'Make in India' a misnomer? PSUs, states buying Made in China, says report

A parliamentary panel has said the Narendra Modi government’s flagship Make in India programme has failed to ensure that the Centre, state governments and public sector undertakings (PSUs) purchase products manufactured in India, and these entities have continued to buy Chinese goods. 

In its report on the ‘Impact of Chinese goods on Indian industry’, tabled in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, the parliamentary standing committee on commerce noted that Indian industry was getting decimated by China dumping its cheap products in India.

The committee, headed by Shiromani Akali Dal Rajya Sabha member Naresh Gujral, recommended to the government that it give “complete