{"id":10232,"date":"2018-07-10T00:27:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T00:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2018\/07\/10\/pm-modi-opens-worlds-largest-cellphone-factory-in-nodia\/"},"modified":"2018-07-10T00:27:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T00:27:39","slug":"pm-modi-opens-worlds-largest-cellphone-factory-in-nodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2018\/07\/10\/pm-modi-opens-worlds-largest-cellphone-factory-in-nodia\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi opens world\u2019s largest cellphone factory in Nodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">The world\u2019s biggest mobile factory was launched in Noida near Delhi on Monday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The unit will have a capacity of fabricating 120 million phones a year &#8212; ranging from low-end smartphones that cost under $100 to the company\u2019s flagship S9 model. It will build 10 million phones a month, 70 per cent of which will be earmarked for domestic usage, NDTV reported.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Already 40 crore Indians own smartphones, 32 crore people use broadband, the Prime Minister said in his address at the event. The 30 per cent phones for export will help place the country in the Global market, he added.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">\u201cThis step today would lend pace to Make in India, apart from empowering citizens&#8230; This is matter of pride for Uttar Pradesh and India,\u201d said PM Modi, who has been pushing foreign firms to set up plants in the country.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Last year, the government imposed taxes on import of key smartphone components as part of a plan to make India a electronics-manufacturing hub to boost growth and create tens of millions of new jobs.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">\u201cSamsung has provided employment to approximately 70,000 people, the new plant will provide employment to 1000 more,\u201d the Prime Minister pointed out.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">PM Modi and the South Korean president travelled to Noida for the Samsung factory launch on the Delhi Metro.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">In photos tweeted by PM Modi, the two leaders were seen chatting on the metro, the Akshardham temple visible in the window behind them.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">Last year, India overtook the US to become the world\u2019s second-largest smartphone market after China. There will be 780 million connected smartphones in 2021, compared with 359 million in 2016, according to a study by Cisco Systems.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s biggest mobile factory was launched in Noida near Delhi on Monday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The unit will have a capacity of fabricating 120 million phones a year &#8212; ranging from low-end smartphones that cost under $100 to the company\u2019s flagship S9 model. It will build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}