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BENGALURU: Almost all mobile phones being used in India are manufactured locally. This was announced by Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw last week during his visit to the Tata iPhone plant in Tamil Nadu’s Hosur district. He said that the mobile manufacturing industry had crossed $44 billion and that 99.2 per cent of the mobile phones used in the country were manufactured locally.
The Minister slammed the Opposition for “still thinking” that the mobile phones used in the country are imported. “They (Opposition) don’t know that 99.2 per cent of the mobiles used here are manufactured in India. There are many cell phone manufacturing units in the country,” he stated.
India has an ambitious goal to produce electronic goods worth more than $300 billion by 2025-26 and the manufacturers are being encouraged by schemes and subsidies, the Union Minister said.
India is surpassing China in the production of mobiles and marching ahead, he underlined.
“Apple increased the production of its major iPhones in India last year. Cupertino Tech is contemplating raising the production in India to $40 billion in four to five years,” Vaishnaw added.
“In the last nine and half years, we have reached the stage of exporting electronic products. There is considerable progress in the semiconductor sector. Recently, Google announced that it will start producing Pixel smartphones here. This would prove to be a boost for India’s ambition to emerge as a global manufacturing hub,” he elaborated.
