The Cabinet has approved production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme worth Rs 12,
The Cabinet has approved production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme worth Rs 12,195 crore for telecom equipment manufacturing.
The decision was taken to offset the imports of telecom equipment worth more than Rs 50,000 crore and reinforce it with “Made in India” products both for domestic markets and exports.
This approval comes in wake of very encouraging success of PLI related to mobile and component manufacturing, which was announced in April 2020 during the height of Covid pandemic, the government said in a release.
The government expects that the scheme will lead to Rs 2.4 trillion incremental production of telecom equipment in the country in the next five years and will bring an investment of more than Rs 3,000 crore and generate direct and indirect employment.
The government said, the cabinet decisions will be a boost to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat and make India a global hub of telecom equipment manufacturing including for next generation 5G…
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