The workforce at Foxconn's smart phone manufacturing facility in Sri City, currently the only Indian facility run by the Taiwanese electronics manufacturing major, has crossed 10,000 people in a matter of 16 months.

With India's potential market size pegged at 125 million mobile phones in the current year, Foxconn's relentless capacity addition at Sri City only demonstrates the kind of job creation potential mobile phone segment holds in coming days in the country. Foxconn had started its smart phone assembly plant in a 40,000 square-foot facility in May 2015 at Sri ...