Overview
- Eveready’s greenfield unit in Samba, inaugurated Wednesday by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, was built with a stated investment of Rs 200 crore.
- The company says the facility can produce about 360 million alkaline batteries a year at peak with 456 million installed capacity and expects around 500 direct and indirect jobs at full scale.
- Executives framed the Jammu plant as support for Aatmanirbhar Bharat, saying expanded domestic output will serve rising demand for high‑performance power cells.
- Pointing to the New Industrial Policy launched in 2021, Sinha said J&K drew Rs 5,824 crore in investment in FY2025–26 and saw startups grow from 69 in 2020 to 1,305 in FY2025–26.
- Officials said preliminary work is halfway done on 312 additional units worth Rs 7,864 crore with several large projects slated to begin production in FY2026–27.