Officials in the report emphasised that India’s workforce is capable of filling the gap, with plans reportedly underway for hiring between 500 and 1,000 local employees in the coming weeks

Foxconn Technology Group has asked hundreds of Chinese engineers and technicians to return home from its iPhone factories in India, dealing a blow to Apple Inc.’s manufacturing push in the South Asian country.

Apple is one of those companies, having started shifting part of its iPhone production to India four years ago. However, Foxconn, the company that makes most of Apple's devices, has done something that may put this diversification strategy in peril,