The pace at which mobile manufacturing activity is growing in the Noida/Greater Noida area owing to the “Make in India” initiative, the region is set to produce about 30 per cent of an estimated 100 crore mobile phones the country will produce annually by 2025.
Approximately 80 mobile manufacturing factories are currently operating in this region, with an estimated total employment of 50,000 people, according to mobile industry body ICEA.
These 80 units produce mobile handsets as well as components for handsets such as chargers/adapters, battery packs, etc.
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During 2018-19, India saw the production of 29 crore units and the bulk of the production came from the Noida-Greater Noida region.
For example, South Korean tech giant Samsung, which opened its biggest mobile factory at Sector 81 last year, is set to double its mobile phones manufacturing capacity in Noida from 6.8 crore to 12 crore units a year by 2020.
Source: Economic Times
