PM Modi Meets Rolls-Royce CEO Tufan Erginbilgic, Discusses Scaling Up India Operations

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Rolls-Royce CEO Tufan Erginbilgic, with both sides signalling an intent to deepen the British engineering major’s footprint in India, including expanded engineering, manufacturing and innovation partnerships.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), PM Modi said, “It was wonderful meeting Mr. Tufan Erginbilgic, CEO of Rolls-Royce earlier today. We welcome Rolls-Royce’s enthusiasm towards scaling up its activities in India and partnering with our innovative and dynamic youth.”

Rolls-Royce India also shared a photograph from the meeting, saying Erginbilgic discussed how the company is scaling up to support India’s long-term development goals.

“Our CEO Tufan Erginbilgic met Hon’ble PM Shri @narendramodi today to discuss

how Rolls-Royce is scaling up to be a part of Viksit Bharat, including expanding its GCC to be the largest globally, co-creating complex manufacturing and building high-value engineering capabilities,” the company said.

It was wonderful meeting Mr. Tufan Erginbilgic, CEO of Rolls-Royce earlier today.

We welcome Rolls-Royce’s enthusiasm towards scaling up its activities in India and partnering with our innovative and dynamic youth. https://t.co/ZWj3EcQR7c

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 11, 2026

The meeting comes against the backdrop of Erginbilgic’s earlier remarks in October 2025, when he said Rolls-Royce has “deep ambitions” to develop India as a home market. Speaking during a visit to Mumbai as part of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s delegation, the Rolls-Royce CEO had underlined India’s importance across air, land and sea domains.

“We have deep ambitions to develop India as a home for Rolls-Royce, building on our strong and successful partnership,” Erginbilgic had said at the time. He added that the company’s technologies across civil aviation, defence and energy position it to help build in-country capabilities and support India’s push towards a Viksit Bharat.

Rolls-Royce has said it aims to play a key role in India’s Atmanirbhar Bharat journey by expanding local partnerships, investing in talent development and increasing supply chain sourcing from India. The company recently inaugurated its expanded Global Capability and Innovation Centre in India, which it has described as being positioned to become its largest capability hub globally, supporting civil aerospace, defence and power systems businesses.