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Maruti Suzuki to setup its third manufacturing plant in Haryana
Chandigarh, Aug 29 (KNN) Maruti Suzuki will be setting up their third manufacturing plant in Kharkhoda in Sonipat, Haryana. The company currently has plants in Gurugram and Manesar.
As per reports, the facility will have the potential to manufacture 10 lakh passenger vehicles per year, making it one of the largest passenger vehicle manufacturing facilities at a single site in the world.
While virtually addressing the programme held in Gandhinagar to mark 40 years of Suzuki Motor Corporation in India, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said the state has become an automobile hub.
“The third Suzuki manufacturing plant will be an important milestone in the prosperity of the state as well as the region,” he said.
The first phase of the project will be set up with an investment of over Rs 11,000 crore.
During the programme in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stones of two key projects of the Suzuki Group in India, the Suzuki Motor Gujarat Electric Vehicle Battery Manufacturing Facility in Hansalpur, and Gujarat and the vehicle manufacturing facility in Kharkhoda, Haryana.
“Many countries are investing in Haryana, but Japan has a special place. Nearly 1,450 units of Japan are working in the country, of which 28 per cent are in Haryana alone”, he added.
From 2019 till now, Rs 40,000 crore worth of investment has come into the state. This has be made possible due to a congenial atmosphere which the state provides including ease of doing business to cost of doing business.
On this occasion, Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala said that Sonipat region would also develop on the lines of Gurugram and a large number of ancillary units will come up in Kharkhoda. (KNN Bureau)
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