Telangana CM pitches Hyderabad as ideal location for Hyundai’s car manufacturing facility

A delegation of Hyundai Motors India Engineering (HMIE), led by managing director Changyeon Cho, called on Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy in Hyderabad on Friday (October 16, 2026) | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has pitched Hyderabad as an ideal location for Hyundai’s car manufacturing facility and assured that the government is ready to provide all possible support to encourage manufacturing in the State.. The Chief Minister was interacting with a delegation of Hyundai Motors India Engineering (HMIE), led by managing director Changyeon Cho, which called on him on Friday (October 16, 2026).Hyundai’s R&D facility at NIMZ ZaheerabadMr. Reddy assured the Hyundai Motors India leadership of all possible support for expediting works for the HMIE integrated Global R&D facility at National Investment and Manufacturing Zones (NIMZ) in Zaheerabad. The facility, involving a massive investment of ₹8,528 crore and total employment commitment of 4,276 jobs, is set for phased development across 678 acres.The team apprised the Chief Minister about the progress of the project claiming that it would be ready for groundbreaking in the next few months. The HMIE’s presence in Hyderabad dated back to 20 years with the Hitec City facility serving as a major R&D center supporting advanced vehicle engineering. Expanding on Hyundai India’s engineering capacities in Hyderabad, the Zaheerabad R&D and mega test centre would be key to testing, validating and improving engineering process.The high level delegation led by the Chief Minister called on officials from Hyundai Motors during the World Economic Forum meeting in 2024 as part of efforts to attract investments. Subsequently, the Cabinet sub-committee on industrial and investment promotion had approved Hyundai’s ambitious proposal to establish the R&D Centre in June last year.Mr. Reddy said Telangana was an ideal place to establish car manufacturing with dedicated mobility clusters, strong transport infrastructure across road, air, rail and future plans to have high-speed connectivity with ports. The State was set for rapid industrial expansion under spatial frameworks like the Peri-Urban Region Economy (PURE) for manufacturing.Explaining about the government’s vision to build Bharat Future City, a world class satellite city, the Chief Minister extended an invitation to the Hyundai leadership for the Invest Telangana Global Summit 2026.Mr. Changyeon Cho said Hyundai’s vision to further strengthen Hyderabad as its global tech and advanced engineering tech complemented the Telangana Rising 2047 vision. “We will continue the Telangana growth story,” he added. Published - October 16, 2026 03:42 pm IST