India offers tax concessions to Apple to expand production: official

Ravi Shankar Prasad, the union minister for Electronics and IT, said government officials were in touch with Apple and other mobile phone manufacturers for expanding facilities and setting up new plants.

NEW DELHI: India has offered to allow Apple Inc to import mobile handset components intended for use in local manufacturing tax free, a top government official said. 

The tax concessions will be subject to the condition of increasing local value addition over a period of time.