Cummins to Enhance Women's Representation in Workforce
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siliconindia | Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 10:06 IST
Mumbai: Cummins India, manufacturer of engines, generators and related components, seeks to enhance women's representation and take it to 50 percent of overall employee strength in three years.
The firm, which has completed 50 years of operations, plans to raise the women employees' percentage to 50 across its businesses by 2015, Cummins said in a release here today.
"In keeping with Cummins' philosophy of diversity in the workplace, the company has endeavoured to realise a greater representation of women in its overall employee strength and has catapulted it across its product businesses. Cummins aims to further grow this number to 50 per cent by 2015," Cummins India Managing Director Anant Talaulicar said.
In 2011, the percentage of women employees rose to 25 from 5 percent in 2005, the release said.
"We aim to further grow this number to 30 percent by the end of this year and to 50 per cent by 2015," he said.
Cummins and its eight affiliates collectively operate 20 manufacturing facilities and employ close to 14,000 people across as many as 200 locations in the country.
Talaulicar said, "Completing 50 years evokes a great sense of pride for not only all of us in India, but also the larger Cummins family across the world. With combined sales of $ 2.3 billion in 2011, our businesses in India continue to grow profitably at double digit rate."
Source: PTI