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Centre to offer up to 25% subsidy for electronics components mfg
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
|April 09, 2025
An incentive scheme for local manufacturing of a range of electronic components from smartphone displays to battery cells to camera modules was notified on Tuesday by the central government, giving a fillip to manufacturers looking to boost domestic capacity through greenfield or brownfield investments.
NEW DELHI:
The Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) will start accepting applications from industry stakeholders within the next three weeks, following a brief consultation period on how the scheme will be made accessible to the industry, Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said at a media briefing on Tuesday.
This story is from the April 09, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Bengaluru.
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