Est. 2021 · Hyderabad, India Mega Industrial Park
A Flagship Initiative · Andhra Pradesh

Building South India's
next industrial
destination.

Challa Group is a three-decade infrastructure and asset-creation organisation delivering across mining, industrial park development, real estate, seaport infrastructure, entertainment and information technology. Our flagship initiative, in partnership with the Government of Andhra Pradesh, is a ten-thousand-acre, seven-vertical integrated industrial platform at Donakonda.

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Rendered · Donakonda Gateway Welcome to Donakonda Industrial Park
Rendering of the Challa Group gateway at Donakonda Integrated Industrial Park
"Built for industry. Built for tomorrow."
Mega Industrial Park · Donakonda
Proposed Development by Challa Industries
§ 01
The Group

Three decades. Six disciplines.
Nine entities.

Challa Group is an infrastructure and asset-creation organisation headquartered in Hyderabad. Below, the six disciplines we operate across, and the layered Special Purpose Vehicle structure through which every major project is delivered.

Discipline 01
Industrial Parks & Master Platforms

Greenfield industrial ecosystems with integrated utilities, township and multi-vertical zoning. Donakonda is our flagship expression.

Discipline 02
Mining & Mineral Development

Resource development across Indian mineral belts, with a track record of clean regulatory delivery and community engagement.

Discipline 03
Seaport Infrastructure

Coastal infrastructure interests supporting the movement of container and dry-bulk traffic across South Indian ports.

Discipline 04
Real Estate & Urban Development

Residential, commercial and mixed-use development with an emphasis on planned townships and civic amenities.

Discipline 05
Entertainment & Media

Interests in content, media infrastructure and destination entertainment aligned with India's rising leisure economy.

Discipline 06
Information Technology

Software and digital services capability supporting internal operations and third-party enterprise clients.

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Group Entities & SPVs

Nine entities. One clean structure.

The Group operates through independent Special Purpose Vehicles for each of its major projects. Every SPV is ring-fenced, delivering a clean legal interface for lenders, State counterparties and joint-venture partners on a project-by-project basis.

Group Holding · Master Promoter

Challa Industries Pvt. Ltd.

The master proposing entity. Holds platform-level obligations to the Government of Andhra Pradesh and to Radiant Global Fund. Consolidates platform-level compliance.

Master SPV · Ref 001 Hyderabad
Platform Master SPV

Donakonda Industrial Park Pvt. Ltd.

The platform SPV for the proposed 10,000-acre Donakonda initiative. Develops and operates Foundation Phase enabling infrastructure. Parent of the seven vertical SPVs.

Platform SPV · Ref 002 Donakonda · Prakasam
Vertical SPV · V.01

MSME Ecosystem SPV

Vertical-level SPV holding V.01 anchor tenant contracts and MSME cluster operations. 500 acres. 19,000 direct jobs at maturity.

V.01 · Milestone M1 Donakonda
Vertical SPV · V.02

Health City & Pharma SPV

Vertical-level SPV holding hospital, medical college and pharma cluster contracts. 700 acres. 13,500 direct jobs at maturity.

V.02 · Milestone M2 Donakonda
Vertical SPV · V.03

Textile Park SPV

Vertical-level SPV holding spinning, weaving, processing and garmenting cluster contracts. 950 acres. 18,000 direct jobs at maturity.

V.03 · Milestone M3 Donakonda
Vertical SPV · V.04

Electronics Manufacturing SPV

Vertical-level SPV holding PCB, semiconductor ATMP, IoT and defence electronics contracts. 1,000 acres. 23,000 direct jobs at maturity.

V.04 · Milestone M4 Donakonda
Vertical SPV · V.05

Automotive & Engineering SPV

Vertical-level SPV holding EV OEM, gigafactory, Tier-1 supplier and homologation contracts. 1,250 acres. 24,000 direct jobs at maturity.

V.05 · Milestone M5 Donakonda
Vertical SPV · V.06

Warehousing & Logistics SPV

Vertical-level SPV holding warehouse, cold chain, ICD and truck terminal contracts. 1,400 acres. 12,000 direct jobs at maturity.

V.06 · Milestone M6 Donakonda
Vertical SPV · V.07

Agro & Food Processing SPV

Vertical-level SPV holding PMKSY Mega Food Park, dairy, IQF and FPO integration contracts. 1,200 acres. 17,000 direct jobs at maturity.

V.07 · Milestone M7 Donakonda

Challa Group was founded on a straightforward premise: infrastructure at scale requires patience, discipline, and the willingness to prepare for a decade before building for one. Site aggregation for our flagship Donakonda platform began in 2007 and continues to this day. That patience is the operating culture of the Group.

The Group works closely with State governments, financial partners and anchor tenants under formal Memoranda of Understanding, and structures each project such that upside is shared and downside is contained. Our operating model rewards independent verification at every stage — third-party audit, escrow-linked disbursement, and joint-committee oversight are default features of the way we work.

