摘要：In the era of liberalization and globalization the Indian automobile industry has assumed a special position in the industrial landscape of India. It has a wellestablished name globally being the second largest two wheeler market in the world, fourth largest commercial vehicle market in the world, and eleventh largest passenger car market in the world and expected to become the third largest automobile market in the world only behind USA and China. The Indian automobile industry bagged the position of being the ninth largest in the world moreover it has been aptly described as the sunrise sector of the economy as this sector has witnessed tremendous growth.The review of literature shows that the liberal industrial policy has encouraged the structural changes in the Automobile industry, resulting into increased competitiveness, with strong backward and forward linkages thereby propelling the growth of this sector .Keeping this in view ,an attempt has been made in the present study to investigate the structure of the automobile industry during pre-reform period and after post-reform period and to analyze the structural changes in this industry. The present study is mainly descriptive in nature based on secondary sources such as reports, books, journals and articles etc.With the liberalization and globalization, the Indian automobile industry has demonstrated sustained growth as a result of increase in competitiveness and relaxed restrictions. This sector is now characterized by the frequent introduction of new models where the consumers being the primary beneficiaries are reaping advantages of multiple choices, better technology and relatively low prices. With the announcement of Auto policy 2002 the automobile industry has got further boost to become vivacious and globally competitive. The measures like low entry barriers, investment incentives by the government has made Auto-mobile industry more competitive at international front.
