Uttar Pradesh poised to become a mobile manufacturing hub soon

Uttar Pradesh is emerging fast as a major centre of mobile phone manufacturing in India with several companies like Oppo, Vivo, Samsung, Lava and Formi setting up their units. According to reports quoting the government spokesman, officials of these mobile phone manufacturing giants have made huge investments in the state due to the investment-friendly policies of the Yogi Adityanath government in the field of electronic manufacturing. State Minister and spokesman Siddhartha Nath Singh said that the picture was entirely different four years ago, when no one could have even imagined setting up a factory to make mobile handsets in the state. In 2014, only 6 crore mobile handsets were manufactured in the country, which increased to 11 crore in 2015-16 and a 17.5 crore in 2016-17.

Vivo’s factory, coming up in the Yamuna Expressway Development Authority area, is expected to start producing 12 crore mobile handsets alone soon. Besides Vivo, Oppo Mobile is setting up its factory in Greater Noida at the cost of Rs 2,000 crore to manufacture smartphones. Similarly, Holitech India is setting up a mobile phone display unit in Greater Noida itself. Lava Electronics has established its factory in Noida and is manufacturing mobile handsets there. Samsung set up its factory for mobile phone manufacturing in Noida last year. Formi Trading is setting up a factory to make mobile handsets in Greater Noida and KHY Electronics India in Noida. Chinese company Sunwoda Electronics has also shown interest in setting up a factory to manufacture smartphones, lithium batteries and plastic mobile cases in Greater Noida. The companies being set up in Uttar Pradesh will be meeting more than half of the demand for mobile handsets in the country.n