1 The Minister of Industrial Development and Company Affairs, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, in a statement to the Lok Sabha on 12 November 1968.
2 ‘Growth Story—The Indian Automobile Industry’, paper written by Dilip Chenoy, director general, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, for International Journal of Automotive Industry & Management, Vol. 1, Number 1, 2007, Korea Automotive Research Institute, December 2007, page 49.
3 The Automobile Industry of India, 1964-65, Association of Indian Automobile Manufacturers.
4 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Automobile Industry headed by L.K. Jha, January 1960.
5 Discussion on motion regarding policy of government in regard to manufacture of car; Lok Sabha, 22 December 1972.
6 Heavy industries minister Charanjit Chanana answering a question in the Lok Sabha on 12 March 1980.
7 Heavy industries minister Charanjit Chanana’s statement in reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on 26 November 1980.
8 Heavy industries minister Charanjit Chanana replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha on 20 November 1980.
9 Note of the Project Appraisal Division of the Planning Commission, 25 June 1982.
10 Now known as the Society of Indian Automobile Industry.
11 AIAM Annual Reports, 1983, 1984.
12 AIAM Annual Report 1985.
13 AIAM Annual Report 1986, Maruti Udyog Ltd Annual Report, 1986-87.
14 Annual Report, Association of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, 1990; Annual Report, Maruti Udyog Ltd, 1990-91.
15 Chairman’s address by V. Krishnamurthy, 30 August 1985.
16 Incorporated in 1984, it changed its name first to Asahi India Safety Glass in 1986 and later to Asahi India Glass in 2002.
17 Mark Auto was taken over by Krishna Maruti, another joint venture in which Maruti participated, in 2005 and renamed Sat Krishan Hanuman (SKH) Metals.
18 It was renamed Sona Koyo Steering Systems in 1998.
19 Apart from Maruti, the other joint venture partners in each of these firms were: B.M. Labroo and Associates Indo-Asahi Glass Co. and Asahi Glass Co. of Japan in the case of Asahi Glass; Rohit Relan & Associates and SMC in Bharat Seats; K.M. Talwar and Rattan Kapur & Associates in Mark Auto; Machino Techno, M.D. Jindal and SMC in Machino Plastics; Surinder Kapur & Associates and Koyo Seiko in Sona Steering; S.K. Arya in Jay Bharat Maruti; Caparo Group Ltd and M.D. Jindal in Caparo Maruti; Kapur & Associates and SMC in Krishna Maruti.
20 The property, however, is still with Maruti and the workshop continues to function from there.