As of October 2026, the largest construction equipment fleet in India that any company puts a number on belongs to Dilip Buildcon, the road and infrastructure contractor from Bhopal, which reported more than 10,394 pieces of equipment in its Q1 FY27 investor presentation in August 2026. Coal India’s seven coal-producing subsidiaries ran 4,689 major mining machines on 1 April 2023, and the biggest published crane fleet for hire is Sanghvi Movers’ 370 cranes as on 31 March 2025. Every figure on this page is quoted from the company’s own filing or from an official government document, with the date it was true.

Those three names cover the three kinds of big fleet in India: the contractor that builds with its own machines, the mine that digs with its own machines, and the rental company whose machines are the product. How the fleets themselves are put together, who signs off a purchase, and how owning compares with leasing and hiring is set out in the guide to fleet owners in India. This page is the current scoreboard.

How this list was built

A company appears here when its own annual report, investor presentation, offer document or website describes the machines it owns, or when an official government document does. Within each group the order is alphabetical and not a ranking, because the companies do not count the same things. One counts every tipper and generator on its books, another counts only cranes, a third publishes the rupee value of its plant and machinery and no machine count at all. Where a company publishes no fleet size, it is still listed, with what it does disclose.

Goods-truck fleets are left out. A company that owns a thousand trucks is a logistics business, not an equipment fleet. Tippers and dumpers do appear below, because those work on the site and in the mine and the companies count them as machines.

Which company has the largest construction equipment fleet in India?

Road and infrastructure contractors own the largest published fleets in the country, for a simple reason: a highway package keeps the same machines standing on the same stretch for two or three years, and over that period buying beats paying a monthly hire rate.

Company Main work Fleet, as the company publishes it
Afcons Infrastructure Metros, tunnels, marine works, bridges 142 cranes, 20 tunnel boring machines, 24 jumbo drills, 13 marine barges and 9 jack-ups, together worth ₹4,282.55 crore, strategic equipment only (March 2026, Q4 FY26 investor presentation)
Dilip Buildcon Roads, bridges, tunnels, metros, dams, mining More than 10,394 equipment (Q1 FY27 investor presentation, August 2026)
G R Infraprojects Highways and roads More than 7,000 equipment and machinery (Annual Report 2025-26)
H.G. Infra Engineering Roads, railways, solar and power projects 2,868 fleet equipment (Q1 FY27 investor presentation, August 2026)
J. Kumar Infraprojects Metros, road tunnels, flyovers Fleet size not published; says it owns 8 tunnel boring machines (investor presentation, October 2023)
KNR Constructions Highways, irrigation Itemised list of 29 machine types including 402 excavators; plant and machinery gross block ₹1,448.2 crore as on 30 September 2024 (November 2024 investor presentation)
NCC Buildings, roads, water, railways, mining Fleet size not published; property, plant and equipment rose from ₹2,919.46 crore to ₹3,762.10 crore in 2025-26, mainly for tunnel boring machines and new projects (Annual Report 2025-26)
PNC Infratech Highways, bridges, airport runways Fleet size not published; “construction machines and assets valued at ₹1,341 Cr” (Annual Report 2023-24)

Dilip Buildcon has stayed close to 10,000 machines for years rather than growing the count. Its own stock-exchange filings show 11,381 machines in December 2018, 10,571 in February 2024 and 10,394 in August 2026. G R Infraprojects moved the other way in its own words, from “8000+ machines” in an April 2024 presentation to “7,000+” in its 2025-26 annual report. A fleet that size is sold down and rebuilt constantly, so the headline number says less about growth than the mix inside it does.

If you sell or hire machines to this group, the lines to aim at are the ones every road package needs: excavators, compactors and road rollers, motor graders and wheel loaders.

What a big road contractor’s fleet actually contains

Only one listed contractor publishes a full machine-by-machine list, and it is worth reading closely. KNR Constructions, a Hyderabad highway builder, itemised its in-house equipment by type in its November 2024 investor presentation, as on 30 September 2024: 1,273 tippers and tankers, 402 excavators, 299 generators, 203 concrete mixers and pumps, 137 compactors, 105 drillers and breakers, 101 loaders, 100 cranes, 71 graders and 24 dozers, with 54 batching plants, 53 pavers, 32 crushers and 14 hot mix plants behind them.

Tippers outnumber excavators by more than three to one. That ratio is the shape of every earthwork fleet: the excavator sets the cost of the job and the tippers set its speed, so enough tippers are put with each machine to stop it standing idle with the engine running. The 137 compactors and 71 graders are the finishing crew, and the batching plants, crushers and hot mix plants are the reason a highway contractor is as much a small factory as a machine owner.

The same list is a map of what big fleets hire rather than own. Specialist and short-duration machines are missing from it, which is where an outside owner gets in. Machines offered on hire are listed under equipment on rent.

