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Auto Industry to miss growth targets this fiscal
Posted on 12 Feb 20131,537 Views Comments
The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) predicts that the country's automobile industry will miss all growth targets this fiscal
Heading towards its worst performance in a decade, car sales declined 12.5 per cent to 1,73,420 units in January, its third consecutive slide and the fifth in six months, as carmakers now pinned all their hopes on fresh sops in the upcoming budget.
The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), apex body of the Indian automakers that released the manufacturing data for the month of January on Monday, said that industry would miss all growth targets in the current fiscal year.
"The low sentiment couple with decelerating economy is likely to push Indian auto industry to its lowest growth since FY'2002-03, when car sales dipped 2.1 per cent," said Vishnu Mathur, director general, SIAM portraying a gloomy outlook for the industry.
SIAM had earlier issued a forecast of 0-1 per cent growth of cars in FY'13, which would be rectified after the upcoming budget by the end of this month.
The industry lobby group would soon come out with new projection based on current dwindling demand being witnessed in the domestic market originating from the slowing Indian economy.
In January all the major carmakers posted marginal rise or negative sales.
The market leader, Maruti Suzuki car sales remained flat at 88,557 units from 88,377 units in the same month last year.
While South Korean Hyundai Motor India had posted 1.45 per cent increase to 34,247 units as against 33,756 units last year.
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