US carmaker General Motors has said its technical centre in Bangalore will soon emerge as Asia’s best, surpassing its centres in China and South Korea in terms of innovation and headcount.
The company is on a hiring spree for its Indian technical centre. In the past four months, around 150 employees have been recruited taking the total strength to 1,600. The workforce in the Indian technical centre will touch 2,000 in the next one year.
P Balendran, vice-president (corporate affairs) of GM India, said the Indian technical centre is doing cutting edge work in powertrain technology, design and vehicular engineering. ?We may soon over take GM’s other technical centres in China and South Korea and become the company’s third largest technical centre after the ones in the US and Germany.? GM’s Indian technical centre comprises three vertical units – Research and Development (R&D), Engineering Centre and Design Studio. The tech centre was started with only one engineer working for its R&D division in 2003. Later another vertical?the Engineering Centre – was added, and then the company added its Design studio in 2008.
Currently the company’s technical centre has been functioning in a rented building covering 3.50 lakh sq ft in Bangalore.
