Kalpa Media House | Bengaluru |
Minister for large and medium industries MB Patil on Thursday said that the Foxconn company has plans to start manufacturing iPhone units by 2024 April at its’ proposed Devanahalli plant
and the state government would hand over the required land for the company by July 1 to facilitate this.
He stated this while the representatives of the company led by George Chu met him as part of the courtesy visit. IT/BT minister Priyanka Kharge was also present.
With this, the new government has speeded up the process of the Rs. 13,600 crore project which is expected to create 50,000 jobs.
“The identified 300 acres of land at ITIR of Devanahalli would be handed over by July 1. Along with this, the Government would ensure providing 5 MLD of water, quality power supply, road connectivity and other infrastructure facilities”, he explained.
“The company has been asked to provide the details of the skill sets it seeks in employees. Accordingly, steps will be taken to facilitate training programmes for eligible candidates to make them employable,” Patil elaborated.
The Taiwan-based global company has already paid 30% of the cost towards the land (Rs. 90 crores) to KIADB. It has set the goal to complete the project in three faces and has set a target of manufacturing 20 million units (2 crore units) annually from the plant after the completion of three phases.
Paul Liu, Tonn Liu, Simon Song, Bharath Dandi and others from Foxconn were present.
Earlier, Amardeep Singh Ahluwalia, EVP, Jubilant Foodworks, K Ullas Kamat, Chairman, FICCI Karnataka Council, Shaju Mangalam, Head, FICCI Karnataka Council, Vijaykrishnan Venkatesan, chairman, CII Karnataka council met the minister.
Dr EV Ramana Reddy, ACS, Department of IT, S. Selva Kumar, Principal Secretary, Commerce and Industries, and Gunjan Krishna, Commissioner, Department of Commerce and Industries were also present.
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