R. Bhargava

“Manufacturing in India is not just the manufacturing OEMs. Manufacturing has to include the supply chain. You know, one of the earliest learnings when I joined Maruti was that I thought as a car maker, we can make most of the car. I didn't know much about the industry at all. I very quickly learned that actually car ma...”

— From RC Bhargava Reveals What India Must Fix to Become a Manufacturing Superpower, ET Auto (July 15, 2026)

“See, what is harder this time is that the technology for a major component like a battery which is almost 40% of the cost of an electric car is not available. It's largely held by the Chinese. And they don't part with the technology just like that. So, we have a big problem in that area.”

— From RC Bhargava Reveals What India Must Fix to Become a Manufacturing Superpower, ET Auto (July 15, 2026)

“The growth which I am talking about is now largely in our case constrained by our production capacity. We are running plants at 100%. And this year we have just added two new lines. One at Kharkhoda, one at Hansalpur, each of 250,000 units. These will gradually pick up production. And we expect that in the whole year b...”

— From Maruti Suzuki Ready For CAFE 3 Norms, Growth Limited By Capacity: Bhargava, Business Today (May 05, 2026)

“Maruti has always felt that in the Indian environment relying on any one technology to get to net zero is not appropriate. We need to encourage other technologies, particularly now in the context of what's been happening we need to develop our own sources of energy like biofuels, whether it is CBG or whether it is etha...”

— From Maruti Suzuki Ready For CAFE 3 Norms, Growth Limited By Capacity: Bhargava, Business Today (May 05, 2026)

“There was no national policy. There was no national goal that we have to make cars available to the common people or that the car industry in India should grow or that it should become one of the major industrial activities here that it should export cars. No question of all of that. The only thing we had in our mind w...”

— From How Maruti Became India’s Largest Car Company | EP 10 | Janak ft. R.C. Bhargava, Janak Mehta (December 01, 2025)

“I think the most important thing for industry to grow is what are the values and objectives of the leader. Is the leader focused totally on the growth of his company or does he have other objectives like his own personal wealth creation so that he ranks somewhere amongst the fortune 500 rich people of the world? Does h...”

— From How Maruti Became India’s Largest Car Company | EP 10 | Janak ft. R.C. Bhargava, Janak Mehta (December 01, 2025)

“What happened to me was largely because some politicians thought that they had a right to get some benefits from Maruti, Maruti vendors and others. I had always taken the view that I will not allow anything to be done which will in any way harm the interests of Maruti either in the short term or the long term. And that...”

— From Maruti Suzuki Chairman: India's Car Revolution Started With A Mother's Grief | R.C. Bhargava, Mukul Deora (December 01, 2025)

“The first is to distinguish between what I can change and what I cannot change. And having done that to learn to accept what I can't change. Second thing, and this is earlier from the earlier Gita teachings, it remained with me. Do your best for what you are required to do. Don't get stressed with the result. Don't wor...”

— From Maruti Suzuki Chairman: India's Car Revolution Started With A Mother's Grief | R.C. Bhargava, Mukul Deora (December 01, 2025)

“I think the real impact of GST on numbers and growth and maybe margins is likely to happen from the third quarter onwards.”

— From OEMs To Rework Product Mix As Small Car Sales Rise: R.C. Bhargava, Business Today (October 01, 2025)

“Each company will have to see what it can do. It's not possible for companies which have never made small cars to suddenly get into the small car segment and maybe they will have to adjust if they want to get any reasonable share of the Indian market.”

— From OEMs To Rework Product Mix As Small Car Sales Rise: R.C. Bhargava, Business Today (October 01, 2025)

“I believe that this reform and the cut on GST for small cars particularly and to some extent for bigger cars will result in the growth of the car industry which has been stagnating as you know for the last 2 three years. that growth will go back to the original 7 to 8% which we were experiencing in the past and I belie...”

— From Entry Level Cars Like Alto To Get Cheaper By 8-9% | Maruti Chairman RC Bhargava, Business Today (September 18, 2025)

“on the alto for example I expect the price to come down by about 8 and a half% or maybe nearer 9 something between 8 and a half and 9%.”

— From Entry Level Cars Like Alto To Get Cheaper By 8-9% | Maruti Chairman RC Bhargava, Business Today (September 18, 2025)

“Well, I think this major reform by the government is going to make not only a big difference to the automobile industry but is going to make a big difference to the economy as a whole. Certainly the small car segment is the big beneficiary.”

— From GST Cheer For Autos: Expect 10% Growth For Car Industry Compared To Single-Digit Growth: RC Bhargava, CNBC-TV18 (September 03, 2025)

“I believe that the demand for small cars is going to pick up again because there has been a suppressed demand for years. Customers have been waiting for relief. This year the government has done a number of good things which have combined to give the customer a great feeling of optimism in the future. Whether it was th...”

— From GST Cheer For Autos: Expect 10% Growth For Car Industry Compared To Single-Digit Growth: RC Bhargava, CNBC-TV18 (September 03, 2025)

“The western management practices have always been managed in a way where the workers who are 60 70% have been looked upon as adversaries to the owners of the company and the management and the total human resources in a company are actually divided into two in terms of management and workers.”

— From Maruti Suzuki Chairman RC Bhargava reveals the key to managing workers in manufacturing, ET Auto (June 09, 2025)