Maruti Indian R&D centre at Rohtak
Published On Aug 22, 2009 12:18 PM By Vikas
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India’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki’s has proposed to built its Indian R&D centre in Rohtak. 700 acres of land has been acquired for the purpose from the Haryana government. The land allotment agreement was signed by Maruti Suzuki MD and CEO Shinzo Nakanishi and HSIIDC MD, Rajeev Arora, in Rohtak on Friday.The upcoming facility of Maruti, which is the only such unit by Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC) outside Japan, will see MSIL making an investment of Rs 1,000 crore.
100 acres will house the Suppliers’ Park and company’s vendor partners will bring in further investment in their plants at the dedicated Suppliers’ Park within the R&D complex, which will be completed by 2015.Apparently, the set-up will be developed as the parent Suzuki Motor Corporation’s global R&D hub for small cars.
The passenger car R&D centre will have India’s first state-of-the-art car test track and include other high-tech facilities like wind tunnel and frontal and side car crash testing. Maruti will make global cars for SMC in the near future like the popular hatchback ‘Maruti A-Star’ made only in India and exported to Europe and other overseas markets under the Suzuki Alto badge.
MSI managing executive officer (engineering) IV Rao said: “It will catapult Maruti into the next league as a car maker capable to develop new cars and platforms on its own. We are targeting 2012 to develop cars indigenously.”MSIL will complete phase 1 by 2012, which will see an investment of Rs 400 crore, while the balance Rs 600 crore will be invested by 2015.
