Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), the largest car maker in the Indian auto market, is all set to enter its next phase of expansion in the Indian market with shifting its car manufacturing operations to its proposed Gujarat plant from its existing facility in Gurgaon in the coming years. It has been more than 25 years since the company is manufacturing its cars at its Gurgaon plants, but now it feels that these plants have become too congested to carry forward the car making operations.
Speaking to ET at the Mr. RC Bhargava, Maruti Suzuki Chairman, "Gurgaon is just too congested to have a car assembly plant. It's no longer an industrial area; with residential and corporate offices coming up, the massive traffic movement due to large-scale manufacturing of cars often creates huge hindrances."
It is to be mentioned here that the company has already started decongesting its Gurgaon plant with stopping two manually operated car assembly lines, there. The company said that it plans to gradually convert this facility into a component and engine manufacturing hub, by stopping the car manufacturing operations in phased manner.
Last year, the company had finalized to establish a new manufacturing plant in Gujarat with an initial capacity of 2 million cars per annum. "We have no scope for expansion at Manesar, so any additional capacity will come up in Gujarat and eventually would turn out to be our hub for making cars in India," he added.
