Maruti Suzuki's 3 reasons why rural mkts are doing better than urban areas

The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) is seeing better demand in rural areas due to less number of Covid-19 cases as compared with urban regions which continue to reel under the high number of cases of the infectious disease, as per a senior company official.

Buying sentiment in rural areas is also better due to good initial spell of rains in June which has led to a better sowing of the kharif crop.

"Rural demand is little better than urban right now. In Maruti, the rural share has gone up to 40 per cent in June which is 1 per