Make in India: Govt aims to push mobile manufacturing with new policy

In 2016-­17, total value of mobile phones to be produced in India is likely to reach Rs 90,000 cr

Turning back on a decade and a half's time starting when cheaper mobile phones from abroad entered India's domestic market, the government is now gearing up to make India a manufacturing hub for electronics and especially mobile phones.

Under the phased manufacturing program (PMP) developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the government wants to jump start the large scale manufacturing of one the largest selling consumer goods in the country — mobile phones. 

After India signed the World Trade Organisation’s ITA-1 pact, it became cheaper to import components as well as finished goods (Information Technology Agreement),