CHENNAI
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday visited the manufacturing plant of Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) in Oragadam here. He was received by the Managing Director & CEO Erich Nesselhauf and his team, which gave the visiting delegation an insight into truck production and the company’s vocational training programmes inspired by the German model. Daimler’s d subsidiary DICV has been active in the Indian market since 2012 and has delivered more than 60,000 vehicles to Indian customers under its BharatBenz brand, according to a release.
In Chennai, Mr. Steinmeier also visited the research park of the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras. The IIT-M was established with German assistance in 1959.
IIT-M director Bhaskar Ramamurthi said the German influence was instrumental in the strong collaboration the IIT-M has had developed with industry from the early years, culminating in the country’s first university-based research park.
