Steel, auto, textile companies at heart of PLI scheme job target

The government's ambitious target of generating over 6 million jobs in five years from PLI scheme will hinge on five of the 14 specified sectors reaching the magic numbers

The government’s ambitious target of generating over 6 million jobs in five years from the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme will hinge on five of the 14 specified sectors reaching the magic numbers.

The five sectors are textiles, speciality steels, white goods such as ACs and LED TVs, autos and auto components and high-tech mobile device manufacturing.

Based on the commitments made by the companies (on which the government has based its targets), these five sectors will account for  53 per cent of the jobs that need to be generated through direct and indirect employment.

More importantly, mobile device manufacturing alone, with 200,000 direct