Very soon India may start manufacturing Apple MacBooks and iPads as the tech giant looks to broad-base its manufacturing. The government is also planning to increase the scope of the production-linked incentive scheme for IT hardware to nearly Rs 20,000 crore as against the existing outlay of Rs 7,380 crore.
As per news report, a source in the IT Ministry said that the government is keen to grow Apple’s manufacturing ecosystem in India, given the tech giant’s ‘China-plus-one strategy’.
“We have tasted success with the iPhone production as Apple’s all the top manufacturers – Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron – are now making smartphones worth billions of dollars in the country. The next step for us is to get the production of MacBook and other products such as iPad in India,” the news report cited a source in the ministry.
The IT ministry has sent a proposal for enhancement of the scheme, as of now the proposal is now in the hands of finance and some other related ministries according to the report.
