India-made Laptops Cross 50% Local Value

The company will begin in-house production of laptops and telecom gear

- Shouvik Das

Haryana-headquartered original electronics designer and manufacturer VVDN Technologies, on Friday, inaugurated an assembly line to make laptops locally, and a facility to produce components for telecommunications and networking devices.

The new units, coupled with VVDN's in-house designing capability, will make this the first time that more than 50% of the cost of making a laptop will contribute to revenue generated from India.

In an interview with Mint, Puneet Agarwal, chief executive of VVDN Technologies, said that with its new local manufacturing efforts, the company is seeing 40% of the cost of making a laptop contributing to domestic revenue. "All of these efforts contribute towards adding 10-40% to domestic value addition. We are already rolling out laptops from our assembly line, where 40% of the revenue accounts for domestic value addition," he said.