Maruti Suzuki India chairman on challenges, price hike after BS-VI shift

Amid the nationwide lockdown to check the Covid-19 spread, India will quietly transition to BS-VI, the most stringent emission standard for the automobile industry anywhere in the world. R C Bhargava, chairman of Maurti Suzuki India, speaks to Arindam Majumder about the learning, challenges, and scope of a price hike in a bruised economy. Edited excerpts:

Do you think that BS-VI deadline should have been extended because of the lockdown?

I am one of the interested parties in this. So my view is not an objective one. But the fact is we had completed the transformation to BS-VI by about