US-headquartered e-commerce giant Amazon on Tuesday announced plans to commence manufacturing electronic devices, including Fire TV stick, in India, by the end of this year. This will be the company’s first Amazon manufacturing line in India.

In a blog post, Amazon said it will commence its manufacturing efforts with contract manufacturer Cloud Network Technology, a subsidiary of Foxconn in Chennai, and start production later this year.

The announcement was made after a virtual meeting between Union Minister for Communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad and Amazon’s Global Senior Vice-President and Country Head for India Amit Agarwal

The Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad took to Twitter and the homegrown social media platform Koo, to make the announcement. "Held a very good conversation with @AmitAgarwal and @Chetankrishna of @amazonIN today. Delighted to share that soon Amazon will commence manufacturing of electronics products like FireTV stick in India," Prasad said.

Further, Amazon also has announced its plans to begin manufacturing Amazon Devices in India. In a blogpost, the company said that it will commence its manufacturing efforts with contract manufacturer Cloud Network Technology, a subsidiary of Foxconn in Chennai and start production later this year. As per the blog, the device manufacturing programme will be able to produce hundreds of thousands of Fire TV Stick devices every year. Amazon will continuously evaluate scaling capacity to additional marketplaces or cities depending on the domestic demand, it added.

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