It was in the month of March 2020, that India went into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although everyone thought that it would last only a month or two at most, it is safe to say that everyone was wrong. Just like every other industry, the automobile industry started taking a hit in March. The sales figures for March 2020 show that a mere 1,40,143 cars were sold. But this was just the beginning. What followed next was something unprecedented. No car was sold in April 2020. May 2020 saw 36,576 cars being sold.
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It must be noted here, that it was not just the automobile industry. The entire country was engulfed by the pandemic. So, there was clearly a bigger task at hand.
Well, the lockdown eased up, life started getting back to its normal pace, despite the spread of the virus. Slowly but surely, the automobile industry started getting back on its feet. June 2020 saw an appreciable growth in the…