Volkswagen, one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest car producer in Europe plans to hire 1,500 people for its Chakan plant alone in Maharashtra. The group assemblies cars of its thre brands – Skoda, Audi and Volkswagen in Chakan and Aurangabad.
The company plans to launch the small car, Polo next year and is now undertaking pre-production testing of the car at the Rs 3,800-crore Chakan plant, which has an annual capacity of 1.10 lakh units. “Currently we have about 1,000 people employed with the group. We will require a strength of 2,500 employees once the plant will start production at full capacity in the next 2-3 years,” Mueller said.
