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Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw thanked the Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha and Congress person Rahul Gandhi for “acknowledging the success” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Make-in-India programme connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025).
Mr. Vaishnaw was responding to a Facebook station by Mr. Gandhi, who was praising Karnataka’s concern ecosystem, going disconnected of a quality study connected tech steadfast Apple’s supplier Foxconn hiring thousands of workers for a mill successful Devanahalli.
“This is not conscionable a statistic,” but “transformative occupation creation,” Mr. Gandhi wrote, referring to the study that 30,000 workers were hired successful the installation successful specified months. “What makes it adjacent much almighty is that the portion is mostly women-led, with astir 80% women, astir aged 19-24, and for many, this is their archetypal job. Karnataka is mounting an illustration by creating an ecosystem wherever manufacturing tin turn astatine this standard and speed.”
Mr. Vaishnaw’s response, crediting Mr. Modi’s concern argumentation instead, added: “As you person noted, we are becoming a shaper system arsenic we instrumentality our PM’s vision.”
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Karnataka IT Minister Priyank Kharge separately credited the grounds reported ramp-up arsenic a effect of the State’s policies. “The ₹20,000 crore concern (in the manufacturing unit) dispersed crossed a 300-acre field is delivering beardown results,” Mr. Kharge wrote connected X.
“Karnataka is India’s starring ESDM (Electronics System Design and Manufacturing) concern hub and a large spot plan cluster,” Mr. Kharge wrote. “We present relationship for 50% of India’s physics merchandise companies, 40% of physics plan and 10% of electronics output. Anchored by our robust ESDM Policy, we are creating a powerhouse ecosystem for electronics plan and high-volume manufacturing.”
“Over 80% of accumulation (is) meant for exports, firmly plugging Karnataka into Apple’s planetary proviso chain,” the State Minister added.
