Tokyo: The world's largest car maker by
volumes, Toyota Motor Corporation, on Thursday said it will hire
2,000 more people in India as the auto maker gears up to
launch a small car in the country by 2011.
Toyota Motor Corp, which runs its Indian operation
through a joint venture -- Toyota Kirloskar Motor -- with the
Kirloskar Group, is constructing the second plant at its
Bangalore facility with an investment of Rs 3,200 crore to
manufacture the small car.
"We will require a strong manpower to roll out our small
car from India. We will have an additional 2,000 people in our
second plant which is currently under construction," Toyota
Kirloskar Motor (TKM) Managing Director Hiroshi Nakagawa told
a news agency at the ongoing Tokyo Motor Show here.
He said the company has started the recruitment process
and it will be completed by the time the plant is commissioned
in 2011.
The plant will have an initial annual production capacity
of 70,000 units, which could be expanded up to two lakh units.
TKM has an existing facility in Bangalore with an annual
installed capacity of 80,000 units. The existing plant has
about 4,000 people, which include staff from the sales and
marketing division also.
Besides hiring new employees, TKM is also planing to
shift some of its employees to the upcoming plant from the
existing one, Nakagawa added.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 14:10