Bengaluru: India’s biggest Apple iPhone manufacturing plant will soon come up near Hosur in Bangalore. The manufacturing plant near the tech city will employ nearly 60,000 people, Telecom and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday.
The Minister was speaking at the Janjatiya Gaurav Divas ceremony. He said that as many as six thousand tribal women residing near Ranchi and Hazaribagh have been trained for making iPhones and these tribal women will be the first 6,000 of the 60,000 to be employed.
“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. The first 6,000 employees of these 60,000 employees are our tribal sisters from places nearby Ranchi and Hazaribagh. Tribal sisters have been trained to make Apple iPhone,” the minister said.
Apple has outsourced the manufacturing of iPhone enclosures to Tata Electronics, which has a plant at Hosur. The company’s iPhone models are manufactured by electronics giants Foxconn, Wistron, and Pegatron in India.
This announcement of the new manufacturing plant comes only a few days after a Reuters report said that Apple supplier Foxconn plans to increase the workforce at its iPhone factory in India by nearly four times over two years.
Foxconn was in headlines in the recent weeks, with tight virus restrictions at its Zhengzhou plant in China, the world’s largest iPhone factory.
Moreover, Taiwan-based Foxconn has plans to boost the workforce at its plant in southern India to 70,000 by adding 53,000 more workers over the next two years, according to the Reuters report which quoted people familiar with the matter.
