Biggest iPhone Manufacturing Unit In India To Come Up Near Bengaluru, To Employ 60,000 People: Ashwini Vaishnaw

The biggest unit to manufacture Apple iPhone in India is coming up near Hosur in Bengaluru, which will employ around 60,000 people, Telecom and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday. 

While speaking at the Janjatiya Gaurav Divas ceremony, Vaishnaw said that six thousand tribal women residing 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. 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 gets iPhones manufactured by electronics giants - Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron in India.

It should be noted that Apple is looking to diversify manufacturing of some of its iPhone, which are mostly made in China, and India is going to play an important part in the Cupertino-based tech giant's plans.

Recently, Foxconn's plant in China's Zhengzhou, which is the largest manufacturing facility for iPhones in the world, was put under lockdown as China is sticking to its strict zero Covid policy. 

Foxconn had started manufacturing the iPhone 14 in India in September, just weeks after the launch of Apple's latest smartphone.

Apple's contract manufacturers in India - Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron - are on an expansion phase, adding more assembly lines to their facilities to offset a slowdown in iPhone manufacturing in China ahead of the upcoming Chinese new year.

(With inputs from PTI)