Utility automobiles main Mahindra & Mahindra on Monday stated it has superior the annual upkeep plant shutdown of its automotive division to this month within the wake of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic throughout the nation.
The upkeep of 4 working days was initially scheduled for June 2021, M&M stated in a regulatory submitting.
“Due to the evolving COVID situation in the country, the company has scaled up its efforts to ensure health and safety of its employees, associates and supporting ecosystem,” it stated.
Accordingly, the corporate stated it has determined to advance the scheduled “maintenance of four working days, in each of its automotive division manufacturing plants, to the month of May 2021, in a staggered manner”.
M&M’s automotive division has manufacturing items at Chakan, Nashik, Kandivali, Zaheerabad and Haridwar.
“The company continues to work closely with its dealers and suppliers to minimise the impact of disruption in operations due to localised lockdown restrictions in various parts of the country,” it stated.
Other corporations, together with Maruti Suzuki, Hero MotoCorp, MG Motor India, Honda MotorCycle and Scooter India (HMSI) and Suzuki Motorcycle India have already introduced non permanent suspension of producing operations because the devastating second wave of COVID-19 sweeps throughout the nation.