a ton and touched 10300 so the commodity price increase has been very steep and because we were coming out of the covid situation as market leaders we were very conscious not to compromise on the demand situation advt we kept on postponing the price hikes because that is the last option for us we did not want to compromise on the surge back in the demand and that is the reason why we did not take a price hike last year and expected that the commodities will soften but commodities have not softened and we had to take three price hikes this year a 14 hike in january a 16 in april and 19 very recently in september we have not passed on the full increase of the material costs to our customers largely because we have to walk that line between the bottom line and the top line and that is a very fine line at the moment so yes we keep watching the situation very carefully going forward and see there has been some softening as far as the steel price is concerned and also the precious metals but that is because the overall demand has come down because of semiconductor shortage that is why worldwide production has fallen but if we go back to a normal level of production it is quite possible that even the precious metals prices which have softened in the recent weeks will get back and then it is a very tight situation we are monitoring the situation and it is still quite possible that we will have to look carefully at our profitability once again at some time the festive season is not just for maruti but for all automakers and this time across the globe it is not going to be a washout so if that pentup demand is indeed genuine and a lot of that demand is being met by used cars what will maruti do once the situation normalisesone obvious thing is to increase production as much as possible because the good bookings and the good enquiry levels that we saw on the demand side have not really been by equivalent retails on the production side and therefore we see a large build up pending bookings in the industry industrywise normal booking is about 200000 to 250000 in the indian passenger vehicle market currently it is more than 500000 that indicates that there is good demand in the market however because of the supply issues the pending bookings have increased and of course it is reflected in the different models and that waiting period can be different for different models and for different fuel types for example for maruti suzuki cng there is a huge waiting time much higher than what it there for petrol vehicles there are variations geographically by fuel type by oem but generally speaking there is a built in waiting time one of the solutions of course is to try to increase the production