PLI Target: Domestic mobile production needs a China hand

Contract manufacturers of Apple like Vistron and Foxcon, Samsung, as well as local device makers like Lava, Macromax, among others, have urged the government to expedite the process of granting visas to Chinese engineers and technicians who are required in India to set up their new units for handset manufacturing which is crucial for them to meet their production targets under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme rolled out last year.

Though the device makers who have been selected under the PLI scheme are appreciative of the efforts of Indian embassy in Beijing in trying to fast-track such specific visa requests by Chinese engineers, they said the matter needs to be seen in a strategic manner by policy-makers as it is for the success of the PLI scheme.