Chandrasekhar to visit Apple vendor Pegatron facility for inauguration

Minister of State for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar will visit Apple vendor Pegatron's mobile manufacturing facility in Chennai on Friday for its inauguration, an official statement said on Thursday.

Taiwanese firm is the third Apple vendor to have set up a factory in India after Foxconn and Wistron.

"Taiwanese electronics major Pegatron's new mobile phone manufacturing facility, set up under Centre's popular Production Linked Incentive scheme (PLI), in an industrial park in Chengalpattu near Chennai, will be inaugurated tomorrow. The Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Shri Rajeev handrasekhar will be attending the event as a guest of honour," the statement said.

Pegatron has been running trial production of iPhone since last six to eight months.

The company has committed to invest around Rs 1,000 crore and produce mobile phones worth about Rs 1 lakh crore in India under production linked incentive scheme.

"Pegatron's India subsidiary ...