Hostels for 60,000 workers are being built in Tamil Nadu s Sriperumbudur as Bharat FIH and other contract manufacturers, such as Foxconn International s India unit, Pegatron, and Tata Electronics, aim to expand iPhone manufacturing in India. The rise in domestic mobile phones and electronics production in India has been fueled by the PLI scheme, resulting in $15 billion worth of exports from April to October 2023. However, the contract labor regime in India has faced worker-led disruptions and concerns of exploitation.
Foxconn is making an investment of Rs 8,500 crore for the manufacturing unit, which is expected to generate over one lakh employment opportunities within the state in the next ten years.