Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant remains shut for second day

The country’s largest passenger carmaker, Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant remained closed for the second day after the violence on July 18, 2012 in which one senior company official was killed. Haryana Chief Secretary P K Chaudhery has formed special investigating team, taking a severe view of the violence, to investigate the matter.

The work at the plant has been completely stopped from 7 p.m. on July 18, 2012 with all the 3,000 workers going on strike.

The previous strike, in June 2011, which lasted for 59 days had resulted in production loss of about 80,000 cars and the direct revenue losses were pegged at 2,500 crore in the last fiscal year.