIT report, the company said that it would not comment on the "basis of newspaper reports". The Special Investigation Team probing the violence...
01:35 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Special Investigation Team probing the violence that occurred at the Maruti plant in Manesar on July 18, 2012, has said that the violence was not instigated from outside. The SIT report says the violence resulted from internal issues between the company management and workers. The Haryana police has framed charges against 145 people after questioning 300 witnesses. A senior manager had died after workers had gone on...
08:28 AM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Wednesday said it expects to have full employee strength at its troubled Manesar plant by the end of September with the completion of fresh recruitments. "The regularisation of contract workers and new recruitments are going on and this will be over in the next 10 days. By the last week of September, our total manpower will be in place at Manesar plant," MSI...
01:32 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Maruti Suzuki chairman RC Bhargava was perplexed at the company's shareholders' meeting on 28 August. He said he could not understand the rage behind the ...
07:59 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: Suzuki Motor Corp Chairman Osamu Suzuki on Sunday said the Japanese car maker is committed to its investments in India even as he expressed concern over the time being taken to find the cause for violence at the Manesar plant of its subsidiary Maruti Suzuki. "In any case Japan's Suzuki has no plans to withdraw from India nor to stop production at Manesar. We are here for the...
12:38 AM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: Japan's Suzuki Motor Corporation Chairman Osamu Suzuki will meet Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday. The meeting assumes significance in the backdrop of violence at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant last month. Suzuki, who is on a week-long visit to India to attend the annual general meeting of SMC's Indian arm Maruti Suzuki on August 28, is expected to be accompanied by the top management of the...
12:39 AM, Aug 26, 2012
Chandigarh: Despite the recent violence and the complete shutdown at its Manesar unit, automobile giant Maruti-Suzuki will invest Rs 1,700 crore in a new plant of the Manesar unit, a Haryana minister said on Friday. State Industries Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala told the assembly that Maruti-Suzuki will invest Rs 1,700 crore for setting up the C-plant in its Manesar unit near Gurgaon, 45 km from New Delhi. He said that...
01:25 AM, Aug 25, 2012
Mumbai: Shares of Maruti Suzuki India on Tuesday settled about one per cent higher after the company resumed production at its Manesar plant amid heavy security, a month after a lockout was declared due to violence. The scrip closed 0.68 per cent up at Rs 1,185.10 on the BSE. Intra-day, the stock gained 1.55 per cent to Rs 1,195.3. At the NSE, the stock ended 0.96 per cent higher at...
06:38 PM, Aug 21, 2012
In an exclusive interview to CNBC TV18's Shereen Bhan, Maruti Suzuki chairman RC Bhargva said it would not be surprising to see the unions taking the matter to court. ...
05:08 PM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: Even as Maruti Suzuki reopened its plant at Manesar on Tuesday, certain trade unions staged a sit-in at the Jantar Mantar in protest against the sacking of 500 employees from the factory. The protest was led by Delhi Metro Kamgar Union, which is an independent trade union. However, Left-affiliated unions and Maruti workers' unions were conspicuous by their absence. ...
01:26 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Maruti Suzuki India on Tuesday reopened its Manesar plant amid heavy security, a month after a lockout was declared due to the violence. ...
10:45 AM, Aug 21, 2012
Manesar: Maruti Suzuki India on Tuesday reopened its Manesar plant amid heavy security, a month after a lockout was declared due to the violence in which one senior company official was killed and 100 others injured. Workers are standing in queue outside the factory gate to enter the plant amid heavy rain. Haryana Police has provided 500 personnel, out of which 200 are inside the plant and 300 in areas...
09:55 AM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India will resume partial operations in its Manesar plant on Tuesday amidst heavy security, a month after violence claimed the life of a top official and injured 100 others while leaving a trail of destruction. Only 300 permanent workers will resume duty on Tuesday and the company will operate single-shift till the time the management decides to ramp up output from the plant. "We are reopening...
04:01 AM, Aug 21, 2012
New Delhi: After a month-long lockout at its Manesar facility, Maruti Suzuki India is ready to reopen the plant on Tuesday with less than a tenth of its total workforce slated to resume operations in a single shift. The company had declared an indefinite lockout at the Manesar plant on July 21 following the worst ever violence in its history on July 18 that left one senior official dead and...
05:00 PM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: Left parties and their affiliated trade unions will intensify pressure on the government, inside and outside Parliament, to seek reinstatement of 500 Maruti Suzuki workers sacked in connection with the violence at its Manesar plant. The pressure tactics may include demand by the Left parties for adjournment of Parliament's regular business to take up the issue. The trade unions may also approach the court challenging the Maruti Suzuki...
05:01 AM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki will resume production at its Manesar plant from August 21, sources say. They, however, add that trouble could spark off again with union workers protesting against the sacking of 500 regular workers for the July violence. The management also plans to put in place 100 armed security guards at the Manesar plant. On Thursday, the police arrested the main accused in the violence, Jiya Lal. The...
09:52 AM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki has decided to resume production at the riot-hit Manesar plant from August 21 even as the main accused in the violence that led to the shut down was arrested on Wednesday, almost a month after the incident. Addressing the media, Maruti Suzuki Chairman RC Bhargava announced that 500 workers have been sacked for indulging in violence in which a senior plant official was killed and several...
05:01 PM, Aug 16, 2012
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India on Monday deferred till Friday taking a final call to reopen of its violence-hit Manesar plant following a meeting of the company's top brass. "We may be able to complete the total assessment of the situation at the Manesar plant by Friday and expect a clear picture to emerge regarding the reopening of the plant by then," Maruti Suzuki India Chief Operating Officer (Administration) SY...
04:40 AM, Aug 14, 2012
Gurgaon: The country's major carmaker Maruti Suzuki is expected to partially restore production at its Manesar facility within the next 10 days. An important exercise to this effect will to take place on Monday, company sources said. An announcement is expected during a high-level meeting between the Maruti Suzuki management and the Haryana government. The plant, which has two production lines assembling some 1,200 cars a day, was shut following...
12:14 AM, Aug 13, 2012
