Coming out for a Hero

摘要

The Hero motorcycle plant at Gurgaon, an industrial city near New Delhi, India's capital, is a model of order. The lawns are closely cropped, the plant pots well tended. The shop floor is spotless and divided into three parts. Frames and petrol tanks are welded and painted in one section. Further along, a team of 150 people in white overalls work at close quarters piecing together the components of the thousands of motorbikes made here each day. Engines are built in a third, air-conditioned zone. Assembly-line staff earn around $800 a month, a handsome wage by Indian standards. This is the sort of jobs-intensive manufacturing that Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, would like more of.