Things haven’t been going smooth at Bajaj’s Chakan plant for the past one year as the management and the workforce have been regularly engaged in a tussle. In fact, last year the plant was shut down for close to 50 days as workers had gone on a strike. Bajaj Auto had suffered huge losses at that time as the lockdown had affected its sales. With the workers union announcing another similar strike, Bajaj Auto has decided to shift close to 50 per cent of the Pulsar from its Chakan plant in Pune to the Waluj plant in Aurangabad to avoid loss in sales. Before this shift, the Waluj plant used to produce 25 per cent of the entire Pulsar range production.
Company officials haven’t confirmed yet whether this shift is permanent or a temporary one. This decision will, however, depend on the positive outcome of the negotiation between the company management and the workers. The Chakan plant manufactured 80,000 units of the Pulsar range on a monthly basis. This figure has now dropped to 45,000 units per month. Bajaj has announced that it will not shift the production of the Avenger and the KTM range from its Chakan plant. Currently 5,000 to 6,000 units of the Avenger and KTM range is produced at the Chakan plant on a monthly basis.
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