Firms may look beyond mobiles to meet ambitious electronics goal

The last of the 2-part series analyses the challenges in ramping up non-mobile device manufacturing

The government’s objective to grow the country’s electronics hardware sector to $400 billion by 2025 rests primarily on the plan to make India into a global mobile device manufacturing hub. But to meet that ambitious target, it also needs to ramp up production and exports in other segments, namely, consumer, industrial, automotive electronics, and computer hardware, among others.

However, since non-mobile device electronics is heavily dependent on imports, the forex outgo on non-mobile electronic hardware has shot up to $37 billion. What aggravates the problem is the lacklustre export numbers: Put mobile devices out of the picture and India’s electronics