Capacity addition in Gujarat on track despite drab market: Maruti Suzuki

Third line to be commissioned by April 2020, additional 250,000 cars a year to be rolled out

Despite a dull market outlook, the third line of auto major Maruti Suzuki's Gujarat plant will be commissioned by April 2020, said Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. chairman R C Bhargava.

"We will still go ahead with the third line. You have to take a calculative risk. It is better to have a little bit excess capacity than lesser capacity," said Bhargava in Ahmedabad on Friday, ahead of the foundation stone-laying ceremony of MSIL's hospital and school projects in Sitapur. 

SMC's 100 per cent subsidiary Suzuki Motor Gujarat Pvt Ltd has set up the Gujarat plant in the Mandal-Becharaji region of Mehsana, where