PUNE: With the automobile industry slipping into a gorge with no visible sign of revival in the near future, Tata Motors, India’s top automaker by revenue, and Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M), the country’s largest utility vehicle maker, have decided to cut production at some of their plants.

India’a largest commercial vehicle and leading carmaker, Tata Motors Ltd (TML), has internally announced a block closure for three days starting today, 8 August, at its production plants in Pimpri (Pune) and Jamshedpur. Mint also learns that Tata Motors’ luxury car unit, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), is also observing the block closure for three days starting today, in an attempt to cut down the volumes of locally assembled models.

Rating agency Icra on Monday downgraded non-convertible debenture programme, long-term loans, long-term fund-based facilities and long-term non-fund-based facilities to (Icra) AA- (negative) from (Icra) AA (negative).

While short-term debt programme, commercial paper programme and short-term non-fund-based facilities have been reaffirmed at (Icra) A1+. Data from Bloomberg showed that, total debt of Tata Motors stood at `1.06 lakh crore as on March 2019.

Tata Power and Tata Motors on Friday forged a partnership to install 300 fast charging stations by the end of this financial year in five key cities — Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad. The move will help in accelerating faster adoption to electric vehicles (EVs) in a market where an almost non-existent charging infrastructure has been one of the biggest deterrents.

Tata Motors on Tuesday said its shareholders have approved appointment of N Chandrasekaran as director on the company’s board. He is chairman of Tata Motors. In a regulatory filing, the company also said Nasser Munjee, Vinesh Kumar Jairath and Falguni Nayar have ceased as independent directors upon completion of their terms.

Tata Motors chairman N Chandrasekaran on Tuesday said that the company is examining various options around its UK-arm Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR), which has been hit by volume slowdown and mounting losses, including meeting multiple private players and looking for partnerships in China to lessen the financial burden on the group’s bottom line.

The government is working on a plan to merge state-run BSNL and MTNL as part of strategy to revive the ailing telecom companies. The Union Cabinet is expected to take a final call on the matter.

According to sources, the merger plan is one of the many components of the revival package, which also includes reducing retirement age from 60 to 58, asset monetisation and allocation of 4G spectrum.

Tata Motors did far worse than expected in the June quarter, with a consolidated loss of Rs 3,680 crore.

Most brokerages had expected a loss of around Rs 2,000 crore. This is its fourth loss in five quarters, with sales volume down 21 per cent over the year-ago period.

Fitch Ratings on Wednesday downgraded the long-term issuer default rating (IDR) of Tata Motors (TML) to ‘BB-’ from ‘BB’ with a negative outlook. The stock of Tata Motors ended the day at Rs 151.25, down by 3.17%, or Rs 4.95, on the BSE. Data from Bloomberg showed that total debt of Tata Motors stood at Rs 1.06 lakh crore as on March 2019.

Tata Motors is learning its lessons from customer feedback on electric vehicles (EVs), where range anxiety and high price looms large, according to Mayank Pareek, president of passenger vehicles business, who also blamed bad driving behaviour and traffic conditions for the poor range of its EV Tigor.

His comments come following complaints by government officials that the range is way lesser than what was promised by the company.

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