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Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant to start output from

August 21

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Ishpreet Singh Bagga



NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki, India's largest carmaker, willlift the lockout at its Manesar facility on August 21 and

restart production on a small scale.Initially, the Manesar Plant will operate under heavy security at one-tenth its capacity, with 300 workersearmarked to roll out 150 Swift hatchback and DZire sedan

on a daily basis from its two plants. Maruti had declaredthe lockout at the Manesar plant on July 21 after workers went on a rampage killing one official and injuring ahundred others.



The company will dismiss at least 500 permanent workers,

including the 154 workers who are currently in policecustody.The company said that based on the police investigationand its internal enquiries, it has identified at least 500

permanent workers who are believed to be involved in the violence and they 'will not be taken back'. Going forwardduring the course of investigation of the July 18 violence,the company said more workers could face the axe.



The carmaker plans to deploy 200 personnelof the Rapid Action Forcepersonnel at its Manesarplant to avoid a repeat of the violence on the shopfloor on July 18, that leftsenior HR executive

Awanish Kumar Dev dead and 96 othersupervisors and managerinjured.



Around 300 more RAF drawn from HaryanaPolice would be further

deployed around theManesar Industrial Area Maruti Suzuki wouldalso create and deploy a

special force of 100security guards,includingex-serviceman, at its

Manesar plant. Of these25 would be armed and

would operate close to

the core manufacturingoperations.



"We will also ensure mobile security with 40 personnelsecurity officers moving with our managers, supervisorsand other workers necessary for the safe and secureoperations at the Manesar plant," RC Bhargava, chairman,

Maruti Suzuki, said.The company plans to absorb all the 1,869 contract workers

who meet their criteria to carry out all major operations.Maruti has decided to do away with contract workers at the

shop floor with immediate effect and it will start a processof screening on September 2, to regularise the existingcontract workers.



Currently, the Manesar factories is manned by about 3,300 workers, 1,528 were permanent and 1,869 were on contract,the company said. "We plan to keep a 20% reserve forcethat would be utilised on need basis and as per the

production requirement," Bhargava added.

Maruti would gradually increase production to stablise it tothe pre-July 18 normal level of around 1,700 cars/day.

"We intend to start step by step. We need to see how theproduction goes, what the workers and manager take upthe task. As we stablise production, we would increase theoutput and enhance the workforce in Manesar," Bhargava

added.



Maruti is majority-owned by Japan's Suzuki Motor, whichreceives more than a quarter of its revenues from India.The Indian unit has lost around 75 crore in productionloses each day its Manesar plant remained shut.



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