Kancheepuram, August 10: Auto mobile giant Hyundai Motor India Ltd. (HMIL) said the company would continue with its various Community Service Responsibility (CSR) programmes around Chennai city.
Speaking to reporters after inspecting the health screening programme being carried out at the government school at Sriperumpudur here today, H S Lheem MD of Hyundai Motor Ltd. said Hyundai was conducting health check-up programmes in rural areas twice an year.
He said a team of 50 speciality doctors, along with 130 college students from Korea, had stayed in and around Sriperumpudur for six weeks during each of the two seasons of every year and interacted with the people on hygiene, health and education of the rural area.
On the production plans of automobiles, Lheem said only some units of the Hyundai I20’s manufacturing plant would be shifted from Inrungattukottai.
He said “this too only the European version and not the ones being exported to ASEAN countries and the ones sold in India.”
Shifting was only to beat the cost escalations resulting from 6.5 per cent export duties and logistics, like shipping expenses, he added.
He said they were planning to recruit 1,000 new workers.
—Agencies