Officals from Talegaon, Halol plants and its corporate office in NCR asked to leave
By: KETAN THAKKAR, MUMBAI
An internal investigation into General Motors India’s controversial Tavera multi-utility vehicle recall has led to additional 30-35 key executives at its Indian operations being asked to quit, after the exit of senior R&D officials at the US headquarters last week. ET learns GM India’s HR has axed several dozen officials on Monday across its two plants in Talegaon, Maharashtra and Halol, Gujarat and its corporate office in the National Capital Region from various functions of quality, engineering and operations.
In an email response, GM India’s spokesperson told ET, “As per company policy, we do not comment on internal personnel matters.”
Last month, in a letter which ET reviewed, GM India admitted to the government that its internal probe had revealed the company violated testing norms and its employees re-fitted already approved engines in the new Tavera models sent for inspection, in an attempt to meet the specified emission norms.
GM also acknowledged that the weight of several of its models was manipulated to comply with less stringent emission norms. The company had suspended production and sales of two Tavera variants after it ‘discovered’ compliance failures and recalled over 1.14 lakh units of Tavera sold since 2005.
The government has formed a committee constituted by the ministry of heavy industry — the nodal ministry for the auto industry — under Natrip CEO Nitin Gokarn with the mandate to investigate specific checks on macro-manufacturing practices of auto companies. The findings of the report are likely to be released in the next few weeks. Greg Martin, spokesperson of GM at the headquarters in Detroit, had told ET last week, “GM’s investigation into our recall of Tavera, which is built and sold exclusively in India, identified violations of company policy.
Source: The Economic Times
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