Make In India' Programme

Government of India has launched the 'Make in India' Programme to promote manufacturing in India and develop it as a hub for manufacturing, design and innovation Certain important steps taken to gear up manufacturing include (i) creation of an investor facilitation cell (ii) dissemination of information on twenty five priority sectors on 'Make in India's web-portal (https://bsmedia.business-standard.comwww.makeinindia.com) along with details of FDI Policy, National Manufacturing Policy, Intellectual Property Rights, Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor and other National Industrial Corridors (iii) issuance of Ordinance to make land acquisition easier for important projects (iv) a number of items taken off the licensing requirement from Defence products' list, etc. and (v) Sector wise plan of action has been prepared with time lines of one year and three years.