Investment of Rs 800 Crore for a Fully AIoT-Enabled Campus in Bengaluru

The campus is likely to house the second-highest number of Bosch employees in the world, said Soumitra Bhattacharya, Managing Director of Bosch Ltd and regional president of Bosch Group in India. The 75-acre campus will be the base of the group's various companies in India, including the home appliances, power tools, powertrains and automotive aftermarket divisions and could host around 10,000 software engineers by the time it is completed. It is expected to be inaugurated in June 2022, when the group completes 100 years of presence in India. "In our smart campus here in Adugodi, which has 75 acres which we are going to inaugurate in 2022, we are investing more than ₹800 crores to make it one of the smartest campuses. "This is going to be one of the largest tech centres that we have in the world and likely to be the largest outside Europe," Bhattacharya said while addressing a virtual conference. Stating that the campus will allow the group to showcase "all our digital use cases", he said, "In the heart of the city of Bengaluru, housing one of the largest Bosch campuses in the world, this will be a testimony of our living as an AIoT company." Bhattacharya said the campus, which had initially housed Bosch's first plant in India, called the'Bangalore plant', is being redeveloped into a "truly end-to-end smart campus" after shifting the manufacturing unit to a location on the way to Mysore. When asked about the likely employment in the upgraded campus, he said, "This is going to house very likely, the second-highest number of Bosch employees in the world.