Maruti vendors fear losses due to output cuts

With labour unrest taking toll on production at Maruti Suzukiplants , exclusive suppliers of auto components to the country's largestcarmaker fear heavy losses this festival season and have sought governmentintervention to help resolve the issues.

Impacted by frequent incidents of labour woes at thecompany, industry representatives on Tuesday sought intervention of HaryanaChief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to resolve the impasse and protect theinvestor friendly image of the state.

Industry representatives said that over 200 units supplycomponents to Maruti's Manesar plant alone.

"The labour problem at Maruti's plant has severelyimpacted ancillary units and vendors which are supplying auto parts to thecompany," Gurgaon Udyog Association, President, Parveen Yadav said.

Terming labour woes at Maruti as "unfortunate" forthe state, vendors said that they have failed to understand the reason behindfrequent strikes at the company.

"It is only during the festival season that we expectgood amount of business, as car sales surge in this period, but now because ofhampering of production (at Maruti), we are going to suffer heavily,"Yadav said.

A Gurgaon-based vendor pointed out that he was suffering dailyloss of Rs 30 lakh due to the labour trouble.

"I am unable to supply material to Maruti because oflabour problem at Maruti Suzuki...my daily loss has reached Rs 30 lakh,"said Ishwar Singh, who supplies plastic, sheet metal parts to Maruti's Manesarand Gurgaon plants.

Yadav said, "Maruti Suzuki is not a small company..itis a well known brand around the globe for car production. We demand fromHaryana Chief Minister to intervene into this matter and put an end to labourproblem at Maruti plant."