In 1981 Maruti car company was formed which led to the creation of modern car industry in India. Maruti which started as public sector company with a Japanese partner Suzuki Motor Corporation, wading through cumbersome bureaucratic procedures and socialist ideology that was then prevalent. Maruti had to find a suitable partner finalise all legal documentation, get government approval to these agreements as well as to the investment proposals, build a factory, develop a supplier base to meet localisation regulations, create a sales and service network and develop and launch a people affordable car that would sell in excess of 100, 000 units per year, in a sector where Indian expertise was limited. Then making 100, 000 cars annually, was fragmented and technologically obsolete. Today India has become the third-largest manufacturers and is set to double its capacity to 4 million cars by 2030. RC Bhargava, who joined the company from its inception, emphasises, that Maruti’s learnings not only apply to just one industry but  more crucially to India’s growth aspirations. Manufacturing is vital, and making impossible to possible, with one of the best management and development.

Impossible to Possible by RC Bhargava, Bloomsbury.