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New Delhi, July 12: Motorcycle production has been suspended at the Manesar plant of Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India, which is in the midst of a major labour unrest.
“We had to stop production of motorcycles as almost all the existing manpower and resources are being diverted for scooter production,” a senior company official told PTI at Manesar. The company sells only one model motorcycle in India, the 150-Cc Unicorn. Since its launch last year, the model, which primarily competes with Bajaj’s Pulsar model, received encouraging response in the market. “The production of Unicorn was stopped on June 27, when production levels were severely hampered due to the ongoing strike,” HMSI general manager (manufacturing) V Sridhar said. The profitable HMSI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan’s two-wheeler major Honda Motor Co, has scooters as its mainstay in India and is credited with reviving the sagging sales of the scooter market. The strike, due to which the company has suffered losses to the tune of Rs 100 crore, has seen production levels going down drastically.
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