Gurugram, March 27 -- ANI visited Maruti Suzuki's sprawling manufacturing facilities at Gurugram and Manesar today, and noticed something that was once a rare sight on any Indian automobile shopfloor, women, working alongside men, assembling engines, fitting instrument panels, and overseeing production quality.

It is a quiet but significant shift, and one that India's largest carmaker says is very much by design.

At present, over 190 women are employed on Maruti Suzuki's shopfloors across its Gurugram and Manesar plants. They are not in peripheral roles. These women work hands-on in production quality control, instrument panel sub-assembly, rear door sub-assembly, transmission assembly, and engine assembly lines , including the technica...