Electronic components supplier Foxconn on Wednesday said that it will expand its product categories (components) for personal computers, set-top boxes and Internet of Things (IoTs), apart from supplying products only for mobile phones and television.
“It is our commitment and desire to do. If the policy frameworks, manufacturing programme and the environment is enabling and fostering, absolutely (manufacture in India), we have to do for India,” Josh Foulger, Country Head and Managing Director, Foxconn India, told reporters here.
The company also said India needs better governance and policies so that ecosystem for such industry could be easily set up.
“The Centre and the State governments need to be in tandem because at the end of the day, implementation happens at the State government level…at the ground level also because there is a lot of variables involved, thousands of people are working and since it is a complex matter, we do need appropriate functioning at the ground level,” Foulger said.
Speaking on the sidelines of the first China-India Mobile phone and Component Manufacturing Summit, he said the industry needs support from the Centre in each step to build the ecosystem at the earliest.
Foulger also said that lot of changes have happened since the new government has come.
“Our plans are very much in sync with government’s task force targets,” he said, adding that within the last 12 months, there have been 25,000-30,000 jobs created in various locations in India as some new companies have come to manufacture.
He said non-silicon (other than semi conductor/ chip)-based product manufacturers are also coming in, which will fill the gaps in building the ecosystem for producing mobile phones in India.
“Non-silicon based components and that will bring lot of new jobs. We will approach the government to follow up on this step by step to get the ecosystem in place,” he added.
He said if everything is in place then the velocity of this supply chain will be 100x of the auto industry right now.