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ELECTRONICS In order to promote the electronics manufacturing
sector in the country and to make India a global
electronics manufacturing hub, the present
MANUFACTURING, government has taken strategic steps and taken
several initiatives. To make India a global hub for
electronic system design and manufacturing, the
THE PILLAR OF Government of India notified the National Electronics
Policy, in 2019 and set a production target of $400
billion in electronic manufacturing by 2025. Leading
AATMANIRBHAR India's growth in electronics manufacturing includes
mobile phones, IT hardware, TV audio, and LED

BHARAT lighting. The electronic sector is being strengthened
as the base pillar of a new AatmaNirbhar Bharat by
connecting it with the vision of the development of the
country i.e. Digital India.

Electronics Manufacturing Cluster 1.0
followed by Electronics Manufacturing
Cluster 2.0 launched in which applications
can be made till March 2023.
Incubation Centres are set up in collaboration
with State Governments to promote
Research & Development in innovation-
driven electronics system design and
manufacturing.
Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Large
Scale Electronics Manufacturing to provide
4-6% incentive to phone manufacturing and
assembling, marketing, and packaging.
Financial assistance is given in the value
chain of electronic products i.e. electronic
components, semiconductors, display fabric
units, and specialized sub-assembling.
IT Hardware includes Laptops, Tablets, All
in One PCs and Servers under Production
Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI).
National Centres of Excellence for different
fields have been set up at IIT Bombay, IIT
Madras, and IIT Kanpur.
ACHIEVEMENTS
India's share in global electronics
manufacturing was 1.3% in 2012, which has
increased to 8% in 2021-2022.
PRODUCTION AND EXPORT OF ELECTRONIC Electronic manufacturing to contribute
GOODS IN THE LAST THREE YEARS around 4% to India's total GDP in FY 2021-22.

Till 2014, there were two mobile
Year Production Export manufacturing units in the country, which has

2018-19 4,58,006 65,779 increased to 200 mobile manufacturing units
and components in the country. The country
2019-20 5,33,550 87,169 manufactured 32 crore mobile phones in
2021-2022, up from 6 crore eight years ago.
2020-21 5,33,670 82,645

*figures in crore
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