| Tata Group plans to generate 500,000 jobs in the manufacturing sector by sectors such as battery, semiconductors, electric vehicles and solar industries during the next half-decade, Chairman of Tata Sons N Chandrasekaran said here on Thursday.
The Tata Group plans to generate 500,000 manufacturing jobs over the next half-decade in sectors such as the battery, semiconductors, electric vehicles, and solar industries, Chairman N. Chandrasekaran said on Thursday.
In his annual letter to group employees, Chandrasekaran said these jobs will come in part from facilities across India – factories and projects that will produce batteries, semiconductors, electric vehicles, solar equipment and other critical hardware destined to play a central role in the economy of tomorrow.
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The Tata Advanced Systems facility in Pune hosted the Ambassador of His Majesty the King of Morocco, and the Defence Attaché of Morocco to India
“This is in addition to the many services jobs we expect to introduce across retail, tech services, airlines and hospitality, among other sectors,” he wrote.
Key highlights of 2024 for the salt-to-software conglomerate included milestone moments such as groundbreaking ceremonies for more than seven new manufacturing plants including India’s first semiconductor fab at Dholera in Gujarat and an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test facility in Assam.
Ground-breaking ceremonies and construction began at over seven new manufacturing plants in 2024, including India’s first semiconductor fab in Dholera, Gujarat and a brand new semiconductor OSAT plant in Assam.
“There is the electronics assembly plant in Narasapura, Karnataka, an automotive plant in Panapakkam, Tamil Nadu and new MRO facilities in Bengaluru, Karnataka. We also have new battery cell manufacturing factories in Sanand, Gujarat, and in Somerset, UK. We inaugurated the C295 final assembly line (FAL) in Vadodara, Gujarat, and began solar module production in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu,” he said.