US tech giant Apple is set to diversify its supply chain away from China and increase production in India. The company plans to manufacture iPhones at a new plant in India, according to officials. Karnataka state chief minister Basavaraj S Bommai tweeted on Friday that “Apple phones will be built in the state soon…Apart from creating about 100,000 jobs, it will create a whole lot of opportunities for Karnataka”. The proposed factory will be spread over 300 acres in the state, home to India’s tech hub Bengaluru, according to Rajeev Chandrasekhar, India’s minister of state for information technology.
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Foxconn chairman Young Liu, who visited Bengaluru on Friday, has signed an agreement to set up electronics manufacturing facilities that would employ 100,000 in the neighbouring southern state of Telangana. Foxconn has since 2019 manufactured Apple handsets in India at its plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
Apple and Foxconn did not respond to AFP requests for comment. Apple’s expanding manufacturing in India is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” strategy under which he has urged foreign businesses to manufacture goods in the South Asian nation
