Major push to Make in India! Biggest iPhone manufacturing plant to come up near Hosur, to employ 60k workers
As per the Vishnaw, this unit will help to employ around 60,000 people. Moreover, at least 6000 tribal women who are residents near Ranchi and Hazaribagh have been trained for making iPhones.
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Hosur, November 16: In a big boost to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ' Make in India' initiative, the smartphone giant, Apple is soon going to set up its biggest iPhone manufacturing unit in a South Indian state. As per IT & Telecom Minister Ashwini VIshnaw, Apple will set up its iPhone manufacturing unit in Hosur in Tamil Nadu.
As per the Vishnaw, this unit will help to employ around 60,000 people. Moreover, at least 6000 tribal women who are residents near Ranchi and Hazaribagh have been trained for making iPhones. "Apple's iPhone is now getting made in India and it's the biggest plant in India is being set up at Hosur near Bengaluru. 60,000 people work in a single factory," Vaishnav said at the Janjatiya Gaurav Divas ceremony.
This comes as the Apple supplier Foxconn is planning to expand their works in India by at least four times by the next two years owing to China's strict zero Covid policy. It is worth mentioning here that Foxconn’s plant in China’s Zhengzhou - the largest facility for iPhones in the world - was put under Covid-19 lockdown earlier this month.
Notably, Apple has outsourced the manufacturing of iPhone enclosures to Tata Electronics, which has a plant at Hosur. Foxconn started manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India in September, just weeks after the launch of Apple's latest smartphone. Three of Apple's international partners currently assemble iPhones in India: Foxconn and Pegatron in Tamil Nadu; Wistron in Karnataka.
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