Facilities: Apple to build hostel for 1 lakh women employees, ready by March

Apple, the American company that makes the iPhone, is going to provide hostel facilities to 1 lakh women who work in its factory. For that, the company is working on a big plan along with the vendors.

This hostel to be built on PPP model will be completed by March 2025. A hostel of Foxconn, Apple's largest vendor in the country, is nearing completion. Out of which 18,720 units are under construction. 18,112 units are also under construction in Sriperumbudur. Foxconn currently has 41 thousand employees. In which there are 25 market women.

This is the largest initiative to build or lease such a large number of hostels by a single factory in India's industrial history. Currently, Apple has become the private sector ecosystem that provides the largest number of blue collar jobs in the country. The company will employ 2 lakh people (currently 1.75 lakh) by the end of this financial year. In which more than 70% may be women aged 18 to 14 years. Currently, 80 thousand employees are working in 3 iPhone manufacturing units of Tamil Nadu's Foxconn, Pegatron and Karnataka's Tata Electronics.

Major vendor Tata Electronics is building 40,000 houses near its twin factories in Hosur, Tamil Nadu, to provide accommodation and food facilities to such a large number of women employees. In this Tata factory, iPhone components are made and 15 thousand people have got employment.

Tata is also building another factory here, which will start by the end of the year. This will be the iPhone in another factory. Recruitment for that has already started. Meanwhile, another Apple vendor, CellComp, makes power adapters, enclosures and magnetic components for Apple. The company will buy around 4 thousand houses being built by SPR Construction in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu.

This model is successful in China-Vietnam Apple has built such hostels in China-Vietnam. In which the efficiency of women employees has improved and their safety has also been ensured. More than 4.20 lakh employees work and live in The Schengen Complex in China. It is also called Foxconn City. 3 lakh employees work and live in Zhengzhou.