Foxconn crisis shows one of the many challenges Apple faces in India

The recent crisis at vendor Foxconn's factory highlights one of the many challenges the US major faces as it seeks an unprecedented scale-up in hiring over the next five years

Can India build mini-cities to support a large workforce dominated by young women who work in

massive factories that are being built to churn out mobile devices and electronic products for global markets?  That’s a reality Apple Inc and its vendors are confronting in their bid to meet commitments under the government’s ambitious production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for mobile devices.    

The challenges were highlighted starkly last week when one of Apple’s major vendors, Foxconn Hon Hai, was put “on probation” by the US major after a protest by women workers living in dormitories at the Taiwanese company’s plant near Chennai, forcing