Battery major Amara Raja has commenced the construction of “one of India’s largest, and Telangana’s first Gigafactory ” with a groundbreaking ceremony on Saturday at Divitipalli in Mahabubnagar district, attended by state IT, industries minister KT Rama Rao.
The Amara Raja Giga Corridor aims to produce Lithium cell and battery packs with ultimate capacity of up to 16 GWh and up to 5 GWh respectively. The facility is expected to create direct employment for about 4,500 people and a similar number of indirect jobs, company officials said.
In December last year, Amara Raja had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Telangana government to set up state-of-the-art research and manufacturing facilities for lithium-ion batteries in Telangana.
