Workers put together to load a Maruti Suzuki Baleno automobile right into a practice at India’s first car in-plant railway siding challenge at the Maruti Suzuki Hansalpur plant, about 80 km from Ahmedabad on Tuesday.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated “India’s first automobile in-plant railway siding” at Maruti Suzuki India Ltd’s (MSIL) wholly owned subsidiary Suzuki Motor Gujarat Private Ltd.’s unit in Becharaji, Gujarat, by way of video conferencing.
Part of the Gati Shakti programme, the in-plant railway siding is predicted to cut back carbon footprint in logistics, deliver down fossil gasoline consumption, and cut back highway congestion, MSIL mentioned. Once absolutely operational, the power can dispatch 3 lakh automobiles yearly to fifteen locations throughout India, it added.
The challenge is a collaboration between Gujarat Rail Infrastructure Development (G-RIDE), Indian Railways, the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), and MSIL.
“Today marks a significant milestone as we become India’s first automobile company to have a railway siding facility within its manufacturing plant,” Hisashi Takeuchi, Managing Director & CEO, MSIL, mentioned in an announcement.
“As we gear up to double our production capacity from present 2 million units per annum to 4 million units per annum by 2030-31, the dispatches of vehicles from railways too will increase multi-fold. This in-plant railway facility reinforces our commitment towards sustainable mobility,” he added.
