Maruti's both plants are in the Gurgaon-Manesar industrial area, where the company employs 13, 000-14, 000 permanent workers.
It has a diesel-engine manufacturing plant at Manesar that can produce 300, 000 engines a year.
Maruti has two car manufacturing plants--Gurgaon and Manesar in the northern state of Haryana.
Maruti's other facility is at Manesar, also in Haryana, where it makes both gasoline- and diesel-run vehicles.
Gaur is pretty unsettled by the fact that MUKU's flag is flying high at the company's Manesar plant.
The company for several months starting in June last year, grappled with frequent labor agitation at its Manesar plant.
It makes models such as the Swift and the Swift Dzire at Manesar.
The new diesel-engine plant will be at Gurgaon, while its diesel-car capacity will be increased at Manesar, Mr. Bhargava said.
Ltd. gave a day's off to workers at their manufacturing facilities in the Gurgaon-Manesar, a New Delhi neighborhood which has seen recent violent worker problems.
Violence at the Manesar plant follows months of difficult labour relations.
Maruti Suzuki is currently adding to its production at Manesar, where a third assembly line for 250, 000 vehicles a year will go on stream before 2014.
It already has one factory each located in Manesar and Gurgaon in the north Indian state of Haryana, which can together produce 1.4 million vehicles a year.
Almost every strike at the numerous factories in the Gurgaon-Manesar region in the past decade has started with companies refusing to recognize the demand of workers to form a union.
According to gurgaonworkernews.com, a Web site that documents labor issues in Gurgaon-Manesar-Faridabad industrial areas, there are 192 automobile companies and component makers in the belt that are partly or fully owned by foreigners.
The company says it already has a union, the Maruti Udyog Kamamgar Union (MUKU), at its Gurgaon plant and if workers at Manesar want a union, they should come under the MUKU umbrella.
The company locked out employees at its plant in Manesar for about a month after a senior manager was killed and a part of the facility was damaged in labor unrest in July.
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