<p>Maruti Suzuki will continue to dispatch cars from its stockyard at the Manesar plant to dealers across the country although it has declared a lockout at the factory.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"The dispatch operations won't be affected and will continue from Manesar," Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) Chief Operating officer (Production) M M Singh said.<br /><br />The stockyard at Manesar plant has inventory of about 26,000 units at present, he added.<br />The company had resumed dispatching cars from the stockyard to various dealers across the country on Friday. On Wednesday, violence broke out at the plant where a senior official was burnt alive and 100 others were injured.<br /><br />The Manesar stockyard is also used for delivering cars produced at the company's Gurgaon plant to various dealers across the country.<br /><br />Yesterday, the violence-hit company declared an indefinite lockout at its Manesar plant, the first such instance in its history, but firmly ruled out the possibility of shifting operations to Gujarat.<br /><br />"There is now a lockout. To me, what is more important is safety of my colleagues than producing some cars to make some money," Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) Chairman R C Bhargava had said at a press conference here.<br /><br />Asked how long the lockout will continue he said, "Maruti is not closed...we will be very inefficient if we take six months. I don't think we are that bad...we will start at Manesar."<br /><br />The company also said it was completely overtaken by the 'Tsunami-like' violence that it had not anticipated and announced they would not employ casual labour from March next year in production related operations, although they would be hired for "non-valued added" work like cleaning, security, canteen services, loading and unloading.<br /><br />MSI also said hiring of the casual workers would be done directly by its HR division, instead of outsourcing it to a contractor as was done earlier.</p>
<p>Maruti Suzuki will continue to dispatch cars from its stockyard at the Manesar plant to dealers across the country although it has declared a lockout at the factory.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"The dispatch operations won't be affected and will continue from Manesar," Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) Chief Operating officer (Production) M M Singh said.<br /><br />The stockyard at Manesar plant has inventory of about 26,000 units at present, he added.<br />The company had resumed dispatching cars from the stockyard to various dealers across the country on Friday. On Wednesday, violence broke out at the plant where a senior official was burnt alive and 100 others were injured.<br /><br />The Manesar stockyard is also used for delivering cars produced at the company's Gurgaon plant to various dealers across the country.<br /><br />Yesterday, the violence-hit company declared an indefinite lockout at its Manesar plant, the first such instance in its history, but firmly ruled out the possibility of shifting operations to Gujarat.<br /><br />"There is now a lockout. To me, what is more important is safety of my colleagues than producing some cars to make some money," Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) Chairman R C Bhargava had said at a press conference here.<br /><br />Asked how long the lockout will continue he said, "Maruti is not closed...we will be very inefficient if we take six months. I don't think we are that bad...we will start at Manesar."<br /><br />The company also said it was completely overtaken by the 'Tsunami-like' violence that it had not anticipated and announced they would not employ casual labour from March next year in production related operations, although they would be hired for "non-valued added" work like cleaning, security, canteen services, loading and unloading.<br /><br />MSI also said hiring of the casual workers would be done directly by its HR division, instead of outsourcing it to a contractor as was done earlier.</p>