New Delhi, April 19 -- Manesar, Haryana-headquartered original electronics designer and manufacturer VVDN Technologies, on Friday, inaugurated an assembly line to make laptops locally, and a facility to produce components for telecommunications and networking devices.

The new facilities, coupled with VVDN's in-house designing capability, will make this the first time that more than 50% of the cost of making a laptop will contribute to revenue generated from India.

In an interview withMint, Puneet Agarwal, chief executive of VVDN Technologies, said that with its new local manufacturing efforts, the company is already seeing 40% of the cost of making a laptop contributing to domestic revenue. "All of these efforts contribute towards addin...