A novel electronic policy soon: Lokesh Nara

The Capital News

Nara Lokesh, the Minister for Education, Information Technology (IT), and Electronics, who promised during the recent elections to create 2 million jobs for the youth, is actively working towards fulfilling this commitment. As part of the exercise, the IT and Electronics Minister had a prolonged meeting with the representatives of Foxconn. The Minister gave a warm reception to the Foxconn representatives by personally welcoming them at his residence in Undavalli. During the meeting Lokesh explained in detail to them about the available resources in the State for setting up their units and also the steps taken during the period from 2014 to 2019 to attract investments to the State besides the IT companies that have set up their units in the State. Lokesh had informed them, in detail, as to how the Kia Motors company was invited to the State during the period which he termed as a case study.

Nara Lokesh informed them that a novel electronic policy will soon be formulated. Maintaining that with the initiative taken by the Chief Minister, Chandrababu Naidu, several companies, including Foxconn, had set up their units in the State during 2014 to 2019 period, he reminded them that 14,000 jobs were provided for women. “Since you are planning to expand your activities across India, I want you to establish, not just one more unit, but a mega manufacturing city in the State. We will extend all cooperation for this,” the IT and Electronics Minister told the delegation and said that the target of the State Government is to provide 20 lakh jobs to the youth. He expressed confidence that Foxconn will play a major role in this considering their track record earlier. “Whatever assistance you need for the establishment of a mega manufacturing city I will personally look after that and we will formulate a special plan for this,” Mr Lokesh assured the team.

The Indian representative of Foxconn, Mr V Lee, praised the initiative being taken by Mr Chandrababu Naidu in attracting investments to the State. Regretting that the company had faced certain difficulties in the State in the past five years, he said that the company had a very warm relationship with Andhra Pradesh. Stating that Foxconn has several units across the globe and has plans to expand its activities in the country, the company representative said that a decision will soon be taken after holding discussions with the respective authorities of the State Government. The Foxconn Indian representative said that the company is ready to set up electric vehicles manufacturing unit, semiconductors, digital health and manufacturing components units in Andhra Pradesh.

The Foxconn representatives, in principle, agreed to invest in the State and provide large scale employment to the youth. Mr Lokesh asked them to begin their exercise at the earliest possible. Besides Mr V Lee the Indian representative of Foxconn, the Director of Foxconn Chairman’s office Mr Senthil Kumar, the Deputy Director Mr Bharat Dandi, the Manager Mr Vector Chen, the associate manager Hannah Wang, IT and Electronics Principal Secretary, Mr Saurabh Gaur and others participated in the meeting.