Made in India iPhones: Biggest iPhone manufacturing plant coming up near Bengaluru; will employee 60,000

 New Delhi: In a major boost to Make in India, the production of Apple iPhones in India will likely go up as the country is set to get its biggest manufacturing unit near Bengaluru. Telecom and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday announced that India’s biggest Apple iPhone manufacturing unit will be set up in Hosur, Tamil Nadu.

The unit will also provide employment to 60,000 people and. "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," Vaishnaw said at the Janjatiya Gaurav Divas ceremony.

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, he added.

Apple has outsourced the manufacturing of iPhone enclosures to Tata Electronics, which has a plant at Hosur. Apple iPhones are made by electronics giants - Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron - in India.