Samsung to invest $117 million in southern Indian facility, minister says


A Samsung logo is displayed in a supermarket in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 29, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

(Reuters) -South Korea's Samsung Electronics will invest 10 billion rupees ($117.09 million) in its facility in southern India, a minister said on Friday, months after the plant faced worker protests following employee suspensions.

The plant near Chennai has been in the spotlight in recent months after workers staged a sit-in over employee suspensions in February — the second major labour dispute there in under six months.

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