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India now the second-largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world: Ravi Shankar Prasad

From just 2 factories, we now have 200 manufacturing units. India's electronic manufacturing was worth Rs 1,90,366 crore in 2014, today it's Rs 4,58,000 crore, Prasad added.

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New Delhi:  At the launch of the ‘Electronics Manufacturing Schemes’ in New Delhi, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday said that the country has emerged as the “second-largest manufacturer of mobile phones” in the world and added that “the production of mobile phones has gone up to approximately 33 crore in 2019-20.”

“From just 2 factories, we now have 200 manufacturing units. India’s electronic manufacturing was worth Rs 1,90,366 crore in 2014, today it’s Rs 4,58,000 crore. India’s global share in electronics has risen from 1.3% in 2012 to 3 per cent in 2018. Electronic production has surpassed exports,” he said. He also said that the Centre is working towards constructing a “robust” manufacturing ecosystem in the country.

“PM Narendra Modi has given a clarion call for Aatma Nirbhar Bharat (a self-reliant India). In view of that, the government is working towards to build up a robust manufacturing ecosystem in India.”

“There is a higher leverage given to hardware manufacturing in India in the past few years, which has emerged as an important pillar of the Make In India and Digital India initiatives. Self-reliant India is not an India of isolation and its not an inward-looking India. It is an India which develops an ecosystem as a robust asset to the global economy,” he added.

“The National Policy on Electronics 2019 aims to position India as a global hub for Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) by encouraging the country to develop core components, enabling the industry to compete globally,” he further said.

The Union Minister further announced three schemes for the sector: Production linked incentive, component manufacturing scheme and cluster scheme. He further stated that the Centre will ensure that the country emerges as a leading electronic manufacturing hub in the coming years.

“Global and local companies will work together to help India grow to achieve this goal,” he said.


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4 COMMENTS

  1. Completely in agreement what has been stated here.
    We should encourage corporate biggies to get into all segments with full support to all those consumer segments where we have dependencies on outside market…like cars, mobile, electronic goods etc…we should charge higher import duties or structurally put across a profit sharing model beyond a certain point to the respective company…

    The education system should be revamped and align things accordingly…every school should be built through a common education parameters where farming, weaving and all aspects are part of basic school curriculum…else we will be always remaining as pawn to developed countries as ever and as always so far…we will never be able to self reliant..as we aspire to be.

  2. Hard to believe what is being communicated through this news. 90 per cent of mobiles that are rolling out from India are primarily Chinese variety as China have set up manufacturing facilities here. Almost all crucial hardwares are imported from China, assembled in these manufacturing units and then rebranded as ‘make/made in India’. Where is India’s own made mobiles?! Few years ago brands like Micromax, Lava, etc used to fake consumers by saying such products were ‘swadeshy’, but in reality everything was from China. These companies used to have only marketing offices in big cities and towns and used various channel’s of PR extensively just to tell the consumers that their mobiles were Indian made, which was not. Later, under pressure they opened up manufacturing facility in India but it was only binging all their hardwares from China and only assembling here. Today, these companies are out of the mobile business following entry of big Chinese players like Oppo, Vivo, One Plus, Mi, Real me, etc. When we say ‘make/made in India’, we want to see all mobile phones are cent percent indigenously made from A to Z with local talents and expertise. But sadly, what the minister has been saying gets blurred with the reality.
    Thanks

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