Chola started as a Murugappa group company and grew into one of India’s most trusted non-banking finance companies (NBFCs). It is not a bank, but for buying machines that often works in your favour — the paperwork is lighter and the people who visit you actually know construction and mining work. For a small contractor in a taluka town, that difference matters more than a fancy branch in the city.
A Cholamandalam construction equipment loan is simply money Chola lends you to buy a machine. You put down a part of the cost yourself, Chola pays the rest, and you return that amount in monthly instalments (EMIs) from what the machine earns. The machine usually stands as the security, so you don’t always have to pledge land or a house. Chola funds both brand-new machines and sound second-hand ones, which helps a first-timer whose budget stretches only to a good used dumper.
What can you finance with Chola? Real working machines — excavators, backhoe loaders, concrete mixers, compactors and road rollers, motor graders, cranes, dumpers, forklifts and compressors. There is even room to refinance a machine you already own or take a top-up loan against it for working capital. If it is a genuine construction, road or mining machine, Chola can usually arrange the money for it.
Two things make Chola easy for people far from big cities. First, it runs over 1,300 branches, so there is often a walk-in office in your own district. Second, it keeps the down payment low and can give an in-principle sanction right at your site — no need to shut the work and travel for days. You keep more cash in hand for diesel, wages and repairs, and let the machine slowly pay for itself. Want to weigh other lenders first? Compare Axis Bank and Shriram Finance on our finance page, or protect the machine with Cholamandalam MS Insurance.
Loan amounts, interest rates and tenures shown here are indicative and are decided by Cholamandalam based on your profile. Please confirm the latest terms with Chola or our finance desk before you apply.