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The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India has said it will hire at least 2,300 people, mainly for its upcoming two new plants in Manesar, within the next two years.
With the induction of these people, the company’s workforce will expand by about 27 per cent to nearly 11,000 employees.
“At this moment, we are hiring a minimum of 1,500 people in this fiscal. These people will be taken on board for different verticals like manufacturing, marketing, supply chain and R&D,” the company Managing Executive Officer (Administration), Mr S.Y. Siddiqui, told PTI.
MSI had announced to invest over Rs 3,625 crore to set up the two new plants with 2.5 lakh annual capacity each. The company is aiming to open the second unit in Manesar by September-October, while the third one is scheduled to be operational in 2012-13.
When asked about the plan for the third plant at the Manesar facility, Mr Siddiqui said: “Apart from the planned recruitment for this fiscal, we will hire about 750 people alone for the third plant coming up in Manesar... This will be in 2012-13.”
He said the company will hire more people over and above the planned recruitment for the third unit during the next fiscal, but the outlay has not been finalised yet.
Besides fresh investment at Manesar, the company is investing Rs 2,500 crore for its K-series engine plant and setting up a dedicated R&D facility at Rohtak.
Elaborating on the hiring plan for this year, he said: “With the new plants coming up at Manesar, we are hiring 746 young technicians, 150 diploma engineer trainees and 96 laterals for the second unit.”
The rest of the planned hiring for this fiscal will be done for other divisions of the company. The company will bring in new people under various routes of trainees such as technicians, diploma engineers, graduate engineers, executives and managements, he said.
Maruti Suzuki India, which is 54.2 per cent owned by Suzuki Motor Corp (SMC), employs 8,617 people as on March 31, 2011.
The company has an annual capacity of 8.5 lakh units at its Gurgaon plant, while the existing plant in Manesar can produce 3.5 lakh units annually, with the overall capacity totalling 12 lakh units per year.
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