Mahindra Truck and Bus Division
the country has been hampered in several ways in recent years, but moves are definitely being made to alleviate this. On 1st July 2017, the government’s newly announced goods and services tax came into effect, which is designed to tighten the rules governing the transpor tation of goods across state borders. By allowing only those businesses with all the compliant documentation to transport goods in this way we believe it will lead to more efficient movement between states. “At the same time, the government has assured that any future changes in regulations and legislations will be enacted while giving due notice to companies to respond to these. This is par ticularly impor tant considering that the country introduced Bharat stage (BS)-IV earlier this year and has already mandated to bring BS-VI into place by April 2020.” Venkat and the rest of the Mahindra Truck and Bus Division family have some very ambitious plans of their own for the business in the coming years. “We have already announced plans to increase our portfolio of trucks and buses as we look to fill some of the gaps we have identified in the market and in our own offering, and this will pick up pace in the next couple of years,” he describes. “At the same time, we will continue to gear up towards the introduction of BS-VI standards in 2020. “We are also excited about some of the new innovations and technologies being brought to market. For our par t, we recently launched a new telematics platform, DigiSense, for use in our trucks. This technology is going to aid our customers by letting them keep track of their truck, monitoring its performance and allowing them to communicate with us regarding any aler ts of early warnings of failures. Such advances have us excited about what is happening in our industry and we see changes like these, and those relating to regulations and legislation, as not necessarily being challenges, but oppor tunities that we can utilise to take the business forward. While we are conscious not to bite off more than we can chew, we
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We have already announced plans to increase our portfolio of trucks and buses as we look to fill some of the gaps we have identified in the market and in our own offering, and this will pick up pace in the next couple of years
have a great degree of optimism for what the future holds and our ability to grow and strengthen the business.”
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