By Wen-Yee Lee

TAIPEI (Reuters) -India does not expect significant disruption to Foxconn’s operations in the country after the iPhone assembler ordered some employees from China to return home over the past few months, a top Indian government official said this week.

“Although some of the Chinese workers had to leave because they were asked to return, operations did not really suffer significantly,” S. Krishnan, secretary of India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, told reporters in Taipei, referring to Foxconn’s India operations.

“Foxconn has been in their plant near Chennai for the last five years and a new plant is coming up near Bengaluru. So they were able to manage with some of the workers there, some people from Taiwan, and some people from the United States,”

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