Handset manufacturing industry expects to hire 50\,000 direct employees by December

Mumbai: The handset manufacturing industry expects to recruit some 50,000 direct employees by December end, with the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme starting to move the hiring machines for the likes of Foxconn, Wistron, Samsung and local players such as Dixon and Lava.The development may come as a brief breather to a country which saw nearly five million salaried people losing their jobs in July, according to the Centre for Monitoring