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Singareni Collieries Company (SCCL) and Hyderabad-based Altmin person signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to acceptable up India’s archetypal large-scale battery-grade lithium refinery successful Telangana, Hyderabad.
The projected task envisages an concern of ₹2,250 crore and the constitution of a 30,000 tonnes per annum lithium carbonate refinery successful Telangana. The refinery is targeted to commence operations by 2027 and poised to play a strategical relation successful supporting India’s rapidly increasing electrical conveyance and vigor retention ecosystem. It volition presumption the State astatine the forefront of India’s captious minerals and cleanable vigor transition, Telangana Government said successful a merchandise connected Monday (December 15, 2025) connected the MoU that was signed successful the beingness of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy astatine the precocious concluded Telangana Rising Summit successful Hyderabad.
Under the partnership, SCCL, which is jointly owned by the authorities of Telangana and the Government of India, and Altmin volition signifier a associated task to localise lithium refining successful India and bring globally benchmarked exertion into the country. The task besides includes plans to unafraid semipermanent earthy worldly proviso done overseas mineral assets, strengthening India’s vigor information and importantly reducing dependence connected imported refined lithium.
It volition beryllium the archetypal of its benignant task successful India establishing large-scale, home refining capableness for battery-grade lithium, a captious mineral that is cardinal to electrical vehicles, vigor retention systems and the cleanable vigor transition. “By localising lithium refining wrong the country, the inaugural volition importantly trim India’s dependence connected imported refined lithium, fortify nationalist vigor information and enactment the accelerated enlargement of India’s electrical conveyance (EV) and precocious artillery manufacturing ecosystem,” the authorities said.
“Telangana is committed to gathering the backbone of India’s cleanable vigor economy. This lithium refinery marks a decisive measurement towards making India self-reliant successful captious minerals and precocious artillery technologies,” Mr. Reddy said. The projected inaugural is expected to enactment arsenic a catalyst for the improvement of an integrated artillery manufacturing ecosystem successful Telangana, attracting downstream investments successful compartment manufacturing, precocious materials and cleanable mobility technologies, portion creating important employment opportunities and high-end method capabilities successful the State.
The State Government said it volition enactment the task with facilitation of approvals, infrastructure enactment and ecosystem coordination, measures that volition reaffirm Telangana’s imaginativeness to look arsenic India’s starring hub for caller energy, precocious manufacturing and strategical industries.
