Ola to have largest all-women plant globally, to employ over 10,000 women

• BySheetal Sidhu     |    September 13, 2021

 Ola Electric has announced it is employing an all-women workforce at its sprawling ‘Futurefactory’ facility in Bengaluru. In a blog post, Ola Electric chairman Bhavish Aggarwal announced the Ola Futurefactory will be run entirely by women, and that the company welcomed its first batch of factory workers this week. Once the plant reaches full capacity, it will have over 10,000 female employees.

Ola Futurefactory will become the ‘world’s largest women-only factory’ and also ‘the only all-women automotive manufacturing facility globally’. Ola Electric is working on training and upskilling women in ‘core manufacturing skills’ so that they are fully in charge of the production process of every vehicle manufactured at the Futurefactory.

Enabling women with economic opportunities improves not just their lives but that of their families and indeed the whole community. In fact, studies show that just providing women parity in the labour workforce can grow India’s GDP by 27 percent. But this requires active and conscious efforts from all of us, especially in manufacturing where participation remains the lowest at just 12%. For India to be the world’s manufacturing hub, we must prioritize upskilling and generating employment for our women workforce.

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