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India aims to move up value chain in mobile phone manufacturing

Published Tue, Nov 22, 2016 · 09:50 PM

Bangalore

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi has struggled in his campaign to bring more manufacturing jobs to India. But now, he has a solid incentive for technology companies to build more plants in his country: the fastest-growing smartphone market in the world.

India currently contributes only about 6 per cent of the value of phones sold in the country…

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