T.N. dominates third tranche of ECMS in jobs, investments

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Friday approved 22 new proposals under the Electronics Components Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS). Tamil Nadu Industries Minister T.R.B. Rajaa, in a post on X, said: “Across 22 projects approved in this [third] tranche, a total of 34,061 job opportunities have been created. Of these, Tamil Nadu alone accounts for 23,451 jobs from just three projects – TATA Electronics brings 1,500, Motherson adds 5,741, Foxconn contributes 16,210 high-end jobs.” He said that Foxconn’s investment (Yuzhan Technology) in Tamil Nadu, approved under ECMS, has emerged as the single largest approval. Unlike the first two tranches where State-wise and project-wise investment numbers were made public, this time only state wise job numbers and product-wise investment numbers have been released. He added that as per data, enclosures investments was at ₹27,166 crore, and all three enclosures investments were from Tamil Nadu. “So, of the ₹41,863 crore worth of investments approved in the third tranche, a massive ₹27,166 crore via Motherson, Foxconn, and Tata Electronics, is from Tamil Nadu alone,” he said.