In addition, there is an opportunity for relooking at productivity norms and plant layouts. automakers have slashed production which has affected about 3,50,000 jobs across vehicle manufacturing, components and distribution segments in the past three months. The affected employees include about 2,30,000 at dealers, 100,000 in the auto component industry and another 15,000 casual and temporary workers. Around 3,000 temporary workers have lost jobs with Maruti Suzuki as admitted by Chairman RC Bhargava. These were temporary workers whose contract were not renewed due to the slowdown. This data is for Tier I companies and if we add numbers of Tier II and III companies then the number could go to 1 million!!