Mir Laik Ali was an engineer, industrialist, and public figure in pre-integration Hyderabad State who established the structural groundwork for cooperative sugar processing and rural industrial credit in the Deccan region.
- 1903 – 1971
- Degree in Civil Engineering: Osmania University, Hyderabad; higher technical studies in the United Kingdom.
- Place of Origin: Born in Hyderabad, Telangana.
- Key Organizer and Chairman of the Nizamabad Cooperative Sugar Factory (Nizam Sugar Factory)
- Board Director of early industrial and agricultural credit unions in the Hyderabad State
- Prime Minister of Hyderabad State (1947–1948)
- Deccan Cooperative Agro-Industry: Built the Nizam Sugar Factory in Bodhan (Nizamabad district) on a cooperative joint-venture framework, creating one of the largest sugar manufacturing operations in South Asia at the time.
- Irrigation-Linked Cooperatives: Integrated cooperative sugarcane farming with the Ayacut development of the Nizamsagar dam project, pioneering organized cane delivery networks for smallholders across Telangana.
- Technical reports on industrial planning, sugar manufacturing logistics, and rural electrification in the Deccan plateau.
- Recognized in regional industrial histories as a pioneer of large-scale agro-processing infrastructure in Telangana.