Maruti Suzuki Chairman Osamu Suzuki meets Narendra Modi, Suzuki will check out the site for the proposed 4,000 crore factory

Maruti Suzuki Chairman Osamu Suzuki meets Narendra Modi, Suzuki will check out the site for the proposed 4,000 crore factory

Maruti Suzuki Chairman and Chief Executive Osamu Suzuki will be meeting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. Suzuki is on a two-day visit to the state and will be in Hansalpur in Ahmedabad to check out the site for the proposed 4,000 crore plant.
The company is expected to begin work on the project, its first outside Haryana, very soon.

Country's largest car manufacturer Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) plans to pump in Rs 4,000 crore - its biggest investment outside Haryana - by 2015-16. The overall capacity in the first phase will be 2.5 lakh units.

Maruti Suzuki India will set up a skill development centre in Gujarat.

The plan was conveyed to Chief Minister Narendra Modi by the Chairman of the company's Japanese parent Suzuki Motor Corp, Osamu Suzuki during a meeting on Friday.

Suzuki, along with Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) Chairman R C Bhargava and Managing Director and CEO Shinzo Nakanishi, called on Modi at his residence.

"I came to thank Mr Modi because he visited me in Japan, and I came (to India) to attend AGM of Maruti," Suzuki told reporters after the meeting.

The plant in Gujarat will generate direct employment for over 2,000 people, MSI had said.