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- The Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)will inaugurate India’s first lithium cell manufacturing facility at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.
About plant
- The state-of-the-art facility has been set up by the Chennai based Munoth Industries Limited with an outlay of Rs. 165 crores.
- The facility is located in one of the two Electronics Manufacturing Clusters set up in the temple town, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015.
- The installed capacity of the plant at present is 270 Mwh and can produce 20,000 cells of 10Ah capacity daily.
- These cells are used in power banks and this capacity is around 60 percent of India’s present requirement.
- Currently India imports complete requirements of lithium-ion cells primarily from China, South Korea, Vietnam and Hong Kong.
- Cells for other consumer electronics like Mobile Phones, hearable and wearable devices will also be produced.
Significance
- This plant will be a step in the direction of realising Prime Minister Modi’s vision of making India the global hub of electronic manufacturing.
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Source:PIB
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