Govt announces phased manufacturing programme for mobile handsets

Domestic value addition in manufacturing of smartphones to go up from 10% to 26%

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Thursday, announced a Phased Manufacturing Programme (PMP) with the objective of promoting depth in the domestic manufacturing of cellular mobile handsets.

This programme will be rolled out over a period of time and has been prepared keeping in view the state of the design and manufacturing ecosystem in the country. The goverment is focusing on ensuring that,  through appropriate fiscal and financial incentives, indigenous manufacturing of cellular phones and various sub-assemblies can be promoted over a period of time.

PMP has been notified with the objective of substantially increasing the domestic value addition for