Pegatron plans to add a second facility near the southern city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu state, just six months after opening the first with an investment of $150 million.
For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling with worms were problems to be endured for the paycheck.
Earlier this month, agitations erupted after more than 250 women who work at the Foxconn plant and live in one of the dormitories had to be treated for food poisoning.