Maruti production capacity to touch 17.5 lakh in two years

Annual production capacity of country's largest car maker Maruti would touch 17.5 lakh units in the next two years, a company official said on Friday.

"Once the third plant (Plant C) is operational in two years, the total production capacity will be 17.5 lakh units", managing executive officer (production) of Maruti Suzuki, MM Singh, told reporters on the sidelines of a CII logistics seminar in Kolkata.

The three plants at Gurgaon and first plant (Plant A) at Manesar were having a capacity of 13 lakh units per annum, Singh said.

Once second plant (Plant B) was operational in four or five months, the annual capacity would rise to 15.5 lakh units per annum, he said.

Plant B was being made at an investment of Rs 1700 crore, Singh added.