New Delhi, July 4 -- iPhone maker Foxconn Technology Group, the biggest assembler of the flagship smartphone of Apple in India, has reportedly been asking its Chinese workers in the south Asian country to return to their homes.

Foxconn, a key manufacturing partner to Apple, has in its bid to diversify its supply chain beyond China, recalled over 300 Chinese engineers and technicians from its India assembly plants over the past two months.

Apple's largest iPhone producer has reportedly ordered hundreds of its India-based Chinese workers to return to their native China but for unspecified reasons.