India, May 3 -- HMD Global, maker of the Nokia brands of mobile phones, aims to make India a manufacturing hub for its phone exports.

"Our aim is to have India as a manufacturing hub for exports. And we will also do smartphones once the products are launched across the world. Currently, we are exporting from India to the Middle East but the scope will only expand," Business Standard quoted Ravi Kanwar, vice president, India & APAC of HMD Global, as saying.

This comes just days after HMD Global launched its own brand of smartphones in India, including Pulse, Pulse Plus and Pulse Pro.

The company began exporting its Nokia 105 Classic feature phone to the Middle East and Africa over the past six months, shipping 6 Mn phones to these regio...