IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw declared victory over “naysayers,” who he said had been “proven wrong” over skepticism on the Union government’s push on electronics manufacturing. File.
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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Monday (November 17, 2025) announced the approval of seventeen new projects under the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS), where firms will receive incentive payouts pegged to their turnover. The projects have a cumulative proposed value of ₹7,172 crore. This is the second tranche of announcements, after seven projects were announced earlier this month.
“The basic objective [of the ECMS] is really to deepen the value chain in India,” IT Secretary S. Krishnan said, “to ensure that more electronics manufacturing takes place in India in terms of components so that with a deepened value chain, even as a part of a global value chain … we have deep enough roots that tomorrow if even our labour costs rise, it’s not as if the industry will move out. We have an innate and inbuilt competitiveness.”
Nine of the approved projects will manufacture multi-layered printed circuit boards (PCBs), three will manufacture camera modules for phones and other devices, two will manufacture optical transceivers (used in data centres and telecom networks to interface between fiber optic cables and connected hardware) and the other components to be manufactured in one project each are connectors, oscillators, enclosures.
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw declared victory over “naysayers,” who he said had been “proven wrong” over skepticism on the Union government’s push on electronics manufacturing. Mr. Krishnan said that past incentive schemes’ mistakes wouldn’t be repeated: “This scheme can’t be a spotter’s paradise,” he said, referring to firms who sat on approvals for past programmes, without getting work done in time. “There is a limited pot of money, ₹22,000 crores in all, and there are 249 applicants,” he said. “We’ll clear them all, but who gets the money depends on how quickly you execute.”
The projects approved on Monday are located in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Goa, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, and Madhya Pradesh. The government said it estimated ₹1,09,517 crore in production value would be generated through these projects, and 11,808 direct jobs would be created.
Published – November 17, 2025 03:34 pm IST
