Maruti Suzuki India not shifting jobs, investment from Haryana to Gujarat: Chairman RC Bhargava
“The plants in Haryana will continue to work in full capacity. Employment will remain full, there’s no change in employment. No production is going away from Gurugram. If this (Dzire) goes away some other model will be made here. It’s a rationalisation of how to make different models in the most efficient manner,” Bhargava said.
He was responding to remarks of Congress General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala who on Monday criticised the Haryana government over the shifting of Dzire production from the state to Gujarat.
Surjewala had termed the development as a “body blow to Haryana” and accused that “instead of bringing jobs and industry to Haryana” the BJP-led state government was “pushing the mother automobile unit out of the state”.
Bhargava, however, said a company like Maruti Suzuki with over 15 models “has to adjust from time to time what to produce where so that it is most efficient”.
“By doing that, neither does the employment in any site change nor does the investment change, because the investment is in the production line, the paint shop and the weld shop and those don’t change,” he asserted.