Which mining companies run the biggest machine fleets?

Coal India runs the biggest published mining fleet in the country. Its 2022-23 integrated annual report counts 4,689 major HEMM, or heavy earth moving machinery, across its seven coal-producing subsidiaries as on 1 April 2023: 2,514 dumpers, 937 dozers, 625 shovels, 586 drills and 27 draglines. Northern Coalfields held the largest share at 924 machines, followed by South Eastern Coalfields at 829 and Central Coalfields at 722.

Two more recent facts sit beside that count. The Ministry of Coal’s 2025-26 annual report counts the very large machines as on 30 November 2025: eight shovels of 42 cubic metres working with 240-tonne rear dumpers at the Gevra, Dipka and Kusmunda mines, 26 shovels of 20 cubic metres, 72 dumpers of 240 tonnes and 163 dumpers of 190 to 200 tonnes. The same document says 47 surface miners were owned by Coal India on that date, with more running through hiring, and that surface miners cut 57.85% of its coal in 2024-25, up from 54.84% the year before.

The other number worth knowing is how hard those machines work. Against Coal India’s own norms in 2022-23, its dumpers were utilised 65% and its dozers 48%, while availability for both ran above 100% of norm. The machines were fit to work far more often than they were put to work, which is the single most useful thing a hire vendor can know about a mining fleet.

Contract miners are the other half of this group and they publish far less. BGR Mining says it bought its equipment from Volvo, CAT, Komatsu, Sany, Hitachi, Wirtgen, Liebherr and Scania, without a count. Sainik Mining and Allied Services of Gurugram describes a large fleet of heavy earth moving machinery maintained in-house through its own workshops, and about 17% of Coal India’s production. Thriveni Earthmovers of Salem runs a rebuild centre it says has refurbished more than 1,000 HEMM, including 300-tonne trucks and 40 cubic metre shovels, though that counts machines rebuilt and not machines owned. Dilip Buildcon and NCC, from the contractor table above, also work as mine developers, so part of their fleets sits inside mines. Live models, tenders and news for this sector are collected on the mining equipment page.

Who hires out cranes and heavy machines in India?

Four listed rental companies publish their fleets. Their customers are the contractors and mines above, who would rather hire a 500-tonne crane for one lift than own it.

Company What it hires out Fleet, as the company publishes it
Aggcon Equipments International Crawler cranes, excavators, graders, piling rigs, road machines 337 machines as on 31 March 2025, up from 166 two years earlier (draft offer document, July 2025)
Sanghvi Movers Telescopic and crawler cranes of 40 to 1,600 tonnes 370 cranes as on 31 March 2025, 290 of them above 100 tonnes (Annual Report 2024-25)
Tara Chand InfraLogistic Solutions Large and pick-and-carry cranes, trailers, aerial platforms 403 machines, largest crane 900 tonnes (investor presentation, January 2026)
Vision Infra Equipment Solutions Road and earthmoving machines, cranes, mobile crushers 545 machines (FY26 investor presentation, May 2026)

Aggcon’s offer document breaks its 337 machines down, and the mix reads much like a road contractor’s: 83 crawler cranes, 42 crawler excavators, 39 piling rigs, 29 motor graders, 21 telehandlers, 18 tandem compactors, 16 self-loading concrete mixers, 14 soil compactors, 12 wheel loaders and 8 bulldozers, with pavers, boom lifts and truck cranes behind them. Sanghvi Movers’ 2024-25 report shows how a rental fleet is kept young: it sold 30 old cranes and bought 46 new ones in that one year.

What this picture means for a machine owner

Read the numbers from the hire side and the same message comes back from all three groups. The fleets are large, their published counts are flat or falling, and they are still short of machines in the months that matter. Coal India owned 47 surface miners and hired more. Dilip Buildcon has run close to 10,000 machines for eight years without adding to the count. A road contractor’s own list is heavy on tippers, excavators and rollers and thin on everything specialised.

For an owner with one to ten machines, that is the opening. Public sector mines and project owners hire through open tender, and live notices are collected on the tenders and opportunities page. Private contractors hire through the plant and machinery department at each project site, where you register as a vendor and agree a monthly rate. The crane class a single owner can actually enter is not the crawler crane on a metro job but the pick-and-carry hydra crane such as the Escorts Hydra 14, and on earthwork it is the 20-tonne class excavator that every one of these fleets runs by the hundred. If the work is there and the machine is not, construction equipment loans is where the money comes from.

Fleet counts on this page are quoted from each company’s own published documents or from official government reports, on the dates stated, and they change as companies buy and sell machines. Rates, schemes, specifications and prices change too, so confirm current terms with the OEM, dealer, bank or insurer before deciding.