What we take on, we finish. What we start, we start with the end already sketched.

Chairman & Founder
Mr. Challa Prasad
Committed to Excellence, since 1996
1976
Born at Vinukonda, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh.
1996
Begins as a labour contractor across North Indian industrial belts.
1996 – 2006
Project delivery partner to L&T, Gammon India, ESSAR, Reliance, IVRCL, ERA Construction and JMC across Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka and North India.
2007
Site aggregation and community groundwork commence at Donakonda, Prakasam District.
2026
Proposal advanced to the Government of Andhra Pradesh under the seven-milestone allotment framework.
§ 02
Flagship Initiative

Donakonda Integrated
Industrial Park.

A single-site, multi-vertical, milestone-verified industrial platform in Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh. Ten thousand contiguous acres. Seven strategic verticals. One integrated ecosystem, released against independently verified progress.

The initiative at a glance
Flagship Industrial Park Asset
10,000
Acres of contiguous land at Donakonda mandal, Prakasam District
7
Industrial verticals sequenced across seven verified milestones
₹17,500Cr
Total ecosystem capital: promoter capex plus anchor-induced investment
126,500
Direct jobs at maturity, with a further 380 – 500 thousand indirect
Donakonda is a first-mover industrial location in a district that presently hosts no comparable industrial cluster. The site combines existing government-owned airstrip alignment, adjacency to the Guntur to Guntakal broad-gauge railway, three secured water sources delivering more than 100 MLD of assured supply, a dedicated 220 kV substation route, and multi-modal port access to Krishnapatnam and Ramayapatnam. It sits within the influence zone of the Chennai to Bengaluru Industrial Corridor. Each vertical is anchored in an actively operating central or State scheme — PLI Electronics, PLI Auto, PLI 2.0 Bulk Drugs, PLI Textiles, PLI Food Processing, PMKSY, PM MITRA, Gati Shakti, Semicon India, and AP Industrial Policy 4.0.
View the seven verticals → How the framework protects the State
§ 03
Seven Verticals

Seven verticals.
Seven milestones.

Each vertical corresponds to an independently verified milestone. Land, capital and progress advance in verified lock-step. Each box below is a self-contained trigger — no land is released until the preceding milestone completes.

V.01 M1

MSME Ecosystem & Innovation Cluster

250+ plug-and-play sheds, Common Facility Centres, MSME Innovation Hub and skill development. The fastest-activation vertical.

500
Acres
19K
Direct Jobs
₹225Cr
Capex
V.02 M2

Health City, Pharma & Medical Equipment

1,200-bed quaternary hospital campus, six Centres of Excellence, medical college, USFDA-grade API, biologics and medtech.

700
Acres
13.5K
Direct Jobs
₹450Cr
Capex
V.03 M3

Textile Park

500,000+ spindle spinning-weaving cluster, processing park with CETP and ZLD, apparel hub and NIFT-linked design precinct.

950
Acres
18K
Direct Jobs
₹700Cr
Capex
V.04 M4

Electronics Manufacturing Cluster

PCB / PCBA cluster, semiconductor ATMP under SPECS, IoT and 5G assembly, defence electronics, BIS-notified testing labs.

1,000
Acres
23K
Direct Jobs
₹800Cr
Capex
V.05 M5

Automotive & Industrial Engineering

EV OEM plots, battery gigafactory, Tier-1 supplier park, 5-km ARAI-linked test track, foundry, forging and global capability centre.

1,250
Acres
24K
Direct Jobs
₹1,200Cr
Capex
V.06 M6

Warehousing & Integrated Logistics Park

Grade-A warehousing, cold chain, Inland Container Depot with rail siding, 2,500-bay truck terminal, EV charging plaza.

1,400
Acres
12K
Direct Jobs
₹600Cr
Capex
V.07 M7

Agro & Food Processing Zone

PMKSY Mega Food Park, cold storage, IQF processing, 8 lakh L/day dairy cluster, FPO integration for 80,000+ households.

1,200
Acres
17K
Direct Jobs
₹1,000Cr
Capex
F Phase 0

Foundation Phase

220 kV substation, 100 MLD water treatment, township core, green skeleton, perimeter freight ring. The enabling backbone released on Anchor MOU.

3,000
Acres
—
Direct Jobs
₹25Cr
Capex
Platform Total · at Milestone 7 verified Full seven-vertical park live.
10,000
Total Acres
126,500
Direct Jobs
₹5,000Cr
Promoter Capex
Complete

Capex figures reflect promoter direct capital. Anchor-induced capex of ₹12,500 Crore is deployed at vertical level over the ten-year horizon, taking total ecosystem investment to ~₹17,500 Cr. Direct jobs exclude ~15,000 township-based service, education and civic-services roles. Indirect and induced employment applies a 3 – 4× multiplier.

