PM Modi to unveil Bosch India's largest campus outside Europe in Bengaluru

The company's operations in India began in 1922 from Kolkata.

While the Prime Minister, who returned from Germany this week, would open the sprawling campus virtually, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Somappa Bommai is expected to grace the inauguration physically in presence of Managing Director at Bosch Saumitra Bhattacharya and Filiz Albrecht, the member of company's board management, sources said on Wednesday.

Bosch India's Adugodi campus is considered to be the largest outside Europe on a 75 acre land where some Rs 800 crore was being invested by the company to make the smartest campus in the globe.

Additionally, Bosch India is the largest development centre outside Germany for end to end engineering and technology solutions.

In India, Bosch set up its first sales agency in 1922 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and started its manufacturing operation at Bangalore in 1952 (now Bengaluru) and since then the German company has grown over the years to include 18 manufacturing sites and seven development and application centers across India.

The state of the art campus, expected to house some 10,000 engineers and technocrats, could be the second highest in the number of its employees in the globe to showcase its R&D capabilities in both automotive and non-automotive products and services.