Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Noida today to inaugurate world’s largest smartphone factory. It is also to be noted that this is South Korean’s President first visit to the country. Both the leaders will be landing together in Noida to visit the plant.
Samsung’s 35-acre Samsung Electronics facility at Sector 81 in Noida, has caught everybody’s attention, it is one of the largest smartphone factory in the world.
At a cost of ? 4,500 crore, the Samsung’s Noida plant can produce 12 crore mobile phones every year, ranging from low-end smartphones to its flagship Samsung Galaxy S9, and will create 15,000 local jobs. Under intense competition from Apple Inc. and Chinese rivals like Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi, Gionee and Lenovo, Samsung plans to make India its export hub for countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Samsung has firstly opened its first electronics manufacturing facilities in the early 1990s, the plant started by manufacturing TVs in 1997. The present mobile phone manufacturing unit was added in 2005.
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For PM Modi’s visit, the authorities are making tight security arrangements as his last visit to Noida in 2017 was marred by a breach.
PM Narendra Modi had visited Noida for the inauguration of the Metro’s Magenta Line in December 2017.
Besides the smartphone, consumer electronics like refrigerators and flat panel televisions will also be manufactured at Noida plant.
In 2012, Samsung became the leader in mobile phones in the country and the Noida facility rolled out the first-ever “Galaxy S3” device.
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