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China's top mobile phone maker
Xiaomi is looking to make devices in India, possibly using the idle plant of
Nokia at Chennai. The company, the world's third-largest mobile phone vendor
and one of the fastest-growing, has said it is scouting for partners for making
phones in India, its second-biggest market.
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"We are beginning to explore
opportunities for manufacturing in India," Manu Jain, operations head for
Xiaomi in India, told TOI. "India is a big market and we would like to be
close to our customers."
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If the plans fructify, this will
be the first instance of a top Chinese device maker manufacturing products in
India and would boost PM Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' campaign. Indian
cellphone maker Micromax, which earlier only manufactured in China, started
making smartphones in India too from April this year.
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In the second quarter of 2014,
Xiaomi upstaged Korean giant Samsung from the top position in China, the
world's biggest smartphone market. The company currently imports phones in
India from its suppliers in China and has been able to sell about 8 lakh
devices here since the brand's launch in July this year.
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Jain, who was the co-founder of
e-tailer Jabong before coming to Xiaomi, however, did not confirm any plans
related to Nokia's idle Chennai plant. The plant did not go to Microsoft as
part of its deal to buy the Finnish phone maker's global devices operations due
to pending litigations. "We have not looked at it," Jain said, when
asked about its interest in Nokia's India plant, refusing to make any
confirmation on the matter.
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