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Huawei Omitted from Indian List of Firms with Local Factories
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China's Huawei is protesting after it was left off a list compiled by the Indian government of telecoms equipment suppliers with local assembly plants.
The Department of Telecoms list includes vendors such as Nokia Siemens but does not mention the Chinese firm.
"Huawei India is dismayed and disappointed to learn that despite its sincere and earnest efforts to localise the manufacturing capabilities, its name does not figure in the list of domestic manufacturers circulated by the DoT," Huawei said in a letter to the trade body, the COIA.
The government has encouraging the mobile networks to source more of their network infrastructure locally, and is formulating plans to make it mandatory in the future that a set percentage is manufactured in the country.
Huawei has an R&D centre in India which is its biggest outside China, employing around 2,000 people. In previous statements, the company had said that its India operations have been drawing overall investments of $150 million/year over the past decade and it has a total employee base of 6,000 people of which 95% are Indians, while creating indirect employment for 20,000 additional people through its partner programme.
On the web: Business Line
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