The Hindu Business Line : Ashok Leyland to roll out BS III vehicles from Jan

ASHOK Leyland Ltd has drawn up plans to roll out the entire range of Bharat Stage (BS) III compliant vehicles from January 2005 to meet the Union Government's pollution control norms to come into force on April 1, 2005.

Speaking to newspersons on Wednesday, Mr K.N. Krishnamurthy, Special Director, Customer Care, said that the BS III compliant vehicles would be launched across segments and be available in various options of diesel-powered vehicles and CNG-based ones for both passenger and goods vehicles. However, these would be initially available for 11 major cities that are required to be BS II compliant.

"The Government had decided to implement these norms in a phased manner beginning with these 11 cities. This was decided since it would not be possible for oil companies to provide fuel to meet these norms at one go across all cities in the country. This initial demand would mean about 15 per cent of overall company production in the country," he said.

Launching a workshop of Automotive Manufacturers, the company's 138th dealer, Mr Krishnamurthy said: "We are in the process of expanding the dealer network across the country. This is particularly being beefed up in the North-Eastern part of the country, Jharkhand and Bihar. This dealer network is being handled internally."

He added: "Ashok Leyland plans to grow overall sales this year by about 12 per cent up from 45,000 vehicles to over 50,000."The Executive Director of Automotive Manufacturers, Mr Rajiv M. Sanghvi, said: "With increasing thrust on after-sales service, we decided to create a major service centre spread across 1.8 acres with six bays and two quick repair bays. This would enable us to provide convenient annual maintenance and care to customers."

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