UTTAR PRADESH
UP fast emerging as new centre of mobile handset manufacturing
With Yogi Adityanath government’s initiatives, the Digital India campaign has gained momentum while there is a record investment in the information technology (IT) sector in the state.
As a result, Uttar Pradesh is emerging fast as a major centre of mobile phone manufacturing in the country with several companies like Oppo, Vivo, Samsung, Lava and Formi all set to set up their units in the state.
An official spokesman of the government said here on Saturday that the day was not far away when UP would become the biggest hub of mobile phone manufacturing with both domestic and foreign companies having their factories and billions of people talking on mobile handsets made in UP.
According to officials of these mobile phone manufacturing giants, Uttar Pradesh has made remarkable progress under the Digital India campaign in mobile phone manufacturing. Big companies have made huge investments in the state due to the investment-friendly policies of the UP government in the field of electronic manufacturing.
Senior UP minister and government spokesman Sidharth Nath Singh said that the picture was entirely different four years ago, when no one could have even imagined setting up a factory to make mobile handsets in the state.
It is worth mentioning here that in the year 2014, only six crore mobile handsets were manufactured in the country, which increased to 11 crore in the year 2015-16 and 17.5 crore in 2016-17.
Now, Vivo’s factory coming up in the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority area is expected to start producing 12 crore mobile handsets alone soon. Vivo Mobile Pvt Ltd is setting up a factory to manufacture mobile handsets with an investment of Rs 7,000 crore in Sector 24 of YEIDA. Six crore mobile sets will be made in the first phase of this factory being set up on 169 acres of land. In the second phase, the capacity of this factory will be increased in order to produce 12 crore mobile handsets every year. Vivo’s factory in YEIDA will provide employment to 60,000 people.
As for the government, it would get revenue in the form of goods and services tax (GST) from every mobile made by Vivo in its UP unit, the spokesman said.
Besides Vivo, China’s big company Oppo Mobile India Private Limited is setting up its factory in Greater Noida at the cost of Rs 2,000 crore to manufacture smartphones. Similarly, Holitech India Private Ltd is setting up a mobile phone display unit in Greater Noida itself. Land has been allotted for the mobile phone display unit to be set up with an investment of Rs 1,772 crore. Lava Electronics has established its factory in Noida and is manufacturing mobile handsets there. Samsung set up its factory for mobile phone manufacturing in Noida last year.
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NATIONAL
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