§ 04
The Framework

Land follows capital.
Not the other way around.

The seven-milestone framework directly addresses the principal institutional risk in large greenfield industrial parks: stranded land allotted without matching investment. Every acre is contractually earned — and reclaimable if performance obligations are not met.

01
Trigger

The preceding milestone completes. Capex deployed. Jobs created. Infrastructure operational.

02
Verify

Third-party audit confirms compliance. The GoAP nominee reviews on behalf of the State.

03
Release

APIIC releases the next tranche of land under the milestone-verified allotment order.

04
Deploy

Radiant Global Fund releases the matching capital tranche from escrow.

05
Build

The vertical is developed. Sub-tenants onboard. Next trigger begins.

For the Government
Zero stranded-land risk

Land remains with the State until each milestone is verifiably complete. Reclamation right is preserved throughout. The performance bond covering 5 percent of milestone capital is held in escrow at each stage.

For the Investor
Efficient staged capital

Deployment is matched to demand. Escrow-linked disbursement protects investor return and staging preserves optionality across the ten-year horizon.

For the Promoter
Focused execution

One vertical at a time. Proven demand before scaling. The framework rewards execution discipline over speed of announcement.

§ 05
Impact at Full Maturity

What Andhra Pradesh gains.
What Prakasam becomes.

These are the load-bearing impact figures that reconcile across the Detailed Project Report. They reflect ten years of milestone-verified build-out — not a peak-year snapshot, but the platform at full operating maturity.

01 · Employment
126,500
Direct jobs across seven industrial verticals, plus another 380 – 500 thousand indirect and induced roles.
Direct Jobs
02 · Capital
₹17,500Cr
Combined promoter capex and anchor-induced investment across the platform's ten-year horizon.
Ecosystem Investment
03 · State Revenue
₹1,200Cr
Annual State tax revenue at maturity — GST, stamp duty and property tax combined.
Annual Tax Yield
04 · Exports
$3 – 4Bn
Export contribution from pharma, electronics, textiles, engineering and processed foods at scale.
Export Contribution
05 · Farmer Impact
80,000HH
Farmer households integrated through cold chain, procurement channels and FPO consortiums.
Households Benefiting
06 · Multiplier
3 – 4×
Indirect and induced job multiplier — supply chain, retail, hospitality, education and services.
Employment Multiplier
07 · Regional Uplift
5Districts
Prakasam and adjacent districts pulled up socio-economically through the platform's regional pull.
Districts Transformed
08 · Ecosystem
₹60,000Cr
Broader ecosystem capital footprint at full maturity — downstream, services and expansion.
Ecosystem Footprint
§ 06
Associates & Supported Companies

Associated and supported
enterprises.

Challa Group associates and supports the following companies in the proposed Mega Industrial Park at Donakonda. Each is aligned to a specific vertical of the platform, and each brings independent operating experience to the ecosystem.

CGA / 001 Aligned · V.02 · M2
Hanuma Ayur Care logo

Hanuma Ayur Care Multispeciality Hospital

Research · Pharmacy · Hospitals · Established 1989

A multispeciality healthcare enterprise combining integrated Ayurvedic and allopathic medicine with in-house research, pharmacy operations and hospital delivery. Aligned to the Health City vertical of the Donakonda Integrated Industrial Park, contributing to the quaternary hospital campus and Centres of Excellence.

Vertical Alignment V.02 Health City & Pharma
CGA / 002 Aligned · V.05 · M5
Simplex Castings logo

Simplex Castings

Iron & steel castings · Foundry engineering

A long-established Indian foundry and castings enterprise serving railways, defence, automotive and heavy engineering sectors. Aligned to the Automotive & Industrial Engineering vertical of the Donakonda Integrated Industrial Park, contributing foundry capability, Tier-1 supplier depth and heavy-engineering activity.

Vertical Alignment V.05 Automotive & Engineering

Association reflects operational alignment and expressed intent to participate in the Donakonda platform. Formal onboarding of each associate is executed at the corresponding vertical milestone under the milestone-verified framework. This register is updated as further associates are formalised.

§ 07
You have Arrived

Let us build South India's
next industrial destination — together.

The scale of what Andhra Pradesh can become in the next decade is not constrained by ambition — it is constrained only by the pace at which we align. Three engagement tracks are open now.

Chairman's Office
Mr. Challa Prasad
Chairman & Founder, Challa Group

Challa Industries (P) Limited

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

chairman@challagroupindia.com

Project Office
Project Management Office
Donakonda Integrated Industrial Park

Donakonda Mandal, Prakasam District

Andhra Pradesh 523305

pmo@challagroupindia.com

General & Media
Corporate Communications
Group Communications Desk

Contact for interviews, briefings and material

contact@challagroupiindia.com