in a chat with et now pawan goenka ed at mm shares his thoughts on the course of action the company will take in the days to come excerpts et now what are the strategies youll be working around in the coming months pawan goenka we have launched some good products we have had a successful product launch in korea having taken care of some of the labour issues that we have had before now focus will be on financial turnaround that would require for us to continue to invest for the future we cannot stop investing and therefore our product development plan for ssangyong will remain intact we have a fairly aggressive plan over the next threefour years and will work on the various levers that we have for a financial turnaround et now what are your plans for india you are going to showcase tivoli in the auto expo when is it going to be launched in india pawan goenka we do not have a specific ssangyong product that we are looking to launch in india et now any new investment you have planned for ssangyong at least for the korean market pawan goenka no we already have 72 plus equity in ssangyong i do not think it is appropriate for a single shareholder to increase beyond 72 so we have no plans to increase our equity ssangyong will need investments going forward and we will work with the ssangyong management to secure the investment for development et now you are meeting the road transport minister this day what is on the agenda pawan goenka we will wait for the minister to tell us because he has asked for this meeting he wanted to meet the ceos of the company we will go there and understand from him what he would like to hear from us clearly he will talk about the bs vi norms timeline and we will hear him out et now what kind of roadblocks do you see in directly leapfrogging from bs iv to bs vi pawan goenka it is difficult to answer that question right now because we have been impressing upon the regulators that no one has gone from bs iv to bs vi directly up to now and therefore we do not know what to expect until recently the decision was to go from bs iv to bs v to bs vi it was only last week that the announcement was made that we are going to skip bs v and go to bs vi we are still evaluating our technical options we are talking to the consultants in europe to see what we need to do right now i cannot say with any certainty on how long it will take to make bs vi since it is regulation we will do everything we can to be ready with bs vi in that timeframe et now how big is the problem of meeting the bis certified steel for auto sector pawan