iPhone maker Foxconn to double its workforce in the country.

Delhi: Apple’s biggest contract manufacturer Foxconn aims to double its workforce and investment in India by next year. The Taiwanese company’s India representative V Lee announced the same in a LinkedIn post. In the post Lee also wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of his 73rd birthday. Foxconn is one of the makers of the iPhone and the world’s largest contract manufacturer.

According to a report in Bloomberg, Foxconn’s investment plans include a 300-acre site close to the airport in Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka. That plant is likely to assemble iPhones and is expected to create about 100,000 jobs. Foxconn recently confirmed that the company is evaluating several states, including Tamil Nadu, for its EV ambitions. “In our last earnings call, chairman Liu had said the company will expand its diversified strategy including in the states of Karnataka and Telangana aside from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu,” Lee had told ET recently. He said that our key components in India will first and foremost, be to do with consumer electronics. However, next year, there will also be EV key components in India, he added.

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