India’s Tamil Nadu in $4.4 bln deals with investors such as Tata, Pegatron

India's southern state of Tamil Nadu has signed investment pacts worth more than $4.39 billion with firms such as Apple suppliers Tata Electronics and Pegatron, as well as auto major Hyundai Motors, it said on Sunday. Apple is counting on India as the next big driver of its growth as the tech giant looks to move some production away from China, with Pegatron working towards a second factory in the country, where Tata Group last year began to assemble iPhones. Tata Electronics, a part of the Indian conglomerate, committed to invest 120.8 billion rupees for mobile phone assembly operations, the state government said during the signing of the agreements.