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In 2025, Karnataka has attracted concern of ₹10.27 lakh crore done its biannual investment exposition, Global Investors’ Meet (GIM), held successful February.
M.B. Patil, Minister for Large and Medium Industries, said that implicit 60% of these investments person been realised successful the 2025 calendar year, portion 2026 and 2027 would witnesser a flurry of activities arsenic these projects would statesman to instrumentality carnal signifier connected the crushed crossed the State.
‘Beyond Bengaluru’
According to him, implicit 70% of these investments would spell to “Beyond Bangalore” with northbound Karnataka capturing immoderate 45%. The inducement structure, nether the caller Karnataka Industrial Policy, promoted investments Beyond Bengaluru by offering superior subsidies of up to 30% and enhanced PLI (production linked incentive) support successful these regions, Mr. Patil said.
Mr. Patil said, implicit and supra GIM commitments, an further concern of ₹30,000 crore came from electronics, aerospace, and manufacturing spaces.
These investments were led by Vayu Assets (for HDI PCB manufacturing), ASM Technologies (ESDM manufacturing and precision engineering), Silfex India Manufacturing, a Lam Research subsidiary (Capital instrumentality for semiconductor manufacturing for Auto/EV), River (2W EV manufacturing facility), and Volvo (expansion of motortruck and autobus accumulation facility). In the aerospace and defence sector, IndiGo announced concern to set up its 2nd MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) equipped to grip some narrow-body and wide-body aircraft, and different industries including Balaji Wafers to unfastened nutrient processing and snacks plants.
However, helium said, MoU conversion advancement was inactive nether way, adding, with 46% of GIM commitments converted and single-window applications filed. The manufacturing assemblage has been showing beardown traction, with conversion levels astatine astir 60%, the Minister said.
“Each capitalist has already been assigned a nodal serviceman to handhold them passim the exertion process,” helium said. A caller gathering chaired by the Chief Minister reviewed support processes and directed departments to shorten timelines, the Minister said.
FDI inflows
In summation to GIM investments, the overseas nonstop concern (FDI) travel to Karnataka stood astatine $6.63 billion, which is ₹50,000 crore. “Over the years, Karnataka has consistently featured arsenic 1 of the apical States successful India for FDI,” said the Minister.
Mr. Patil and his squad visited Japan and Korea doubly and received investments of ₹6,500 crore and different ₹5,000 crore, during the calendar twelvemonth 2025. Mr. Patil led concern exploratory delegations to astatine slightest 10 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Japan, Korea, Germany, Netherlands and conducted astatine slightest 30 meetings with imaginable investors from divers manufacture domains.
On concern outlook for 2026, the Minister said the State has a beardown pb pipeline of implicit ₹1 lakh crore and cardinal sectors that would pump successful these investments include, Electronics & Semiconductors (₹50,000 crore), Auto & EV Manufacturing (₹20,000 crore), Aerospace & Defence (₹10,000 crore), core Manufacturing (₹10,000 crore) and others (₹25,000 crore).
The State has an ambitious extremity to pull ₹7.5 lakh crore successful investments and make 20 lakh jobs by 2030 nether the Karnataka Industrial Policy 2025–30.
In the calendar twelvemonth 2026, a ministerial delegation volition beryllium visiting Germany (aerospace) and the U.K. (for different industries) again. In addition, the State would besides person a beardown beingness astatine the World Economic Forum (WEF) scheduled to instrumentality spot betwixt January 19 and 23, 2026, astatine Davos, Switzerland.
Intent and action
Industry observers said that the cardinal happening is to guarantee that the intent is converted into action. Harish Bijoor, laminitis of Harish Bijoor Consults Inc., said, “The eventual extremity is to construe intent into action. We request to way this process with care. Plan, instrumentality and evaluate.”
Murthy B.S., CEO, Leadership Capital, a CXO hiring steadfast and a radical adept said, “Today, investments spell wherever endowment goes. Across the full sunrise sectors of tech, cleanable vigor and EV ecosystem, Karnataka is the wide leader.” The investments successful 2025 would make thousands of caller jobs successful the State successful adjacent 2 years and much jobs successful the years aft that, Mr. Murhty estimated.
