Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid the foundation of India-s first Mobile Open Exchange Zone MOX at World Trade Centre, Noida, at a ground breaking ceremony here which saw the launch of 81 investment projects worth over Rs 60,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh.

The Uttar Pradesh government had earlier this year signed an MoU with World Trade Center, Noida, to develop a -tech zone- as a nucleus of the Mobile Open Exchange Zone MOX. The prime minister in his address said India was being recognised as a mobile phone manufacturing hub. The country had become the second largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world.